The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library: How It Works

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The new Joe and Rika Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago houses cutting-edge facilities for preservation and digitization of physical books, as well as a high-density underground storage system with the capacity to hold 3.5 million volume equivalents. With its soaring elliptical dome and prime location on campus, the Mansueto Library's Grand Reading Room, which opens May 16, 2011, provides an inviting space for rigorous scholarship in an array of fields.
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@12ghealy 11 лет назад

The new system brings up a bin of your book and many similar books. The student can look at this bin and pick out the book they requested, but also see the books that would be around it in stacks. This way the students can stumble upon books, much like in a normal library. Remember that, while the University of Chicago designed this library, other schools, such as Columbia and Harvard, simply moved extra books off campus to a remote location, so it takes 24+ hours to get a book you order.

@alexiskai 11 лет назад

I love all these comments like "How stupid, they obviously should have done X instead," as if the U of C chose this design by throwing darts at a board instead of a lengthy, careful, cost-benefit analysis.

@nrsmarji 10 лет назад

truly revolutionary, i am in awe.

@Hardyman1966 13 лет назад

Oh. My. GAWD! It's like door storage in "Monsters, Inc." :)

@Otterwearinggloves 13 лет назад

From the thumbnail I was led to believe that the books would be led around the edge of the library on a conveyor belt. But this is cool too!

@lilianagiustiserra3195 10 лет назад

Joe and Rika Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago: uma das bibliotecas mais interessantes que já conheci. Ainda não vi melhor solução para armazenamento do acervo. E o dome é deslumbrante!

@hellieengland3589 6 лет назад

Wow I love this!

@marleyluber 12 лет назад

Only at UC would they have something so incredible

@Vitorfico1 7 лет назад

That is wonderful !

@haigshahverdyan6230 4 года назад

I could probably sit in this library and read for hours.

@zzl01 13 лет назад

@foxbearturtlegator Libraries were constructed with a maximum capacity. The excessive holdings (usually past periodicals and journals since main libraries only keep current issues) are usually moved to the storage library off-campus. When you need them you have to make an electronic request and wait a day for them to be retrieved and sent to the campus.

@tserkoslavjanskij 11 лет назад

In the dark ages when I was an undergraduate at UChicago, there was a tool called a shelf list. While not so helpful as browsing the stacks, a shelf list gives one at least the authors & titles of books within a range of call numbers. Surely with computers such a list is available or can be readily generated. A successful researcher-in-training learns where to look, whom to ask, how to compile bibliographies, to ask better questions, to overcome obstacles & put frustration to good use.

@slgrach 13 лет назад

@christophla The common characteristic between all of the books in Mansueto is that they are all digitally indexed and can be found online. The storage site allows students who want the actual book to still be able to access it while, at the same time, opening up space in a library that was already far over-capacity.

@Lulu-in2wq 11 лет назад

That is amazing

@nkrabben 13 лет назад

@Lightice1Yes, you can't do academic research by shelf-reading a library, but I find a surprising number of useful books through targeted browsing. Knowing the location of one good book gives the location of a shelf of similar books. Most library search systems replicate this by including an option to browse by call number as well, but for me it's more useful to browse through the related books for information.

@jinfeizhu4893 4 года назад

This is so cool!!!

@Harpsichord246 11 лет назад

So cool...

@thezquad 13 лет назад

@supermatthew222 Sorry ran out of space :) Also consider that robots have far more moving parts than hard disks if you go the hard disk route. Over the years storage has become more reliable and cheaper and that is a continuing trend. Several companies are moving books to the cloud because it just makes sense

@Technochocolate 12 лет назад

This storage system was designed so that U of C could keep all of its books on campus. The alternatives would have been moving lesser used books into storage facilities off campus, throwing them away, or selling them. The university choose the ability to better preserve older books and drastically increase its carrying capacity, but yes there is the cost of increasing energy use and losing ability to physically "stumble" upon related titles. Engineering is tradeoffs.

