[Ads-l] News Article: Cold Book Storage at Harvard

[Shapiro, Fred]

It's amusing that the Gizmodo posting refers to the Dewey Decimal System.  It's also an exaggeration that the "vast majority" of Harvard's holdings are at the Depository.

Fred Shapiro



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Subject: News Article: Cold Book Storage at Harvard

Title: A Glimpse Inside the Hidden Vault Where Harvard Keeps Millions of Books
Author: Sarah Zhang
Website: Gizmodo
Date: February 6, 2015

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[Begin excerpt]
The Harvard Depository, some 30 miles from the Cambridge campus,
better resembles an Amazon warehouse than a library. The 200,000
square foot facility houses the vast majority of Harvard Library's
collection--some 9 million books, films, LPs, magnetic tapes, and
pamphlets sorted not by the Dewey decimal system but by size.

A fascinating new interactive documentary, Cold Storage, glimpses
inside this little-known world.
[End excerpt]

Garson

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