We are now tagging in four libraries: Central, EPS, Law and Education.

A team of two just started tagging the picture book collection at the Education Library and we anticipate moving more trolleys to Education in the future to speed up the conversion of the Education collection.

The EPS collection is almost entirely tagged, with just a small section on Level 2 to be completed. Likewise, the Law collection is almost entirely tagged with only the Commerce collection to be completed. Of course, this is a large collection but the tagging teams are making good progress as are the numerous people helping to get the collection up onto the shelves.

In the Central Library we are tagging on Levels 3 and 4. Joan has staff shelving the books being tagged from boxes on Level 4 as well as moving the PR books onto the new shelving on level 4 once they have been tagged. We are also looking to begin ‘security blasting’ the Central Collection this week, that is, activating the security features of the RFID tags in preparation for RFID going live. This is done using the retrospective tagging trolleys.

The new RFID equipment for the Central and EPS libraries, including the new gates, smartbin, self check machines and so on, has been delivered. Next week there will be training sessions from the vendor on using this new equipment (we are still awaiting more details).

Fiona T