Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Bibliography

Updated March 30, 2004

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Library and RFID Industry

• American Library Association - Intellectual Freedom Committee, Intellectual Freedom Issues. RFID: Radio Frequency Identification Chips and Systems.
• American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee, Report to Council – 2004 Midwinter Meeting (MS Word document), January 14, 2004.
• Richard W. Boss, RFID Technology, Public Library Association (PLA) Tech Notes
• Richard W. Boss, RFID Technology for Libraries, Library Technology Reports, Nov/Dec 2003.
• David Dorman, RFID poses no problem for patron privacy. American Libraries, December, 2003.
• Jackie Griffin and Karen Schneider, Should Libraries Play Tag with RFIDs? American Libraries, December 2003.
• Ron Harris, SF Library officials grilled on plan to put trackers in books. SF Gate Online, March 5, 2004.
• Ron Harris, Library eyes need for book trackers. Contra Costa Times, March 6, 2004.

• Santa Clara City Library: Making the Decision to Change
• Alan Sayre, Self-Serve at the Library. San Francisco Chronicle, August 9, 1999.

• SFPL holds public forum on adopting RFID technology.
• Karen Schneider, RFID and Libraries: Both Sides of the Chip (PDF), testimony presented at Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee, California Senate, Nov. 20, 2003.
• Michael Schuyler, RFID: Helpmate or Conspiracy? Computers in Libraries, January 2004.
• Vinod Chachra, Daniel McPherson, Personal Privacy and Use of RFID Technology in Libraries (PDF), October 31, 2003.

Library RFID Vendors

• 3M (Retail and Library Industry Vendor)
• Bibliotheca-RFID (Library Industry Vendor)
• Checkpoint (Library Industry Vendor)
• ID Systems (Retail and Library Industry Vendor)
• Libramation (Library Industry Vendor)
• Tagsys (Retail and Library Industry Vendor)
• Tech Logic (Library Industry Vendor)
• Vernon Library Supplies (Library Industry Vendor)
• VTLS, Inc. (Library Industry Vendor)

Business and RFID Industry
Organizations

• Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility (AIM)
• EPCGlobal (RFID consortium). This organization is following up the work from the Auto-ID Center of MIT.

Articles and Reports

• Bureau of National Affairs. BNA’s Web Watch – Radio Frequency Identification.
• Jay Cline, RFID privacy scare is overblown. Computer World, November 24, 2003.
• Jennifer Maselli, Startup seeks organic RFID chip. RFID Journal, March 29, 2004.
• RFID Technology News from ComputerWorld
• RFID Vendors from ComputerWorld.
• The ROI of Privacy Invasion, RFID Connections, January
• Sanjay E. Sarma, Daniel W. Engels. Technical Paper: On the Future of RFID Tags and Protocols. June 1, 2003. - (Search by author or title from this page)
• Sanjay E. Sarma, Stephen A. Weiss, Daniel W. Engels, White Paper: RFID Systems, Security, and Privacy Implications. November 1, 2002 - (Search by author or title from this page)

Consumer Advocacy and Privacy
Organizations

• Boycott Gillette
• Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Electronic Privacy Information Center
• Eurotag. RFID/EAS, electromagnetic fields and people. Eurotag is the key European online forum concerning the RFID industry.
• Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
• RFID Privacy Happenings – a web log sponsored by the RFID Privacy Workshop at MIT.
• Stop RFID(Project of CASPIAN)

Articles and Reports

• American Library Association. Guidelines for Developing a Library Privacy Policy, August 2003.
• Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN) and Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Position statement on the use of RFID on consumer products. November 14, 2003.
• Electronic Frontier Foundation, Privacy risks of radio frequency identification “tagging” of library books: Comments to the San Francisco Library Commission. October 1, 2003.
• Beth Givens, RFID and the Public Policy Void, testimony presented at Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee, California Senate, August 18, 2003.
• Beth Givens, RFID Implementation in Libraries, presentation to American Library Association, Intellectual Freedom Committee at ALA Mid-Winter Conference, January 10, 2004.
•  Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology – Where is it Headed? California Senate. Energy, Utilities and Communications, Subcommittee on New Technologies, Informational Hearing, November 20, 2003.
• RFID Technology and Pervasive Computing. California Senate. Energy, Utilities and Communications, Subcommittee on New Technologies, Informational Hearing, August, 18, 2003.
• San Francisco Department of the Environment. White Paper. The Precautionary Principle and the City and County of San Francisco (PDF). March 2003.
• Jay Warrior, Eric McHenry and Kenneth McGee, They know where you are. IEEE Spectrum Online, July, 2003.

