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Boaz, Jim and Adam came to Columbia for a TSI Steering Committee meeting. A highlight was touring the new NYPL Library Services Center which combines technical services for New York Public Library and Brooklyn Public Library. Book Ops is located in a rather desolate section of Long Island City.
We were especially impressed by the futuristic book sorting machine which reads barcodes and queries data from their OPAC to quickly sort hundreds of books a day for transport by location and call number to the branch libraries.
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