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...things that distinguishes us from a library is that we store by size," Lane says. In a typical library, he says, the books are of different heights and most of the space on a shelf is just...
...Lane, like most of the staff, came from a career in the warehousing industry. He was working at Iron Mountain, Inc., a record management company, when Harvard resolved to build the first incarnation of what would eventually become the depository...
...process, Lane says, also differs "because storing books is very labor-intensive: they cannot be piled up," unlike the boxes of records shelved by archival storage companies like Iron Mountain...
...imagine," Lane says, "that you're a book, and your library has slapped a bar code right in the middle of your forehead and sent you out here...
...This, apparently, is the informational "I Am a Book" tour that Lane gives several times a year to officials at other institutions looking to build similar facilities, among others. By now, Lane has his routine down...