First I thought there was an exciting new flavor of ice-cream. Then I realized the title is “Self-Serve” not “Soft-Serve”. Then I thought this could be a new form of solo Tennis.

Alas, a library that carries my name at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has deployed a bar code reader. They call it the Ottenheimer Self-Serve.

Welcome to Ottenheimer — serve yourself.

I am just glad it is not an RFID scanner. Yesterday I went on at length in my cloud compliance presentation at the San Francisco ISACA Conference about the security risks in RFID tags, including those used in a (controversial) trial at the Oakland and Berkeley libraries.