The public library is a community cornerstone. While technology is drastically changing our day-to-day, making us less reliant on print, there is still a place for the library.

Today's modern library serves as a center for discovery and communication - a space to congregate, to teach and to learn. These institutions are extending their mission beyond knowledge storage to a central public space and destination for the surrounding community.

Public libraries are transforming their interiors, moving away from institutional designs of the past to environments that are collaborative, flexible and comfortable. These environments require furniture solutions that are supportive. Here are five key design strategies for consideration when modernizing the public library.