In the Boston Globe Anne Gray Fischer profiles The Library Test Kitchen at Harvard --:
Dedicated to rescuing physical, book-dense libraries from obsolescence, the team of students and instructors dream up designs that, as Schnapp says, "create a hybrid space where analog and digital coexist."Some interesting ideas (and some terrible ones: "the Welch Medical Library did away with public workspace altogether, closing its doors to users and moving its resources online. Books are requested online and delivered to offices and mailboxes around campus a few days later" ...).