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Andrew gave me a tour of the Johns Hopkins library today. we met up because we're both in Baltimore for graduations (my sister's, his girlfriend's).

aren't these bookshelves cool, guys?! I mean, quiet?!
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  • Blake Whitman staff 1 year ago
    my library back in college had these... but I never saw them because I never went to the library. but they are very slick...
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  • Joel Curran 1 year ago
    Ive never seen 2 people more excited in a library before.
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  • archie 1 year ago
    I'm surprised at how quitely they moved. Makes me even more nervous that one of them will sneak up and squish me when I least expect it.
  • cadydidwhat 1 year ago
    No doubt; it's like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Nerds. LOL.
  • Janie 1 year ago
    temple of nerds, haha, sorry that was too good.
  • Ted Roden staff 1 year ago
    Agreed. I got super nervous just watching them move... what if someone walks in at the last minute!?
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  • Caroline Martin 1 year ago
    My mom used to work there when I was little! I went to the Take Your Daughter to Work Day one year with her and she let me play with them, but then after that I was so afraid one day someone would squish her while she was between them. :(
  • Andrew Pile staff 1 year ago
    I tried to squish my friends a few times, they have motion detectors.
  • Caroline Martin 1 year ago
    That's a relief.
  • Thomas Murray 1 year ago
    It's a relief they have motion detectors, but it's quite unsettling that you tried to squash your friends.
  • walt 6 months ago
    g1 bra
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  • dalas verdugo staff 1 year ago
    We had ones like that at ETC, but they were hand-cranked.
  • Caroline Martin 1 year ago
    And at WITR.
  • LCF 1 year ago
    and at UMAC
  • dalas verdugo staff 1 year ago
    I wanted a show on WITR, but the training process seemed too lengthy. I had a show at another college just by showing up every week.
  • Carleton 1 year ago
    And at Northeastern
  • Spatulated 1 year ago
    I have a show on WITR - tune in sometime, heh
  • isaacwayton 1 year ago
    when is your show? would love to check it out :-)
  • Khamis Hammoudeh 1 year ago
    And @ Arizona State.
  • William FitzGerald 5 months ago
    the national archive does too
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  • pierrelourens 1 year ago
    Mm. Nice threadless t-shirt Andrew :)
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  • Jimi Heffernan 1 year ago
    ...so thats why katie went there...
  • kateconnor 1 year ago
    haha yea - that was the main draw for the school.
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  • JD 1 year ago
    You should play games in there. Like someone picks a book that you have to find and why you try and find it, the bookcases try to smash you.
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  • davidxcarroll 1 year ago
    that seems really necessary. regular libraries' aisles are way too open all the time.
  • dunno 1 year ago
    haha
  • andrea 1 year ago
    it's an effort to conserve space; do you think they have surplus space?
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  • rayne.vieger 1 year ago
    this is really amaaaaaa-ZING! i've never seen bookshelves like these...there should be little areas within the shelves for people to study..like desks and bunks or something..so that when you open the aisles there are students studying...in the shelves....mmk whatever, i'm not even thinking about it that much.......but, no seriously, i'm going to this library like....now.
  • Blake Whitman staff 1 year ago
    that is my worst nightmare.
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  • Gilgamesh 1 year ago
    We have those at our school too
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  • Si 1 year ago
    When we were given a tour of our library at Uni, we were shown a room with a journal collection on these kinds of bookshelves. When question time arrived, instead of asking about what journals there were or how they were organised etc. all anyone cared about was "if I put my arm in there and then press the button, will it crush my arm?" and "if I'm in there and someone else presses the button, will I get crushed?"

    I can't remember the answers, but it was probably a yes on both fronts.
  • andrea 1 year ago
    Lol
  • Buck Flashroy 1 year ago
    Sounds like a challenge. I wonder if you could climb up and over the top in time before you were turned into a Panrucker pancake.
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  • TheThinBuddha 1 year ago
    wow!
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  • Matthew Gruman 1 year ago
    The new library at the U of British Columbia (ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/) has its stacks in a climate controlled room that's browsed only by a robot. And robots are always the _______ of the future, aren't they?
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  • seth 1 year ago
    I wonder if they could crush things? Do they have elevator like tendencies?
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  • .dub 1 year ago
    those shelves are
    A) genius.
    B) friken sweet.
    C) from the future. who timetravled to get them?
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  • Pam Newman 1 year ago
    that's super cool!
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  • jess 1 year ago
    Whoa is that MSE library? I'm going there next year but they didn't show us the moving shelves on the tour! so awesome
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  • SaraLily 1 year ago
    those must mean the library can hold 2wice as many books & for me, who loooooooooves everything about books, would DIE IN HEAVEN!!! haha i wish my library would invest in some of those...
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  • We made a short called 'The Button' about crushing someone in similar mechanical stacks at our library on campus.
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  • Obar 1 year ago
    this reminds me of *i think* the first resident evil game, there was a button that moved book shelves like that.
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  • JMan 1 year ago
    That's so cool!!!!!
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  • Perez 1 year ago
    someday, people will live in places like those shelves
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  • Dan Masquelier 1 year ago
    I would totally smash my friends in the fiction section if our library had that!
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  • Scruff_E_Guy 1 year ago
    We all seem to have the same morbid imagination here....how to squish someone.....
    where's my ex wife?
  • Mike Lemovitz 1 year ago
    That's just because the shelves don't appear to move fast enough for other college library exploits.
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  • Erick C. 1 year ago
    those have been around since the late 90s. get with it, bro. :)
  • Scruff_E_Guy 1 year ago
    yes, but how many people have been squished in them since the late nineties?
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  • erica a. 1 year ago
    we have those at the hospital i work at. we squish people in them 'cause ours don't have motion detectors, there's just a strip at the bottom that you kick if you're in there. sometimes we have races seeing if we can make it to the wall and back out before it closes. then we try it on computer chairs. so many great things can come from them.
  • Blake Whitman staff 1 year ago
    that actually sounds really fun.
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  • Jozef Garcia 1 year ago
    Pfft that is so old news. I actually have several in my apartment filled with Porn and more porn.
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  • Anna Lodwick 1 year ago
    We have those at WAC, they actually remind me of pages turning in a book!
  • Jakob Lodwick 1 year ago
    best comment award goes to Anna
  • Cait Oppermann staff 1 year ago
    Agreed.
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  • We've got those at UC. They are indeed awesome. I feign library trips to go play in them.
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  • mimoody 1 year ago
    Funny how when the handcrank versions of the sliding shelves came out, I was all nostalgic for the old wooden creaky stationary shelves. And now that these are out I'm all nostalgic for the handcrank ones (like when you would have to crank really hard to close up several little gaps between several shelves down a whole line). So maybe there are two kinds of people in the world: those who love the new technology unabashedly, and those who get nostalgic about the old (let's call the first group the "Blu-Rays" and the latter the "Betamax Gang"). Hmmmm.
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