"Underground-storage area at U. of Chicago’s new Mansueto Library uses robotic cranes to shelve and retrieve materials"

Chronicle of Higher Education: A High-Tech Library Keeps Books at Faculty Fingertips—With Robot Help

  • “Like other libraries, Chicago’s faced the problem of bulging stacks. But unlike others, it didn’t relieve that crunch by exiling collections to remote locations or disposing of little-used holdings. Its underground storage system can place a bound volume in faculty fingers less than five minutes after getting the request. That technology may be coming soon to a library near you. A small but growing group of universities has already adopted it. As more confront building decisions over the next decade, a “significant number” will very likely go the Chicago route, predicts Richard W. Boss, a former university librarian at Prince­ton who does technology consulting for libraries.”
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