Thursday, August 4, 2011

Book technology

Check out this article on the University of Chicago's new library system.  In addition to the regular stacks, millions of books are kept underground, and robots do all the retrieval.


 A High-Tech Library Keeps Books at Faculty Fingertips — With Robot Help


And if you don't want to read the whole thing, here's a video of how the system works.


You'll never catch me with a Kindle... but this kind of technology is more than welcome in my book!  

[yeah, bad pun, but I couldn't resist!]

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