The challenges confronted by the academic libraries and public libraries in terms of the management and maintenance of collection property and the increase of service level are severer.

In the past twenty years, the library has tried to promote the service by simply providing the books. However, now it only adds some audio-video products for some time, such as video tape, CD and DVD. In addition, now more and more libraries also provide computer to go online to search the information. Along with the constant increase of the library’s information resource, the worries concerning guaranteeing the safety of the collection property and maintaining (or promoting) service level is also constantly increased. A lot of municipalities and institutes compensate the increasing expenses in multimedia resource and computer hardware through reducing the operating expenditure (such as reduction in personnel).

Considering the worries of the aforesaid library administrator, RFID technical solution exerts a function that is beyond the reach of magnetic strip and bar code technology. RFID tag is pasted onto the library property in a similar way, while the material shall be paid attention, such as paper and plastic. Compared with bar code and the magnetic strip, the RFID tag has the advantages as follows:

I. To scan the data information of RFID tag is faster.

II. During the borrowing and returning process of the customers, the self-help service is simple and fast.

III. The monitoring rate is ultra high.

IV. Greatly reduce the wrong alarm of exit sensor from occurring.

V. Increase the stock speed

VI. The articles are rapidly put in their place so as to increase the classification and resetting speed and facilitate the next reader.

VII. Its service life is longer than the barcode.