Dear colleagues in profession, I beg to differ with Gayathri Sen of the PESIT-Engineering College (leaving aside her claim to be the 2nd library in the country to have implemented EAS system!). While observations made by Gayathri Sen must be certainly based on her experiences, it cannot be generalized that the RFID and EAS systems are only for 'show off'. Percolation of RFID in libraries is a good technological advancement in our profession. I have seen this system working very fine, without any hassles, in a number of libraries in India and abroad, and we should really boast of its implementation in Indian libraries. It is unfortunate that Gayathri Sen landed in wrong vendors' land with some infamous product, hence her problems and sufferings. Else her experience could have certainly been of jubilation, pride and exuberance. Rafiq Ansari Senior Manager - Library TV Division, The Times of India Group Kamala Mills Compound Lower Parel (West) Mumbai - 400 013 Email: rafiq.ansari@timesgroup.com -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 12:04 PM To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 38, Issue 43 Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in You can reach the person managing the list at lis-forum-owner@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." Today's Topics: 1. EAS systems - Library Security (gayathri sen) 2. Dr. TBR Memorial Lecture (anitha mk) 3. Indian Edition of DDC (veena bhat) 4. Regarding Technical Course (bharathi niranjana) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 01:54:40 -0700 (PDT) From: gayathri sen Subject: [LIS-Forum] EAS systems - Library Security To: LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20060529085440.64893.qmail@web52904.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Friends, Ours was the first library in Karnataka and Second in our country after IUCCA, Pune to install EAS Security System in Libraries. US consulate had this for other purpose and not for its library. My experience: 1. Not very reliable 2. Return on Investment not good 3. Service is poor. We bought it from Monitor Electronics, Pune but the product was imported. They did not have office in Bangalore and every time we had to bear their conveyence charge plus repair charge whcih worked out to be too expensive in the long run. 4.Service was not immediate because they had to come from Pune. 5. Product acts only as deterrant for stealing, but total loss cannot be prevented. 6. Too many false alarms. 7. Adds only value but not a must buy. 8. You can buy it if you have too much finance to spend, or to show off to others and say you have a very modern library. 9. Newer versions may be slightly bettter. 10. Right now we have stopped depending on this. Regards, Gayathri Sen PESIT-Engineering College --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta.