Library Utensils

Obviously, introducing a system like FingerLink will exceed library’s yearly budget several times. There is a cheaper alternatives. A library could offer patrons a variety of small utensils they could borrow to use in the reading room. Based on the picture above, a concept device that you can put on your pen to use for translating words found in the print book. In addition, it could be a simple pen that would let patrons make digital highlights. One condition – it should be done in a simplest possible way. Such library utensils would be useful for less tech- savvy library patrons or those who don’t use advanced apps (for instance the ones with OCR – optical character recognition) on their phones. 

Book Delivery Drone

To get the book from library, you can either go and find it, or you can let it find you. This belongs to unmanned flying machines, and just like Amazon drones can deliver the goods to customers, libraries could deliver the books to patrons. What unique about this technology is the system use hexacopters, drones with six rotors, to deliver ordered textbook. Now, the smart thing is that the drone can find you by the location of your smartphone, so there is no need to give a fixed address. Apart from that, just imagine when you are sitting in a reading room of the library which wants to get a book. Stay where you are, and use the app to order a book. The drone will come, just like this one. Pull out the book from the box and put the one or ones you don’t need any longer. The drone will place them they belong. 

Library Guidemark & guide

This is one of the advance technology used in our library. An interesting concept from a Chinese design company Toout. This little tiny device is in the first place a regular bookmark. But on top of that it also has features that could make using the library much easier. First of all the device would be a perfect companion when navigating through the library , by giving turn –by- turn directions to the book the patron wants. The device could also keep track of all borrowed books, as well as remind the user of the return dates. Finding a book easily without knowing the Dewey Decimal Classification system? Sounds like good idea of where the library card could evolve.

Intelligent Return Trolley

This technology is intelligent return trolley is the fastest way to check in library items. Intelligent shelves detect and identify all items that are placed between the RFID bookstands. When situated near the entrance of the library, it is easily accessible for a patron. He places the books on the shelf and the items are automatically checked-in in your Library Management System. All the items are directly available for the next patron to be borrowed. Consequently, over 25% of all books returned are checked-out on the same day. With this technology, returning an item does not take more than just placing one or more books on the library trolley. Anywhere. That’s it. No more queues, no more waiting in line. Through our direct link with your Library Management System, every item that is returned is automatically checked-in. No passes that need to be scanned. Just drop and go. This technology increase circulation and reduces the amount of time staff need to spend on reshelving.

SelfCheck Machine

This technology is 3M ShelfCheck System. This device give your patron to pay their fines and fees, quickly and easily at the self-checkout station. The self-pay fines and fees option offers a comprehensive solution that helps your library customers make the most of the 3M SelfCheck Systems. In addition to encouraging on-time returns and improving circulation, the self-pay fines and fees option gives staff the freedom to provide better, more personalised service and gives the library an additional source of revenue to support other valuable programs. This is an easy-to-use solution that can be seamlessly integrated with most 3M V-Series, R-Series and B-Series self-checkout systems.

Benefit

• ·         Expands the benefits of self-serivce
• ·         Increases circulation with improved fines and fees visibility
• ·         Increases revenue for library through fines and fees collecting
• ·         Allows more customer privacy during fines and fees payments
• ·          Frees up staff time
• ·          Easy-to-use on screen instructions maximise your payment options
• ·          Self-pay systems can be added as a retrofit to an existing V, R or B-Series or can be incorporated into the furniture design for new systems
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Digital Library Assistant

As a component of the 3M TM RFID System, this cordless, handheld device instantly reads 3MTM RFID Tags on library materials, turning shelf-reading, shelving, sorting, searching, weeding and exception-finding into routine tasks. Compact and easy to use, the Digital Library Assistant can hold information on more than one million items. The ergonomic design and swivel antenna maximize comfort and minimize stooping. No more bending or stretching to read high or low shelves. And because it simultaneously performs shelf-reading, searching and inven­tory scans, it can save time, increase productivity and discover errors that might otherwise go unnoticed. This device helps find data errors in circulation system records, helps find errors in bibliographic records such as incorrect barcodes, call numbers and

spine labels and provides a full range of functions for all libraries, including location tag processing if used. This device can also quickly identify items that were not properly checked out, and it instantly detects the security status of materials. Start actively managing your library collection today with the state-of-the-art Digital Library Assistant from 3M.

Digital Locker

The Lower ground floors provide a range of amenities to patron. Underground level 1 is an area for study and cultural exchange featuring a 24- hour reading room, book and journal stacks and an auditorium. Also within this area, there are over 1,000 digital lockers, providing secure storage facilities for both immediate and short term needs and longer periods. The lockers are set up to provide the patron with a range of options.  Lockers can be booked for 1, 3 or 6 months, and in this facility, the lockers on the top 3 rows are programmed for longer term hire.  The lockers on the other rows are available for short term, ad hoc booking, and can even be booked by individuals can arrange to share a locker. This system has proved to be enormously popular with students.