In the mid-90's I had to travel to NIST in Virginia to repair a "pick-to-light" system for document retrieval that my company had built. All I remember is a massive basement filled with rows of pigeonhole shelves with each hole containing a document that could be removed and photocopied for the requesting agency. Considering that the library must have been continuously growing since then, getting all those documents online has to be a huge task.
In the mid-90's I had to travel to NIST in Virginia to repair a "pick-to-light" system for document retrieval that my company had built. All I remember is a massive basement filled with rows of pigeonhole shelves with each hole containing a document that could be removed and photocopied for the requesting agency. Considering that the library must have been continuously growing since then, getting all those documents online has to be a huge task.