The renovation will vastly improve the preservation of the historic collection and at the same time improve access to it. Twenty-five percent of the Countway's collection of early journals are believed to be the only copies in existence. Also looking to its many clinician users, the library staff plans to test ways for creating electronic access to the library for the thousands of faculty and residents practicing at affiliated hospitals. The remodeled electrical and networking system will dramatically increase this potential. It will help library users plumb the exploding realm of computerized biomedical information.
Plans call for the facility to be much more than a gateway to online databases.
With the Russian nesting dolls, you eventually get to the last treasure, but the knowledge lab could give library users a never-ending series of layers to peel back.