Cold Storage is a 24-minute documentary short film interlinked with an expanding collection of intertextual media artifacts, an archive of experiments and experiences in and around the Harvard Depository ("HD"), Harvard's off-site library storage facility. Taken together, the film and its associated media collection explore how libraries have changed from the "shrines to knowledge" of the past to the evolving networks that interconnect vast warehouses and patrons of the present. By looking at objects as varied as books, databases, and air-conditioning systems, what conversations about libraries of the future may be prompted? http://librarybeyondthebook.org/cold_storage/
