New storage facility for the Bodleian!

[aelfgyfu_mead]

I am amused by the title of this article: "What do you do with 8 million books? Build a shelf 153 miles long," by Richard Garner, The Independent. They offer pretty darned good retrieval times, and the thought that they were storing books in a former salt mine makes all kinds of alarms go off in my head.

(No, I'm not really a librarian myself, although I worked part-time in a couple of libraries when I was younger. My userpic is a quote from the third Librarian movie, and I just love it!)

Comments

[delphia2000.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of how often we have missing and mis-shelved books at our little library and omg how will they keep track of all those?

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

*Laughs*

Oh my...not a very good place for books I'm sure *worries*

And I love that quote - Noah rocks my socks, lol!