I would probably enjoy Hatcher library if I was a student there. Lots of opportunity to come across interesting books serendipitously. Unfortunately I have to borrow lots of books there as part of my job for a sort of electronic republishing company in Ann Arbor. We scan periodicals and make them available to customers online (customers including the University of Michigan). Hint - not Google, not J-stor.

Anyhow, every week or two this summer, I get a list of 50,000 pages of old periodicals I need to pick up, about 8 or 9 mail tubs full of books. I need to track them down, load them in boxes, haul them up and down through this maze in several trips on a handtruck, north to the circulation desk where the helpful librarians and student clerks are very restrained in their grumbling as I stack dozens and dozens of books for them to check out. Then I have to haul them all down to the loading dock within a reasonable time so I'm not keeping the truck driver waiting long.

That kind of frustration is what led me to create the video.