Berkeley Library RFP Asks For Nuclear Free Vendor

beefsprocket writes "RFID tags are not new to libraries. Neither is 3M as one of the larger providers of the Checkpoint circulation and self-checkout system. What is new is a library discarding their current working system used for over 500,000 items because the vendor refuses to submit a required Nuclear Free Disclosure Form (PDF). The specific form is required for anyone wishing to do business with the City of Berkeley per the Nuclear Free Berkeley Act of 1986. This reverses a 2008 exemption that the Library applied for to be able to work with 3M."

3M sells other stuff too...

[rnaiguy]

How can you possibly totally avoid doing business with 3M? Where do they get post-it notes, and the million other little things the company makes?