Only tangentially related, but my favorite place to browse during undergrad was the sorting shelves at the university library (which were publicly accessible, t

Only tangentially related, but my favorite place to browse during undergrad was the sorting shelves at the university library (which were publicly accessible, though not advertised). When books were returned they were sorted there before being sent out to be reshelved across the library[1], so it was a daily snapshot of what books the university community thought were worth reading. I picked up a number of books there that I never would have seen otherwise. Unfortunately when I went to graduate school the sorting shelves were hidden behind the circulation desk. [1] Unless there was a hold on the book, in which case it would be kept at the circulation desk--so the most popular books never made it to the sorting shelves.