“We’ll have 20 temporary staff, 30 full-time staff, about a dozen people from a moving company, and about 30 students working full weeks from mid May to the end of July,” said Richie Holland, Temple Libraries’ director of administration. “A workforce of about 80 students currently working part-time on move-related tasks also will contribute to the effort.”
Temple University’s New Charles Library
…the university is moving far more books than it had in its collections a half-century ago. Roughly 1.5 million volumes will be loaded into the library’s automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS), with a total capacity of nearly two million books. Already, 1,000 books are loaded into the ASRS—colloquially referred to as the BookBot—for test runs of the device to train library staff on how to operate it.
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area.
He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit.
Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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The move from Paley [Library] to Temple’s transformational Charles Library begins in earnest this month, after Paley closes its doors to the public May 9.
