BARN
An automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) is an integral part of the building and allows for many years of collection development. Designed and built by Daifuku of America at its North American Headquarters in Salt Lake City, the system is enclosed in a 56-foot-wide (17 m) by 140-foot-long (43 m) and 80-foot-high (24 m) climate-controlled corner of the library building. Three isles of shelves are served by three Storage and Retrieval Machines (SRMs) that can retrieve an average of 875 volumes a day. There is space to add a fourth row of shelves when it is needed. The BARN (Borrower’s Automated Retrieval Network) was so named in reference to Utah State University’s status as an agricultural school.
All of the Merrill-Cazier Library’s bound journals, approximately 170,000 less frequently used books, and most of the microform are stored in the BARN. There are currently nearly 480,000 items with room to expand to approximately 1.5 million items.
Items can be requested from the BARN using the library’s online catalog and are made available for checkout at services desks. Books are available on the first floor at the circulation desk and journals and microform are available on the second floor at the serial/periodical desk.
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“A barn shall harbour heaven,
A stall become a shrine.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
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Bishop Hatto, he made fast the door;
And while for mercy on Christ they call,
He set fire to the barn and burnt them all.”
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)