RFID-Enabled Vending Machine Brings Automation, Security to Library Disk Loans

When Franklin County's Coyle Free Library, in Chambersburg, Pa., opens the doors of its renovated facility next month, it will feature two high-frequency (HF) RFID-enabled vending machines to check out or rent DVDs and CDs to patrons as part of a full solution to automate circulation and security. The RFID technology deployment is intended to reduce some of the more mundane tasks of employees so that they can spend more time helping patrons, says Denice M. Bigham, Coyle Free Library's director and the Franklin County Library System's director of library services.