Where It’s Headed

The library data lake, from here. A companion to the medallion issue — not how the lake works, but where it’s going. Direction, not promises: what’s shipped, what’s in flight, and the horizon worth aiming at.

What’s running now (catalog, circulation, Libby, reading lists, reading levels), what’s built and waiting on a gate (a federated node of our own, encrypted customer data, authority-grade work matching), and the long aim: a catalog shared between libraries — own your data, peer to peer.

The zine

Where It's Headed one-page zine preview
The leave-behind: running now, in flight, next, and the horizon — plus the one conversation that unlocks two protected datasets.

Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library · concept zine series #4 · dbt › medallion › roadmap › retention · roadmap v1.0.0 · 2026-06