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In a library apparatus, plural recording media are received in respective, assigned slots in a tray movable between a closed position within a housing and, selectively, in a first mode to a fully opened position affording access to all of the slots and respective, assigned recording media therein an

In a library apparatus, plural recording media are received in respective, assigned slots in a tray movable between a closed position within a housing and, selectively, in a first mode to a fully opened position affording access to all of the slots and respective, assigned recording media therein and, in a second mode, to a mail slot access position affording access to a mail slot into which an individual recording medium is selectively inserted or removed. In an insertion operation of the second mode and with a recording medium present in the mail slot in the closed position of the tray, an accessor conveys the recording medium from the mail slot, designated as a source location, to a respective slot of the tray assigned to the recording medium and designated as a destination location thereof and, in an ejection operation of the mail slot mode, conveys the recording medium from the assigned slot of the tray designated as a source location to the mail slot, designated as a destination location. The controller, further, controls the accessor to convey a selected recording medium from the respective assigned slot in the tray to a driving unit for recording and reproducing operations on the specific recording medium and, thereafter, to return the specific recording medium to the assigned slot.

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[ I claim:] [1.] A library apparatus, comprising:a tray movable in a first direction, selectively into a housing to a closed position and out of the housing, and having plural slots respectively and individually assignable to plural recording media, the plural recording media being selectively and i

[ I claim:] [1.] A library apparatus, comprising:a tray movable in a first direction, selectively into a housing to a closed position and out of the housing, and having plural slots respectively and individually assignable to plural recording media, the plural recording media being selectively and individually insertable into and removable from the respectively assigned plural slots by movement thereof in a second direction transverse to the first direction, the tray being movable out of the housing, in a first mode, to a fully open position providing access to all slots and, in a second mode, to a limited open position affording insertion, or withdrawal, of an individual medium into, or from, a mail slot comprising a predesignated one of the plural slots;a drive unit reproducing information from a selected recording medium;an accessor selectively operable for conveying a selected recording medium between the respective slot of said tray assigned thereto and said drive unit and between the mail slot of said tray and said respective slot of said tray assigned thereto;a mode setting unit for setting a selected one of the first and second modes;a medium insertion processing unit operative in said second mode and in response to a recording medium being inserted into the mail slot of the tray in the limited open position thereof and the tray then being closed, to cause said accessor to convey the inserted recording medium from the mail slot, as a source location, to the respective assigned slot of the tray, as a destination location; anda medium ejection processing unit operative in said second mode and with said tray in the closed position, to cause said accessor to convey a recording medium selected to be ejected from the respective assigned slot of the tray, designated as a source location, to the mail slot as a destination location and causing said tray, in accordance with the presence of the selected recording medium to be ejected in the mail slot, to be moved to the limited open position.