@zzl01 13 лет назад

@foxbearturtlegator Now with mansueto, you can get them immediately. Mansueto is designed to hold 3.5 million volumes. I guess the storage library of UChicago would hold up to 1-1.5 million, so these volumes will be transferred to the new library, and the holdings in the main libraries such as Regenstein would largely be left untouched. So this is not really destroying the browsing experience, for without the library one cannot have immediate access to them either.

@foxylover777 13 лет назад

That 3d model reminded me of the first Resident Evil movie and creeped me out

@mdterps72789 10 лет назад

putting all those books in all those bins must have been a bittcccchhhhhh

@slgrach 13 лет назад

@dabooblabob I didn't say that it would replace browsing the stacks (of course it doesn't), I said that it was either having the books on the site stored underground or having it in off-site storage. I'd imagine that picking up the book five minutes later and realizing it wasn't actually useful would be a lot better than realizing it hours, even a day, later. And like predicto said, the books stored are not "popular." It's just possible that the new books might be more relevant.

@slgrach 13 лет назад

@dabooblabob It was either this or create an off-site library that would STILL keep you from flipping through the books on the shelves. The Regenstein (along with other collections) was considered to be over-filled, and technically did not have enough room to efficiently supply new books. So now the books are at least still on campus (though they can also all be "flipped through" online), and students can instead browse new books that will probably be more relevant.

@jaramillojairoyamid 13 лет назад

Very Well!!!

@qwrites7716 13 лет назад

@andybmallon I believe it is more difficult and expensive to attach RFID labels to books than barcodes, especially when many of the books going into Mansueto are in storage and have not yet been barcoded (or sometimes even entered into the electronic catalog). Besides, the books in Mansueto aren't expected to circulate as often as most books in a public library, so the speed of RFID isn't necessary.

@SYLBM 13 лет назад

i guess it saves a bit of time. looks cool. i wonder how much energy it tastes to move those huge cranes around all the time and how much it will cost to keep them running efficiently, and how much it cost to build the underground database.

@jspeyton 13 лет назад

@foxbearturtlegator I agree. The technology is impressive, but serendipitous browsing is important even in research libraries.

@Southparknscrubs 13 лет назад

omgfacts, anyone? This is awesome!!!

@thezquad 13 лет назад

@supermatthew222 Hence redundant storage; data on the cloud does not sit on one machine and wait till the storage device goes bad. The bigger picture is accessibility by everyone, everywhere and forever.

@011mph 13 лет назад

@LincMclaren i prefer an actual book over an eReader. just sayin'

@Lightice1 13 лет назад

@foxbearturtlegator Browsing is for the public libraries. You never find anything from university libraries without some idea what you are looking for, and just browsing randomly probably yields only boring tomes from fields completely outside your interest or comprehension.

@AxmxZ 13 лет назад

You can't fool me. Cthulhu lives there.

@thezquad 13 лет назад

@supermatthew222 Fair enough but if you convert the present value of the cost of the project as a perpetual annuity at a reasonable interest rate + annual labor + maintenance, you will realize a fairly high annual sum. Compare that cost to dumping everything on a $1.50/Gb cloud for storage and a few cents for bandwidth. Add a software platform to distribute the whole thing also annualized C, are you will see that digitizing is not a bad option.Disasters do happen: fires, robots malfunction.

@nkrabben 13 лет назад

@zzl01 If I understand you correctly, only the serial volumes are going into these closed reserves. That's much more understandable. I only wish the video made that clear.

@iceplee1973 13 лет назад

I wonder how much energy it consumes, and are the books kept in the same bin all the time or they are randomly assigned once they have retrieved?

@PeterinScotland 13 лет назад

Looking at the future of underground storage in an emergency situation, does this library require power to keep it drained?

@whoishober 13 лет назад

@LFDOG & to all the other similar comments... "copyrights prevent many full-text volumes from being posted online, leaving a lot of information trapped on paper." from wired's "Robots Retrieve Books in University of Chicago’s New, Futuristic Library"

@Tomsejnik 12 лет назад

I need something like this to store my things, my house is already full of important things (junk)

@MoroniLinhares 13 лет назад

A biblioteca do futuro! Pena que uma biblioteca dessa está para o Brasil, assim como a honestidade está para a política nacional.

