My Beautiful Libraries
June 25
What good bookbuff doesn’t love a library? And I mean heart and soul want-to-roll-around-in-the-dust-and-must-from-the-shelves type of love. Here are a few shots of some absolutely beautiful beehived bibliotheques from Curious Expeditions. Our own State Library of Victoria makes the cut, and I also love the dramatic red banisters in the Handelingenkamer, and the rattling-bones gothic feel of the Chained Library in Hereford, where rare books were once kept linked to the shelves to prevent stealing.
JA
Library of the Benedictine Monastery of Admont, Austria
Old British Reading Room, British Museum, London, England
Chetham’s Library, Manchester, UK
Hereford Cathedral Chained Library, Hereford, England
Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-Generaal Den Haag, the Hague, Netherlands
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Comments
25 Jun 09 at 7:55
I like this one in Porto:
http://erraticmusings.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c003a53ef0105362e6384970b-400wi
Google image search 'livraria lello' for more
...25 Jun 09 at 11:08
I like this one:
http://nchcplteens.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/ghostbusters.jpg
...27 Jun 09 at 18:55
The Hereford chained library makes me think of something I once read, that you can judge a society by what it guards most carefully. Wouldn't it be lovely to live in a society that thought ideas were more important than money?
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