New Seattle Central Library is on the cutting edge of technological advances

Libraries have always been in the information business, but technology has expanded the definition of what “information” means — and exploded the list of what people expected from their libraries even just 18 years ago, when Central got its first computer. (It was a single donated Apple IIe.)

To Coulter, the shift in what libraries provide is only an extension of the institution’s historic role of providing information to those who can’t otherwise afford it, and to provide the services patrons want.

A library staffer is developing software that will provide a floor map diagramming each book’s location, so the catalog will tell you a book’s call number and show you exactly where to find it.

My library could use this.