The solution process entailed an approach that considered books as “parts”. Computer programming to control inventory has been used in industrial and commercial environments for over twenty-five years . . . so why not with books? The expansion increased the total square footage of this University Library to 221,273 square feet, housing 1,470,000 volumes plus an additional 25% capacity of other library materials. Its most unique feature is an automated storage/ retrieval system (ASRS) which will ultimately store 950,000 less frequently used volumes. Books with no circulation in the past three years, periodicals over fifteen years old and reference materials that are no longer current are kept in the automated system. 480,000 such books have been loaded into the system. B

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