A couple of WTF comments

[SarcasticDwarf]

I went to the University of Wisconsin Madison campus today to talk with an academic advisor about my graduate work. While on campus, I went to check out the library and noticed that there seemed to be some large sections missing such as programming. Keep in mind that this library is (I think) ~12 floors and has automatic shelf storage systems(think inventory retrieval for books). Well come to find out, that was only one of many libraries. Its frigging nuts! There are a few dozen official libraries, but a total of about 120 libraries on campus. Every department has their own libraries. The Dept of Library and Information Science has (I tihnk) 4 libraries in itself.


Can any of the people there confirm the number of floors? It has some weird system like B-1-1M-2-2M-3-3M-4-4M-5-5M...


I also almost ran over a couple dozen people while trying to find a parking spot, sorry if any of you guys were one of them.


edit: pic of a similar electronic stack system

 

[kyparrish]

wtf...automatic shelf storage systems? my college's system was like "ok let's pay 3 kids on work study to shelve all the books"

 

[saxophonoia]

Every Dept. having their own libraries?? Wow. We have two libraries.......the main one and the music library .......that's all that I know of.

 

[miniMUNCH]

UofW, madison is off the hook...they have great everything.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: kyparrish
wtf...automatic shelf storage systems? my college's system was like "ok let's pay 3 kids on work study to shelve all the books"

It doesn't automatically shelve items. It is a fancy inventory retrieval system. There seem to be no pics of any part of the library that I can find. I am trying to find some now.

 

[kyparrish]

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: kyparrish
wtf...automatic shelf storage systems? my college's system was like "ok let's pay 3 kids on work study to shelve all the books"

It doesn't automatically shelve items. It is a fancy inventory retrieval system. There seem to be no pics of any part of the library that I can find. I am trying to find some now.

Oh okay...I was thinking it was like some HAL system that was running around shelving books automatically...I was like (title says...) WTF!?

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

I found something similar. You can see in this pic how all the aisles compress together to save space.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

UW Madison libraries are massive, plentiful, and absolutley KICK ASS.

If you come here, you will love the fact that journals are often in multiple libraries. You will love the fact that there are multiple copies of popular books. You will love the fact that you can return books to any library, renew over the web, reserve over the web, etc.... Seriously.

Mem has an extra floor squeezed in btween the normal floors. I don't know why they don't just call them 1-12 instead of 1a-6b or whatever it is.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Originally posted by: kyparrish

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: kyparrish
wtf...automatic shelf storage systems? my college's system was like "ok let's pay 3 kids on work study to shelve all the books"

It doesn't automatically shelve items. It is a fancy inventory retrieval system. There seem to be no pics of any part of the library that I can find. I am trying to find some now.

Oh okay...I was thinking it was like some HAL system that was running around shelving books automatically...I was like (title says...) WTF!?

lol that's what i thought too for a second and i was like "COOL!" but..

hehehe

well, my campus has craploads of libraries....giesel library (the main one) splits off in two main sections..social sciences, and science and engineering.....and they have their own subdivisions and what not that i'm not aware of....and there's a bunch of floors that contain tons of books...mainly research manuscripts published for each year; most of which is accessible online only for ucsd students and staff....non outside is allowed to view it, unless u knw someone who has ucsd's proxy server user/password.