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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.