Patent ID: 7876525

Claim:
A method of expanding a storage media library, the library including an enclosure, at least one media drive, a media rack, a robotic system for picking and placing a plurality of storage media in the media rack, and a processor for controlling the robotic system that records storage locations of the storage media in the media rack for subsequent retrieval, the method comprising: removing a floor panel of the enclosure from a plurality of fixed supporting flanges provided on the enclosure by sliding the floor panel on the flanges; assembling a module including a supplemental media rack to the fixed supporting structure on the enclosure at the location from which the panel of the enclosure was removed, reassembling the floor panel to a floor opening on the opposite side of the module that is assembled to the enclosure, wherein the floor opening is provided with replication flanges, wherein the floor panel is reassembled to the floor opening by sliding the floor panel on the replication flanges; and updating the processor to make available location data relating to the supplemental media rack.