Cover photo: (Los Angeles Times photo illustration; Photos by Deborah Netburn/Los Angeles Times, USC) I’ve been thinking about space. Not just the physical layout of a library, but something closer to the heart. What is space in the library and how do we define it? More importantly, who gets to define it? In his essay “Age of Participation” Michael Stephens (2016) recounts a story about a museum in India that invited community members to curate exhibits made out of their own personal items. Imagine learning about your neighbor through the artifacts of their identity; imagine knowing your neighbor as art. This is creating human-centered services: a model that not only…