When the new Main Library first opened in 1996, it was a state-of-the-art facility wired with internet access at computer terminals throughout the building. People lined up before opening to get in and get a good spot. Users could access the library's catalog (called the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC)), the world wide web, subscription databases, SFPL-created databases, and other troves of information through these connected terminals. The new library made news for its embrace of digital information. In September of the same year, five months after the new Main Library's grand opening, MSNBC ran a 9 minute spot featuring SFPL and a business library in NYC in a piece about "high tech libraries" and lots of footage was collected on the 5th floor! Today the computer lab next to the Magazines and Newspapers Center is still popular as ever although some things around it have changed. Watch this video and tell us if you can recognize any familiar faces and spaces!
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