If you’ve been reading Toronto Standard for a while, you might have noticed that we have a love affair with drones. 

It turns out that we’re not the only ones. The Toronto Public Library recently piloted one through its Reference Library branch and posted the resulting footage on their Youtube channel.

Now, there’s a good reason the Toronto Public Library decided to fly a loud aerial robot through one of its biggest branches—and it’s not because they wanted to annoy their patrons.

After receiving a $10.6-million infusion from multiple levels of government and the Toronto Public Library Foundation, the Library decided to invest the cash into a variety of improvements, including automated shelving, futuristic looking study pods, a suite of 3D printers and a suite of new learning spaces. The improvements are already starting to pay dividends; visits to the branch increased by 20% during their construction.

As many of the improvements have a high-tech twist to them, it seems only fitting that the TPL decided to document and advertise them with a technological marvel like the consumer aerial drone.

Watch the drone’s flight through the cavernous Toronto Reference Library below.

Image via Flickr user Ryan.
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Igor Bonifacic is the managing editor of Toronto Standard. Follow him on Twitter.

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