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In LAC’s new preservation facility, the
Dematic system will implement a 90 foot-tall,
high-density automated storage and retrieval
system (AS/RS) within six independent vaults
to protect and preserve Canada’s documentary
heritage treasures.
“In optimizing our storage space, the AS/
RS supports our commitment to providing
the collection until the facility's expected opening the best preservation conditions for Canada’s
in 2022, which they will inform the public of in documentary heritage, while embracing the
advance. challenge of being energy efficient, resilient
and sustainable.” – Leslie Weir, Librarian and
"We need to empty the vault in the existing Archivist of Canada
preservation centre or while we are transporting
the collection from one building to the new facility," Visit us at www.dematic.com/storage.
Ethier says, adding that these requirements should
lead to more limited restrictions in terms of public
access to the new facility. Ethier says they also had
to build the facility within a somewhat restricted
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