It's a kind of Super Bowl of library systems. Once a year, King County goes head-to-head with New York and Brooklyn Public in a sorting smackdown. Each side has one hour to sort as many books as they ...

WAUKESHA — It's inefficient, slow and keeps breaking down, but the government agency that bought the nearly $200,000 automated book-sorting machine insists taxpayers are getting their money's worth.

BENTONVILLE -- The new machine meant to increase efficiency and provide better service for patrons at the public library has a new name to go with it. The library announced via a news release Thursday ...

Anyone who has taken a basic computer science class has undoubtedly spent time devising a sorting algorithm—code that will take an unordered list of items and put them in ascending or descending order ...