Radio Frequency Identification Technology for Logistics, Tagging and EPC

Bibliotheca expands service and support with Pitney Bowes

Friday, August 27, 2010

Bibliotheca Inc., provider of RFID solutions for libraries worldwide, announced collaboration with Pitney Bowes to expand the company’s geographical coverage and resources for serving library customers throughout the U.S.

As part of partnership, Pitney Bowes’s customer service professionals will be trained and certified by Bibliotheca to provide installation, on-site repair and maintenance, and technical support of Bibliotheca’s RFID library automation equipment. [end] 

Bibliotheca announced the recent large-scale installation of its RFID-based automated material handling solutions in one of Berlin’s major public libraries, the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Library.

The deployment includes Bibliotheca’s 400 series return and sorting system - ‘smartreturn’ and ‘smartsort’ - which offers sorting speeds of 2,400 item/hour. Additionally, Dietrich Bonhoeffer is able to offer patrons self-service checkout through the ‘smartserve’ 700.

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Bibliotheca and Intellident have announced a merger that would combine the two into one of the largest RFID companies in Europe. The union also includes Intellident’s French subsidiary Ident SAS.

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The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, New York has started using a self-checkout system that makes use of RFID technology, according to a local news report. In the past, if patrons wanted to check out a book or CD, they had to wait for a librarian to do it for them.

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Bibliotheca announced it is working with the Ottawa Public Library (OPL), and will soon begin converting its entire collection of 2.3 million items from bar code to RFID, spanning across 33 branches and two bookmobiles.

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