College libraries and everyone else

College libraries and everyone else is a nice article from the Lynchburg News & Advance.

“The point is, we tend to think of college libraries as being mostly repositories of dusty textbooks and long-forgotten graduate thesis papers. We also assume they would be off-limits to the general public.

Maybe some of those crusty old citadels still remain, but the Sweet Briar library epitomizes a growing trend – interaction with the “outside” community rather than isolation from it.