@nkrabben 13 лет назад

@AHW214 Ereaders have ergonomic limitations that are particularly obvious when doing research. The worst of these are the inability to flip back and forth between two non-sequential pages, and the lack of page numbers for citations. These are solvable problems, but it needs time to evolve to something as intuitive as the bound book.

@nkrabben 13 лет назад

I'm impressed and dismayed. Efficient storage, but a loss in serendipitous browsing.

@rolanddeschain2547 10 лет назад

WIZARDS

@vonspre 13 лет назад

Helmut Jahn is a genius...

@victai98 13 лет назад

Amazing gigantic..... hard drive?

@Skwemo 13 лет назад

How did they do the intro?

@FranksClass 13 лет назад

@whoishober So let's change copyright laws. Shouldn't we be moving towards a system of copyright that recognizes we are not living in 1920 and respects the rights of the creators? It can be done and needs to be. Is it not in the best interests of everyone involved to allow a creative product to be made as widely available as possible? For knowledge? For the profit of the creator? I'm not suggesting that everyone gets their books free. I'm suggesting we free books from their paper prison!

@kylemac345 13 лет назад

@foxbearturtlegator They should institute a random resource function, similar to Wikipedia's random article function.

@LarryCebula 13 лет назад

What could possibly go wrong?

@bludstone 13 лет назад

What happens if the dome breaks and then it rains?

@THESILVERNARUTO 13 лет назад

@Hardyman1966 I so thought that too!!!

@bludstone 13 лет назад

@MrYousafBajwa so it floods?

@455804 13 лет назад

@ConcealRise What are you doing in a library when force fail

@LisaRosaBella 12 лет назад

They can't scan the items into a computer because of copyright law.

@hughtub 13 лет назад

@swhite58 Google has already digitized many books (some of these, no doubt). They had cameras set up w/ suction vacuums to turn pages, should take under 5 minutes if lot of photos/high res, but less for books w/ text & OCR. I'm a critic of this. I'd prefer many large interactive screens w/ Apple coverflow-ish UI, and sell the physical books. Maybe copyright is an issue with digitizing, unfortunately. Either way, the lady at 1:24 doesn't belong in a highly technologicaly advanced society.

@LFDOG 13 лет назад

Although... as critical as I am of the physical books. I would change my mind if it was steam powered.

@SLACKLINEDUDE 7 лет назад

I watched rap god and I remembered this

@eatallofthechalk 11 лет назад

I really really miss my alma mater.

@YoungJSwagness2 11 лет назад

What if i want multiple books? o_O

@MrYousafBajwa 13 лет назад

@bludstone its all underground

@Prixmium 13 лет назад

If only they could do this for Gamestop...

@matchbox555 13 лет назад

errrr... why don't they just scan all the books

@011mph 13 лет назад

@Hardyman1966 i was JUST about to say that XD

@StackCityEntOfficial 13 лет назад

@swhite58 Notice the ":P" face, I was joking, mate.

@Geckuno 12 лет назад

Mava 314 için geldiyseniz çok geç hacı ben kaptım =p

@LincMclaren 13 лет назад

OR... WE CAN JUST READ BOOKS ONLINE -_- I guess this is the solution to all the Bookstores and Libraries shutting down

@LFDOG 13 лет назад

Has anyone ever thought of just scanning all the books into digital form and then allowing for simultaneous access over a global inter-connected network? We could call them "E-books" and call the inter-connected network the "Internet".

@SunofSadric 13 лет назад

..........why not just store the books digitally?

@ConcealRise 13 лет назад

When the power fails, things are going to get problematic.

@thezquad 13 лет назад

In this day and age of ipads and kindles we're still building massive systems for storing and retrieving books? I bet you could have spent 1/4 of that money to digitize all those books and have them readily available to everyone and forever smh

@zan5051 13 лет назад

That is extremely inefficient, and will be far too slow to serve the needs of the people. a retrieval system consisting of numerous ceiling-mounted crate grabbers would be much more efficient. The crates would likely have to be smaller, but with the cranes mounted on the ceiling, more crates could be retrieved at once.

@StackCityEntOfficial 13 лет назад

Why not just Google it? :P