Inside the University of Chicago’s Automated Library

Source: wired.com Posted By: Candace George..4743 days ago

The University of Chicago has revealed how its automated, robotic Joe and Rika Mansueto Library will work.

The building, a mammoth sunlit elliptical dome fashioned from glass and steel, has no books, aisles or shelves to peruse. Instead it sits on top of a 50-foot-deep storage vault which archives the library’s millions of volumes.

The books are loaded into 24,000 bins, roughly 100 books to a tub, and categorized by size rather than authors or subjects to maximize the efficient use of each....

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