The entrance hall of the James B. Hunt Library in Raleigh, NC features video displays and touch-screen kiosk in The Emerging Issues Commons. NC State University is opening the nearly completed James B. Hunt Library for a media tour Tuesday. The hypermodern new library, which squeezes is stacks into a small, robot-accessible-only cub so that it can make room for a host of technology-enhanced rooms for collaborative learning and study. opens in January. TAKAAKI IWABU — Takaaki Iwabu, The News & Observer