Science and technology are the primary productive forces, and technology is constantly changing our lives. With the improvement of people's living standards, the public's demand for spiritual culture is increasing day by day, and traditional libraries, as cultural dissemination platforms, are obviously unable to meet the huge borrowing needs of the public. The emergence of self-service book borrowing and returning machines can alleviate the work pressure of libraries to a certain extent. Library self-service borrowing and returning
The system breaks the traditional manual operation mode of librarians, allowing readers to borrow or return library materials by operating the self-service borrowing and returning equipment in the library, which is a purely self-service mode.
The development of library service models in China can be divided into three stages, namely the traditional manual borrowing and returning stage, the automated service stage, and the modern intelligent service stage. These stages have given rise to intelligent technologies and systems for self-service book borrowing and returning. The current mainstream self-service book borrowing and returning systems mainly have the following three modes.
Barcode+magnetic stripe mode
Pasting barcodes on books and attaching magnetic strips that can be recharged or demagnetized was the foundation for early self borrowing and returning of books. Its self-service borrowing and returning principle is to scan the barcode on the book with a barcode scanner, and at the same time, demagnetize the magnetic strip to complete the borrowing or returning of the book.
RFID recognition mode
RFID wireless radio frequency identification technology is currently the most mainstream way for libraries to achieve self-service borrowing and returning.
RFID self-service book borrowing and returning machine
It is possible to effectively identify books with
RFID electronic tags attached, quickly, accurately, and stably. At the same time, human-machine communication can be achieved through integrated touch display screens to complete book borrowing and returning operations. The data of books is connected to the library automation system through a dedicated interface, greatly improving the work efficiency of library staff and enhancing the sensory experience of readers.
mobile mode
With the development of communication network technology, smartphones have basically achieved comprehensive popularization. Mobile phones play an important role in people's "clothing, food, housing, and transportation". With the help of information technology such as QR code, the Internet of Things and mobile Internet, there are many ways to realize self-service borrowing. The distance between the library and readers is just the distance of a mobile phone screen. For example, combining barcode scanning with mobile scanning to achieve self-service borrowing and returning of books, or embedding
RFID chips into mobile phones to achieve self-service borrowing and returning of books. Through the self-service book borrowing app on mobile phones, devices with NFC modules can directly read and write
RFID tags, achieving more convenient self-service book borrowing and returning operations.
Library self-service borrowing and returning
The transformation brought by the system to traditional book management methods is epic. Although there are still certain limitations that cannot fully meet all the needs of librarians, with the development of technology, the emergence of the next generation of self-service borrowing and returning systems is expected in the future.
