It also has an automated storage and retrieval system that can handle 600,000 volumes.[94] The library is named the Mary Idema Pew Library Learning and Information Commons, after the late Mary Idema Pew.[95] The U.S. Department of Energy announced the library used part of the $21 million allocated for technical assistance projects to improve energy use in commercial buildings. The library was one of only 24 projects in the United States receiving the assistantships that was funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.[96]