Library Software:
capterra.com
Online Library Support:
libraryworld.com
Automatic Retrieval Systems:
CSU Sonoma, 3 stories high 750,000 item capacity
library.sonoma.edu
made by HK Systems of Salt Lake City, Utah
en.wikipedia.org
USING such systems for warehousing
supplychainmarket.com
HK Systems
bloomberg.com
packworld.com
finally, their corporate site
hksystems.com
but it does not work
Glassdoor
glassdoor.com
Bought by Dematic
inddist.com
Dematic, corporate site
dematic.com
okay finally, their document and collection management products
dematic.com
Document & Collections Management Supply Chain Trends
•University collections continue to grow despite increasing digital collections
•Library and archive spaces require accommodation for more patrons and students and less for the collection
•Patrons desire quick access to collections
•Collections require a specially conditioned environment in order to best preserve them
•Software capabilities are allowing better access to digital collections as well as abstracts
Economic Drivers
•Not feasible to manage large collections in an open stack form
•Costs to manage volumes are increasing
•Funding for construction projects is difficult to obtain, necessitating the need to build enough for the future
•Offsite collection management cannot get volumes to demanding patrons fast enough
•Use of print media continues to decrease
Automated Library System Solutions
The Dematic Automated Library System (ALS) utilizes an automated storage and retrieval machine, and a special integrated software control system to provide fully automated high density collection management. To preserve library collections, the ALS can operate in a controlled environment that has the proper humidity, temperature and is free of dust and other contaminates.
Large installation
ala.org
library.csun.edu
cost $2 Meg, 40' high ( about 4 stories ) 8,000 sq ft at floor
13k steel bins
1.7 million item capacity
By my estimates then that is about a 5 x increase over standard shelving.
THis kind of equipment is widely used in all sorts of other industries.
U Chicago
lib.uchicago.edu
UNLV, known to be 300k sqft, with ARS, total capacity is 1.2 meg bound volumes
library.unlv.edu
So they talk about $1 meg costs for each 10k sq ft of floor space., So by my estimates that would be about space for 100k of books in standard shelving, max legal ADA compliant density. Or, especially muti story going for to ceiling, space for 500k books via ARS, Huge ARS costs $2 Meg.
I think even acadamic libraries do not have as many books as they might.
Say 100k sq ft of mostly study tables, cost $10 Meg. Then say 100k sq ft of ARS, costs $10 Meg plus $2meg, holds 5 million books.
SJG
