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# Library and beehive ...
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/library-and-beehive/
- Published: 2009-07-20T20:09:25.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T09:14:11.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: UX

JISC has produced a short video about the library of the future …  
  
This is part of its [Libraries of the Future](https://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/campaigns/librariesofthefuture.aspx?ref=lorcandempsey.net) initiative, and is about nine and a half minutes long.  
Two quick things. First, I wish that the card catalogue was not used so much as an image of the library. Second, I liked Sarah Thomas’s suggestion that the library of the future would be like a beehive, where people could see and be seen, and congregate for conversation, food and learning.  
I was reminded of Louis MacNeice’s characterization of the British Museum Reading Room as a hive-like dome to which I have referred in these pages a couple of times:

- [That reading room again](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000719.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [The flattening manifesto](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000718.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)