User guide

3M™ Digital Library Assistant User Guide
Maintaining the antenna at the correct distance
Hold the DLA antenna close to the book spine.
• Try to keep the antenna approximately 0.5 in. (1,3 cm) or less
from the book spines.
• You may want to touch the antenna to each book to help ensure
that each book’s tag is read.
If the pacing sound stops when checking shelf order, the
DLA is no longer detecting a tag and the antenna may be too
far away.
Moving the DLA at the correct speed
Move the DLA at the correct speed.
• The DLA creates a pacing sound (a continuous series of beeps)
to help you move the DLA at the optimal speed.
• If you read at approximately one book per pacing sound, you
are moving at the right speed.
If necessary, you can read at a slower or slightly faster rate.
Reading groups of thin items
When reading a group of thin items using the normal method, you may encounter excessive shelf-order errors.
To reduce these errors, set the Item Width setting to Thin or use the reading technique shown in Method 2.
Method 1 – Set the Item Width setting to Thin
1. From the main DLA screen, press Options.
2. Set the Item Width setting (set in the Options:
General screen) to Thin when checking the shelf
order of large groups of thin items.
This may reduce excessive false shelf-order
errors.
3. Use the DLA to read the shelves.
When you are through reading thin items, set
the item width setting back to Medium.
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Position the antenna
within 0.5 in. (1,3 cm)
from the book’s spine.
Antenna
DLA_010
DLA_055
DLA_011
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