Health and Safety
Organizations

• Amateur Radio RF Safety Calculator.
• California Electric and Magnetic Fields Program (Part of the California Department of Health, Environmental Health Investigations Branch.)
• EMR Network.
• Federal Communications Commission, Office of Engineering and Technology. Radio Frequency Safety.
• International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection.
• Pacific Gas & Electric, Understanding Electric and Magnetic Fields website.
• San Francisco Neighborhood Antenna-Free Union (SNAFU).
• Sutro Tower Community Perspectives.
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, EMF RAPID (Electric and Magnetic Fields Research and Public Information Dissemination Program)
• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, EMF.
• UC Berkeley Communication and Network Services Radio Frequency Safety.
• United States Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Non-Ionizing Radiation: Radiofrequency and Microwave Radiation.
• World Health Organization, Electromagnetic Fields.

Articles and Reports

• About Electromagnetic Fields. World Health Organization
• David Banas, Employee exposure to high level radio frequency radiation. Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, March 01, 2002.
• C-K. Chow and J. A. D’Andrea. Reviews of effects of RF fields on various aspects of human health: Introduction. Bioelectromagnetics, Supplement 6, 2003.
• Robert F. Cleveland, Jr. and Jerry L. Ulcek, Questions and Answers about Biological Effects and Potential Hazards of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields (PDF). Federal Communications Commission Office of Engineering and Technology: OET Bulletin 56, August 1999.

• Robert F. Cleveland, Jr., David M. Sylvar and Jerry L. Ulcek. Evaluating Compliance with FCC Guidelines for Human Exposure to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields (PDF). Federal Communications Commission Office of Engineering and Technology: OET Bulletin 65, August 1997.
• J. Mark Elwood. Epidemiological studies of radio frequency exposures and human cancer. Bioelectromagnetics, Supplement 6, 2003.
• Brigitta Floderus, Carin Stenlund and Frank Carlgren. Occupational exposures to high frequency electromagnetic fields in the intermediate range (>300 Hz – 10 MHz). Bioelectromagnetics, December 2002.
• Kenneth R. Foster, Paolo Vecchia and Michael H. Repacholi, Risk Management. Science and the precautionary principle. Science, May 12, 2000.
• Frequently Asked Questions about the safety of radiofrequency (RF) and microwave emissions from transmitters and facilities regulated by the FCC.
• International EMF Project, Fact Sheets and Backgrounders. (Part of the World Health Organization website)
• Norbert Leitgeb and Jorg Schrottner. Electrosensibility and electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Bioelectromagnetics, September 2003.
• John M. Osepchuk and Ronald C. Petersen. Historical review of RF exposure standards and the International Committee of Electomagnetic Safety (ICES). Bioelectromagnetics, Supplement 6, 2003.
• Possible Health Risks to the General Public from the Use of Security and Similar Devices: Executive Summary (PDF). Quality of Life, European Commission, [2002].
• Eric van Rongen, et al. Mobile phones and children: Is precaution warranted? Bioelectromagnetics, February 2004.
• Short Factsheet on EMF (PDF). California Electric and Magnetic Fields Program, 1999.
• Caroline White, Risk of Cancer from mobile phones is unclear. British Medical Journal, January 17, 2004.

General Information

• AVID Microchip ID. (RFID manufacturer of animal tags and receivers.)
• Kevin Bonsor, How E-Z Pass Works.
• Kevin Bonsor, How Smart Labels Will Work.
• Marshall Brain and Thomas Harris, How GPS Receivers Work .
• Bob Brewin, Radio Frequency Identification, ComputerWorld, December 16, 2002.
• Cathy Booth-Thomas, The See-It-All Chip, Time Bonus Section, October, 2003
• Brian Bergstein, No-swipe credit cards on their way, San Francisco Chronicle, December 14, 2003.
• Kenneth R. Foster, Paolo Vecchia and Michael H. Repacholi, Science and the Precautionary Principle. Science, May 12, 2000.
• Heather Green, Sensor Revolution: Bugging the World. Business Week, August, 25, 2003.
• Public Safety Wireless Network (Part of Safecom).
• RFID Journal
• David Shenk, Watching You: The World of High-Tech Surveillance. National Geographic, November 2003.
• James Surowiecki, The Financial Page EZ Does it. New Yorker, September 8, 2003.

RFID Glossaries

• TI (Texas Instruments) RFID Technology Central
• RFID Journal
• AIM (Automatic Identification and Mobility) Global Network
• National Retail Federation Stores Online