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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Famous quotes containing the word barn:
“A barn shall harbour heaven,
A stall become a shrine.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“There was a deserted log camp here, apparently used the previous winter, with its “hovel” or barn for cattle.... It was a simple and strong fort erected against the cold, and suggested what valiant trencher work had been done there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things—but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)