University of Chicago's Joe and Rika Mansueto library make book retrieval a robotic affair
Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 14:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Visitors to the Grand Reading Room of the Joe and Rika Mansueto library at the University of Chicago will be in for a bit of a surprise. The books are not on shelves for the reader to peruse, but stored under the building, in tightly packed in bins stacked five stories deep. This new library relies not on you navigating the stacks armed only with your knowledge of the dewy decimal system, but in knowing what you want.