Librarian Bots To The Rescue!

[Blake Carver]

"In Remote Library Stacks, an All-Seeing, Scanning Robot"

Here's One from The NYTimes on libraries of the future, partially run by by 
robotic systems linked to the Internet. They now have a robot that can move 
about inside a library and locate a book requested by a user, take it off 
the shelf and carry it to a nearby scanning station. In the system's 
envisaged final version, a second robot at the scanning station would scan 
specific pages of the book that the user was interested in. The user would 
then be able to leaf through the book over the Internet from any location.

Here's the Realllllly Log URL:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/technology/circuits/27NEXT.html?ex=1025841600&en=1f5771200b66974d&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA

This project is over at Johns Hopkins, and has A Web Site.
http://dkc.mse.jhu.edu/CAPM/



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Blake Carver
Web Librarian
The Ohio State University Libraries
carver.50 at osu.edu
247-7424