The idea
A shared library that belongs to a group, not one person. Everyone in a lab or project can add sources, leave notes on them, and pull from the collection into their own drafts. New members inherit years of the group's reading on day one instead of starting from an empty shelf.
Why it matters
Research is a team sport, but reference libraries are stubbornly individual — the same paper gets found, saved, and annotated by five people who never see each other's notes. A shared library turns that duplicated effort into a compounding asset: the group's collective reading, searchable, with everyone's annotations attached. It's especially valuable for onboarding a new student, who can absorb the lab's canon in an afternoon.
Where we are
A natural extension of the sharing and co-editing that's already in Folio, applied to the library rather than a single document. On our list; the interesting questions are around permissions — who can add, who can remove, and how a personal note differs from a shared one.
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