Automated Library: How the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library Works

The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago houses cutting-edge facilities for preservation and digitization of physical books, as well as a high-density underground storage system with the capacity to hold 3.5 million volume equivalents. With its soaring elliptical dome and prime location on campus, the Mansueto Library's Grand Reading Room, which opened on May 16, 2011, provides an inviting space for rigorous scholarship in an array of fields.
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[@tararao6633]

impressive

[@zohaibmehmood3027]

Very cool!

[@3842l4]

Looks like an Apple store

[@ubaidullah1228]

i made up labrary of 280 books saved his pocket mony..I am poor..

[@georges4543]

Sorry, U. Chicago. This is the backward way of information management. Digitizing everything and putting it online is the way to go.

[@whoishober]

They're digitizing lots of materials in Mansueto too www.lib.uchicago.edu/mansueto/tech/preservation/

[@philipsayeni2414]

George, you do have a point. But those hard copies too need to be preserved. What happens when the online storage system crashes, or there is server problem which could lead to delay in information retrieval. The truth is as much libraries should embrace digital innovation, we cannot totally phase out our book collections.

[@yufanzhou9948]

A great point, Philips.

[@hundid5930]

For many of these texts yes. But a good amount of these are historical artifacts in and over themselves. They need to be kept somewhere.

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