The Best Is Yet to Be

#Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism. –Neil Gaiman https://bit.ly/3Z7h6iD

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Beautiful library in Munich Bavaria

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Beautiful library in Munich Bavaria

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With warm 🎄 wishes I send you greetings from Polish librarians, who made these wonderful Christmas trees – from books, old computers, and… library catalog cards!

(via Bookish Christmas from Poland!)

Love the tree made of library catalog cards!

The calm feeling of wandering through an old and empty bookshop ♡

State Law Library 

Des Moines, Iowa, USA

The Cincinnati Old Main Library, aka “Old Main”, was once one of Cincinnati, Ohio’s most beautiful buildings. Now it’s a parking garage. The old library building, located in Downtown Cincinnati at 629 Vine St., a few blocks from the current Main Library, was demolished in 1955.

The Main Library occupied a prominent position in downtown Cincinnati since 1874. Above the entrance were busts of of William Shakespeare, John Milton and Benjamin Franklin. Inside – the interior designed by architect J.W. McLaughlin (November 1, 1834 – March 4, 1923) – Old Main featured cast-iron book alcoves and a towering atrium with a skylight ceiling. Of that dramatic atrium, Harpers Weekly said: “The first impression made upon the mind on entering this hall is the immense capacity for storing books in its five tiers of alcoves, and then the eye is attracted and gratified by its graceful and carefully studied architecture…” The building closed in 1955, when the “New Main Library” opened at 800 Vine Street, opened.

Via flashbak.com and Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County

Dedikodu zehirlidir!Gözlerinle görmediğin şeylere kulaktan dolma laflarla inanma!

Do you like visiting libraries or bookstores when you travel?

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Bromley House Library in Nottingham, England. 

Bookworm’s Paradise: Library in China Houses 1.2 Million Books In Its Majestic Curve Walls Nestled in the Binhai Cultural District, China, the Tianjin Binhai Library is an answered prayer, a dream come true for every book lover sprawled all across the globe.

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Meet the oldest library in the world, Khizanat al Qarawiyyin in Fes, Morocco.

It was founded in the 9th century by a woman, Fatima al Fihria, and is being restored by another woman, Aziza Chaouni, a native of Fes, 12 centuries later. To step into it is to be in the presence of overwhelming history, the scent of old books permeating the air, the weight of so much ancient knowledge forcing you to stand in awe.

And it’s just plain gorgeous.

http://bookriot.com/2016/07/18/a-sneak-peek-into-the-gorgeous-oldest-library-in-the-world/