nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqch8hfpny6tp95jqut4smklg3nx2h93dvvw6x4jsaqzwj8u6az9lq40qmju (nprofile…qmju) Perhaps physical libraries are a vestigial remnant of a pre-digital era, but I do have fond memories as a graduate student of randomly browsing books next to the ones I had been looking for, or articles after or preceding the one I was initially locating.
The late Jacques Roubaud called it "the good neighbor theorem". In a library the book you really need is always the book physically close to the one you are looking for.