User's Manual

9-2 ILS Open Plus 3.0 Installation Manual
• Tag Programming Station
• Tag Programming Application
• Programming Station Computer with monitor, keyboard, and mouse
• Barcode scanner
• USB to Serial Converter (2 qty) or a Serial Port Board
• Eventually, an active network connection from the TPS computer to the Application
Server
How it works
ISO-ready tags are programmed (encoded) with the item identifier used by the LMS using
the Tag Programming Station. In an RFID-only environment, this would be all that a
library would do to convert their restrospective collection for using RFID tags.
For those libraries that will continue to support barcodes as well as RFID (mainly for
support with branches that have not been converted yet), the library can also print a
barcode on the label at the same time when programming a tag, linking the same item
identifier used by the barcode and the tag.
The high-level process by which tags are programmed is as follows:
1 Decide if you are programming new or existing materials:
• If programming new materials, the program creates a new item identifier.
• If using existing barcodes, you will scan the barcode for the item identifier to be
programmed to the tag.
2 The Tag Programming Station prints and programs the tag with the item identifier.