LIBRARIES NEWS
THE bookBOT BOOK MOVE BY THE NUMBERS During the summer and fall of 2012, almost 1.5 million books were moved into the James B. Hunt Jr. Library’s bookBot automated book delivery system. Moving books from the D. H. Hill Library and branch libraries, pulling items from remote storage sites, and barcoding and loading books into the bookBot, library staff and student workers took on a monumental task that has had positive effects at the Hunt Library and across all of the NCSU Libraries. Here’s a look at some of the book move statistics.
REDUCED HEIGHT OF BOOKSTACKS SHELVES FROM
8FEET TO 6FEET TO MAKE BOOKS EASIER TO REACH
LOADED AN AVERAGE OF
16,000 ITEMS PER DAY
NCSU LIBRARIES CELEBRATES OLYMPIC SPIRIT WITH 3000M bookBOT RELAY VIDEO Produced by the NCSU Libraries, this video celebrated and commemorated the move of 1.5 million books and other materials into the bookBot. In all, thirteen special friends participated in the video by taking a “leg” of the relay and handing off the ceremonial book, Marks’ Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, to the next person in the relay. The video premiered on the NCSU Libraries’ Facebook page, with a quiz contest that asked participants to name all the guests who appear in the video. Jamie Nance was the “super duper senior” (his description) who won the contest and the prize of an iPod shuffle, correctly identifying eleven of the possible thirteen champions in the quiz. See the video at: go.ncsu.edu/bookbotrelayvideo
77 MOVED OVER
THOUSAND BOXES OF MICRO-
FILM
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