Rutgers Libraries have instituted a new policy change that requires all library patrons to show a valid Rutgers ID after 10 p.m. – a decision that has now sparked protest from some students and community members. Rutgers began enforcing the new rule on November 16, which according to Rutgers student newspaper The Daily Targum, was […]

St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is now providing its students with mobile printing at the university’s many computer labs. There’s just one problem, students are yet to take advantage. The office of information technology at Saint Joseph’s was behind the mobile printing launch in the spring of 2014. The mobile functionality was designed to […]

The Yashwantrao Chavan College, run by the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC), will issue smart ID cards to 1,000 students admitted for the academic year 2013-14, according to The Times of India. The smart ID cards will help students access books from the college libraries and aid staff by enabling automatic data entry into software when […]

Primary, middle and high school students attending Shanghai school will receive a new electronic ID card when the school years starts up in September, according to a repot in the ShangaiDaily.com. The card will be used for a range of functions in and out of schools – from students’ status, growth record, physical health monitoring […]

The National University of Ireland has selected SALTO Systems to secure its recent extension to the John Paul II Library, according to SourceSecurityInfo.com. To handle security into and within the new 6,200 square meter building, the National University of Ireland has deployed the latest in contactless access control systems from SALTO Systems and fitted them […]

The San Francisco Public Library has deployed a cashless system from by ITC Systems and the company’s partner on the project, Konica Minolta. The job required 36 Cash Card Loaders, 42 Card Readers, 16 Microfilm Readers and a suite of ITC Print Manager software programs, all of which needed to support 300 workstations and 112 […]

Students at a Berkeley, N.J. school district are about to receive what many collegians already enjoy–a combo library and student ID card. The Central Regional School District is proposing to print an Ocean County Library card on the back of each student’s identification card. If an agreement between the school district and the county library […]

The University of Incheon in South Korea has automated its library operations with RaceTrack high-frequency RFID tags from UPM Raflatac coupled with a library automation solution from ECO. With the new RFID-enabled library automation solution, the university’s 10,000 students will receive faster book circulation, as well as self-service check-in/out stations. The RFID solution also enables […]

A primary school in Manchester, UK is piloting a program in which students as young as four years old use fingerprints rather than library cards to check out books from the school library. The new program is meeting some opposition, according to a Popular Science article, in the form of concerned parents and privacy advocating […]

Somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 schools throughout the UK are using fingerprint identification systems for various school related services including class registration, checking out library books and cashless payment for meals, according to a BBC News report. This has critics in an uproar. Parents are outraged that the schools are taking their children’s fingerprint […]