GREAT POST ABOUT WHAT LIBRARY BRANCHES COULD/SHOULD BE

Jenni Fry, my wonderful editor at ALA Editions, posted comments and photos of bank branch (ING) in Chicago (Illinois, USA) that would be a great model for a branch library—or even for a small library in a corporate setting. It is bright (orange), has coffee and healthy snacks, well-trained staff, free meeting space, free wifi, ten terminals, free newspapers and financial magazines, branded merchandise, and a buy four-coffees-get-one-free promotion to encourage return customers. And they don’t even require you to be a customer to use the facilities. What a super idea! Thanks, Jenni, for calling our attention to it!

URL: http://blog.alaeditions.org/2007/08/23/104/