A quiet moment
Humanities Reading Room, British Library, London, November 2023 Copyright Debbie Smyth, 19 November 2023 Posted as part of Silent Sunday …
Pegasus is Knocking at the Door
These beautiful door handles, featuring Pegasus, adorn the main doors of the National and University Library in Ljubljana. This library was established in 1774 but has undergone a number […]
Looking up at Manchester Central Library
-Look Up, Look Down Challenge, Week 64 Every Thursday, I publish a post containing photo(s) taken from above or below, and invite you to join in the challenge by posting your own […]
Liliputian Library
Informal, ad-hoc libraries seem to be popping up all over. This one in Oakland, California, might be tiny but it is beautiful. **************************************************************************** Lilliputian Library, reblogged from Oakland Daily Photo. This little […]
A is for… Analphabetic
The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines analphabetic as lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books, and as one of my favourite literary characters commented: “To the uneducated, an A […]
John Rylands Library
“There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.” Michel de Montaigne The John Rylands Library in Manchester is housed in a beautifully striking late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on […]
A is for… Alphabet
At the Old Library in Trinity College, Dublin the public are granted access to the 65 metre-long Long Room. As with the British Library, Trinity College Library is a legal […]
Happy 40th Birthday, British Library
The British Library celebrated its 40th birthday today. The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is a legal deposit library, and as such it receives copies of every book produced in Britain, […]
Travel with Intent 