PRESTON — In his office at the King County Library System distribution center, in front of a crowd of cameramen and reporters, Tony Miranda called up his counterpart in New York to compare results in ...

Once a year for the past five years, the New York and Brooklyn Public Libraries have faced off against Washington’s King County Library in a battle of the mechanical book sorters. In the most recent ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Volunteers with the Bay County library Foundation are sorting through 20,000 donated books to stock the free library on Wheels... or “F.L.O.W.” This year marks their ...

A couple of years ago Salvatore Magaddino, who oversees the distribution of materials for the New York Public Library, complained at a meeting that he was having trouble recruiting book sorters, the ...

WAUKESHA — It's inefficient, slow and keeps breaking down, but the government agency that bought the nearly $200,000 automated book-sorting machine insists taxpayers are getting their money's worth.

A new half-a-million dollar computerized sorting system at the Napa library now whisks returned books from patrons’ hands to sorting carts and back to shelves faster and more efficiently than ever ...