The automatic book cabinet: a library premiere!
For more than a month now the Physics Library has been employing an automatic book cabinet. It allows library users to retrieve documents that have been prepared for them even during an absence of the library personnel. The books ready for pickup are located in individual compartments. The user identifies herself with the barcode on her NEBIS card using the barcode reader on the cabinet. Upon authentication those compartments containing the user’s books open.
An automatically generated e-mail is then being dispatched to the library address. The purchased books are then manually booked onto the user’s library account by Physics Library staff.