As part of the state program for the modernization of public libraries in St. Petersburg, RST-Invent LLC has successfully completed work on RFID automation of the processes of accounting, issuing and searching for publications in St. Petersburg public libraries.<\/strong><\/p>\n In the period from 2011 to 2014, more than 150 libraries in St. Petersburg were automated based on RFID. Among them is the Centralized Library System (CLS) of the Primorsky district, consisting of a central district department and 8 branches.<\/p>\n Before the CLS of the Primorsky district there were tasks that were planned to be solved using RFID:<\/p>\n The principle of operation is that a radiofrequency tag<\/a> is glued into each book, which has its own unique identifier that corresponds to a specific publication. All subsequent operations with books (reception, search, issuance, inventory) are carried out using reading equipment.<\/p>\n Also, the library card<\/a> has been replaced with an electronic one with integrated RFID tag. Outwardly, it resembles a plastic card, on which the owner\u2019s personal number is marked and belonging to the library that issued it. This ticket is serviced in any of the libraries of the Corporate Network of Public Libraries (CNPL) of St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n If earlier, when receiving and issuing books, a library employee had to manually fill out each form or scan a barcode, then with RFID it\u2019s enough to put books on a desktop reader<\/a>, the data about them will be displayed on the screen and written to the reader\u2019s electronic form.<\/p>\n\n