The bookBot is the robotic system of book storage and retrieval utilized at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library.
The system consists of four 50-foot-tall robots at the center of the book-delivery system that traverse between rows of book bins.
The bookBot is able to barcode, sort, and store books (as well as other items) in more than 18,000 bins.
Visitors can watch the bookBot retrieve materials through a glass wall on the first floor of the library, called Robot Alley.

Up to two million books can be stored in the bookBot's delivery system.
Compared to storing books on traditional shelves, the delivery system can store the same number of books while only using 1/9 the size of that.
Out of approximately 25 American academic libraries, the bookBot system in the James B. Hunt Jr. Library is the only one in North Carolina.

Students and library patrons do not have direct physical access to bookBot, accessing collections instead using pre-existing browsing and borrowing features of the libraries' website.
A virtual browse tool aims to replicate the aid to discovery that physical library shelves provide by presenting sets of adjacently indexed titles.
The bookBot is the robotic system of book storage and retrieval utilized at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library. The system consists of four 50-foot-tall robots at the center of the book-delivery system that traverse between rows of book bins. The bookBot is able to barcode, sort, and store books (as well as other items) in more than 18,000 bins. Visitors can watch the bookBot retrieve materials through a glass wall on the first floor of the library, called Robot Alley.
Up to two million books can be stored in the bookBot's delivery system. Compared to storing books on traditional shelves, the delivery system can store the same number of books while only using 1/9 the size of that. Out of approximately 25 American academic libraries, the bookBot system in the James B. Hunt Jr. Library is the only one in North Carolina.
Students and library patrons do not have direct physical access to bookBot, accessing collections instead using pre-existing browsing and borrowing features of the libraries' website. A virtual browse tool aims to replicate the aid to discovery that physical library shelves provide by presenting sets of adjacently indexed titles.
James B. Hunt Jr. Library