Once the initial conversion is completed, how should the library process new materials?
We recommend that the library continue to bar code its materials as usual or have bar code numbers printed on tag overlays. From that point forward, the tagging process described above should be followed. The library may choose to have books processed with an RFID tag by an outside vendor (Baker and Taylor, Ingram, etc.). The library may decide to have the vendor program the tag as well, but, if the library chooses to put sorting or item type information into the tag, we recommend that the actual tag programming (as opposed to tag insertion) be done by the library itself.
