No Books, Please, We’re a Library

Princeton’s new library by Frank Gehry looks nice, but it’s missing something rather important: books. Books are so-o-h old school. “Libraries are becoming more a space where people come to access data and also more of a study space, research space and to some extent, a social space,'' said Gehry Partners' Craig Webb, the library's project designer. What few books it holds have been banished to a high-density storage place in the basement.