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 […]
-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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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, […]