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wordsbydan:

More great quotes about libraries on photos of beautiful libraries

After the amazing response to the last one of these I made, I’ve put together more great library quotes - this time adding in your suggestions - including one from this awesome song. Keep quiet and read books:

1. George Peabody Library - Baltimore
2. Biblioteca Joanina, University of Coimbra - Portugal
3. Royal Library of the Monastery of El Escorial - Spain
4. Melk Monastery Library - Austria
5. Queen’s College Library, Oxford University - Oxford
6. Abbey Library St. Gallen - Switzerland
7. Strahov Monastery Library - Prague

Click to see full size. Support your local library, kids. Read part one.

Libraries give us Power Books make us Free by Mina Bach

A celebration of the public library system, reading and books.
150 x 240mm, 140 pages, hand bound.

wordsbydan:

7 Great quotes about libraries on photos of beautiful libraries

With libraries around the world in danger of extinction, Flavorwire posted a series of great quotes about libraries from famous writers. I decided to pair them with some of the world’s most beautiful libraries. You’re welcome;

1. Trinity College Library - University of Dublin
2. University Club Library – New York City
3. Admont Abbey Library – Austria
4. Real Gabinete Português de Leitura – Rio de Janeiro
5. Suzzalo Library at the University of Washington – Seattle
6. Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
7. Canadian Library of Parliament – Ottawa

Click on the photo to see it full size. Support your local library, kids.

sixpennybook:

Do you feel a gnawing guilt over all the spines you’ve cracked, all the pages you’ve dog-eared? Oh, the books that have suffered for your love!

Now you can assuage your conscience with the Adopt-A-Book program from the Smithsonian Libraries. Through the program, you can choose a damaged or deteriorating book and provide for its conservation. Don’t you want to preserve that old book smell for the ages?

“About ten days after the troops entered [Basra], the library was completely burnt down. We carried about 30,000 books to the restaurant and to our homes. Then, we transferred them from the restaurant to our homes in my own car and in cars belonging to the employees. Most of these books and manuscripts were rare and important ones. Regrettably, we lost a lot of books in the fire,” she said.

(Source: themugglelibrarian)

bookriot:

This subway library has posters of books and scannable barcodes—zap ‘em with your phone to get a 10-page preview while you ride!

Visit your local library! 

(Source: televandalist, via deamhan)

collectivehistory:

London readers continue to browse at a bombed-out library, WWII. 

“My local library branch started doing this “Blind Date with a Book” thing, thought you guys might like it. The shelf was full when we got there, but was like this as we were leaving. The books are wrapped in paper and have different designs on them, and then a few words vaguely describing the subject matter of the book. Things like “Drama”, “Plot Twists”, “espionage”, etc. The only thing exposed on the book is the barcode that you use to scan the book out. I thought it was a pretty cool idea.”

(via awesomearchives)

some-atoms:

I think about this all the time and I find it mindblowingly beautiful. 

(Source: skylertyler)