Return Servers hit the Multnomah County Library system on Sunday, October 11. The library is switching their entire collection from bar code scanning to Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). This means faster scanning at check-out, the ability to scan whole shelves full of books in a single swipe and I'm sure many other features that I don't even know about. And we're here to help! We worked in teams of two, taking books off the shelf, putting a RFID sticker in the front cover, scanning the old bar code to load the information onto the new tag and putting them back on the shelf. In the better part of three hours, the four of us did 855 books. There are oh, I don't know, 175 times that figure of items in circulation in the Central library alone, but we're making steady progress. At least the group before us did the sheet music section! We were in foreign language, which helped us stay focused and kept us from getting distracted by interesting books... We'll be back soon to help - we're grateful for our libraries!
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