As a somewhat traditionalist physicist, and having grown up around university campuses, I love university libraries, and probably use them more than most scient

As a somewhat traditionalist physicist, and having grown up around university campuses, I love university libraries, and probably use them more than most scientists. It was a bit of a revelation to me when my partner, a historian, casually complained about the limits on simultaneously checked out items being a nuisance. Until that point, I had always assumed that the usual limits for scholars at university libraries, often over 100 books, were just there to prevent extreme abuse, not with the expectation that anyone would regularly reach them.