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# The heart of the University
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/the-heart-of-the-university/
- Published: 2008-05-13T19:17:04.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T09:24:38.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: UX

![heart.PNG](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/heart.PNG)  
Recently, it seems to me I have heard the sentiment that the library is no longer the ‘heart of the university’ expressed several times.  
If not the heart, which organ? I wonder ….  
Photo credit: taken by my colleague Günter Waibel at Sterling Memorial Library, Yale.