Article can be managed relatively inexpensively without using an expensive database or communication infrastructure. An RFID tag communicating apparatus has an antenna that transmits/receives a signal by wireless communication with RFID circuit elements provided at the tag labels provided at a bookshelf on which books are placed and an operator, respectively, a radio frequency circuit, a barcode reader that optically detects information of a barcode provided at a book; and a control circuit. The control circuit has a function to write various work information of the book in an IC circuit part of the RFID circuit element provided for management of the book via the antenna and the radio frequency circuit in accordance with a detection result of the barcode information by the barcode reader.