Take a look at this YouTube video "The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library: How It Works" to see a way to store books beneath a library and retrieve them on request for patrons. And there's a cool dome to study in! It's another approach to focusing on public space, moving collections out of the center, beyond the removal of physical items and replacing them with digital versions. Very interesting.
To post occasional new thoughts or links to new developments in library technology. Want to see something more here? Do you have a suggestion for an addition to the book or a problem you'd like me to discuss? Please email me at techcompanion@gmail.com or add a comment to an existing post. Thanks!
John J. Burke is the director of the Gardner-Harvey Library on the Middletown
regional campus of Miami University. John holds an MSLS from the
University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and a BA in history from Michigan State
University. He is the author of the Neal-Schuman Library
Technology Companion: a Guide for Library Staff (5th edition, 2016) and Makerspaces: a Practical Guide for Librarians (2014).