[WEB4LIB] Librarian Bots To The Rescue!

[Jerry Kuntz]

My first impression was that this is a vision of a future that I guess does not include the original texts being in electronic format. Maybe all the robots have Pat Schroeder faces? 


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From: Blake Carver <carver.50 at osu.edu>
Reply-To: carver.50 at osu.edu
Date:  Thu, 27 Jun 2002 04:56:43 -0700 (PDT)

>"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
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>

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Jerry Kuntz
Electronic Resources Consultant
Ramapo Catskill Library System
jkuntz at rcls.org

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