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 ...

When Jacob Grussing, director of Scott County Library (SCL) in Shakopee, Minnesota, spoke to the local paper about SCL’s investigation into self-serve library services, he wasn’t exactly prepared for ...

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 ...

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, ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Library of Congress, the biggest physical repository of information in the world, has been digitizing its resources, expanding its ...

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 ...