Notebook computers and wireless communication
It is possible to edit catalog records from the shelves, rather than books having to be
brought to the cataloger's desk, through the use of computers with wireless connections
to the online catalog.
Other opportunities become possible when authorized workers can change things at the
shelves. Review/verification/editing become less expensive in terms of time and transferred
knowledge when the work can be accomplished at the books' location. "Transferred knowledge"
means, for example, the transfer of knowledge from the person who could edit the records to
the person who has to go and get the books.