Abstract—Most readers usually spend much time finding the
locations of books they want to borrow in libraries with varied
collections. Recently, some libraries have applied positioning
technologies, such as FRID or Wi-Fi, to provide mobile services
to help their readers find books by a time-saving way.
Certainly, it is a real big cost incidence for most libraries and
even may not have adequate human resources and budgets to
control and maintain the system running well. Considering the
limited and dwindling funding restrictions, in this study, we try
to adopt NFC technology collocated with mobile devices, such
as smart phones, to develop a novel but affordable book
finding system. It is expected that system will both satisfied the
needs of libraries (lower costing) and users (finding books
quickly).