The Boston Globe has an interesting read on some of the changes made at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts.
Changes that have had some amazing results:
Library use up 27%
Library Circulation up 84%!
What in the world could have happened?
Well for starters they moved 500,00 under used books from the basement and moved them “into an old mountainside military bunker”
Then they turned the place where “You could shoot off a cannon and not worry about hitting anyone” into a bustling hang out by adding a coffee bar, computers, “Vending machines [that] dispense everything from spare computer parts to notebooks” and cell phone isolation booths!
The Library Gods are dancing again!
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