Carlsbad’s public libraries are looking to streamline key processes by installing new equipment as part of a technology and system upgrade. The improved automated materials-handling system and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nov. 6—HARLINGEN — Library card owners of this city will soon be able to check out, return and pick up reserved materials at any ...

A new half-a-million dollar computerized sorting system at the Napa library now whisks returned books from patrons’ hands to sorting carts and back to shelves faster and more efficiently than ever ...

A new book-sorting machine was the highlight of a renovation ribbon-cutting at the Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library on Tuesday. "Using a public/private funding partnership, the library, ...

There's a window next to the book drop in the entrance of the Cedar Rapids Public Library at the Westdale Mall so passers-by can look in and watch workers check-in books as they are returned. Starting ...

Fred D. White tries to make the case that automated retrieval systems devalue books and reduce scholars’ ability to perform research (“Libraries Lost: Storage Bins and Robotic Arms,” Libraries, ...

The Automated Storage and Retrieval System, tucked underground on the east side of the Oviatt Library, is a man-made archivist with six electronically-operated limbs that help locate aged, used and ...

The Hunterdon County Library will be joining M.A.I.N. (Morris Automated Information Network) in January in order to broaden patron choices, Hunterdon County Freeholder Zach Rich reported at a recent ...