Last week, I had the chance to visit Northwestern University Library's offsite storage in Waukegan. It's a pretty incredible operation. They have room to store nearly 2 million titles with their current shelving units and already have well over a million titles barcoded, boxed, and shelved. The organizer in me was very pleased by all this order.
Those dots at the end of the walkway are people, just to get a sense of the scale.
Lift to get all those books put away.
Grid heaven.
