From October 3, 2003 in USA Today:
SAN FRANCISCO — A civil liberties watchdog group is expressing concern over the San Francisco Public Library's plans to track books by inserting computer chips into each tome.
Library officials approved a plan Thursday to install tiny radio frequency identification chips, known as RFIDs, into the roughly 2 million books, CDs and audiovisual materials patrons can borrow. The system still needs funding and wouldn't be ready until at least 2005.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2003-10-03-sf-library-rfid_x.htm
Posted by holtzman at October 14, 2003 10:13 AMSimlarly: Berkeley librarians insist that embedding their books with a state-of-the-art monitoring device despised by privacy advocates will not grant Big Brother a glimpse at patron’s reading material...
http://www.berkeleydaily.org/article.cfm?issue=10-10-03&storyID=17547