Chela Scott Weber writes: “One of the cool things about reaching mid-career is that I’ve now been around long enough to see patterns of change in the profession. I was struck by how much allowing researchers to use cameras in reading rooms has changed both their practice and ours. The work of reading and developing initial understanding of material has shifted away from being something that happens in real time as the researcher interacts with the physical collections, to something that happens after they leave the repository.”