4. Books are sorted and processed in a warehouse in Queens
Brooklyn Public Library books are sorted and processed in a giant warehouse in Queens, along with books from New York Public Library. In fact, books from every borough except Queens pass through the massive sorting facility in Long Island City.
Known as BookOps, the 145,000 square foot facility features a 238-foot maze of conveyor belts on which books zip by. Daily, the state of the art faciilty sorts 27,000 and delivers them to 150 locations!
