Look where the magazines in the post below were housed. Smart, moving shelves radically reduce aisle space. Only one aisle exists at any one time. Push buttons shift the shelves along silently on tracks, opening up an aisle where needed. Seldom-used periodicals remain fully accessible in a very compact space.
Equally cool are assorted digital equipment offerings. Need a hi-res transparency scanner or want to digitize VHS tapes? Show your library card and sit down to a computer.

Next week, we will take a free, hour-long instruction course to become eligible to use a 3D printer, paying a nominal fee for materials if we want to make something. In a few years (or sooner) household 3D printers will be as common as toasters. We’ll laugh to think we once took a course on how to use one.
iMacs stuffed with high powered Photoshop, video-editing software, Raspberry Pi and Arduino mini-computer kits … also available to any library card holder.
Main Reference Library
This is one cool place. The Fort York branch has a Digital Hub, too. More are planned, around the city.