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Category Archives: Libraries and Librarians
Bookshelf Porn
This creators of this enormous, book-lined staircase from Levitate Architects had this to say about the stunning loft-library apartment design: “Our proposal extended the flat into the unused loft space above, creating a new bedroom level and increasing the … Continue reading
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Nigella Lawson, cookbook author and Food Network celebrity, in her home library. via beautiful-libraries
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What if you had an eccentric old uncle who handed you the keys to a rundown turn-of-the-century library? from oldhouseonline: Left over from a turn-of-the-century summer colony, this library remained surprisingly unaltered. Now it has been restored outside and updated inside … Continue reading
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Wiblingen Monastery Library, Ulm, Germany The Wiblingen Monastery was founded in 1093, and remodeled in the Baroque style in the 18th century. Over the library is an inscription: “In quo omnes thesauri sapientiae et scientiae” (In which are stored all … Continue reading
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Famous Folk’s Libraries, Real and Fake.
Obviously, you can tell a lot about a person by their books. I’ll go so far as to say that you can tell practically everything about a person by his/her books. Celebrity’s phony books really crack me up. It’s better … Continue reading
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Thought in Cold Storage.
Cradley Heath Library in Birmingham. Not the Super Library. Finally, the city of Birmingham is scheduled to open its lauded new Super Library, in the works for a decade and tipping the cash register at $301 million. Ten blisteringly new … Continue reading
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What’s funny about a grown man crying over the closing of his local library – and every other free library in the city of Philadelphia? Nothing. Except if you are the Huffington Post who chose to mock such a man. … Continue reading
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Libraries in Cool Films
Because some day soon there won’t be library scenes in movies anymore.
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