antipodea:

Photos of Stuttgart’s incredible new library, which was 3 years in the making.

(via bookporn)

books-forever:

The Bodleian at Oxford, oh to get into that collection.

(via teachingliteracy)

neil-gaiman:

I’m a graduate student earning my master’s in library science, and everyone asks me, “Why are you doing that? Libraries are going extinct because of e-readers!” Obviously, I don’t agree, but I’m curious - what’s your opinion on libraries today and in the future, and do you own an e-reader?

 if-inconvenient

I have a Kindle somewhere, but I have no idea where it is any more. On the other hand, I know where the Kindle apps are on my phone, tablet, iPad and Macbook Air, which makes knowing where the actual Kindle is irrelevant.

Let’s see… we’re entering an age of too much information, in which knowledge and information retrieval and navigation are going to be some of the most important skills you can possibly possess.  You are being trained in library science, which is knowledge and information  categorisation, management and retrieval. And someone wants to know if your job is going to be extinct because we may not have as many places with lots of paper books any longer?

I think libraries are more vital now than they have ever been. And whatever form books take in the centuries and millennia to come, we will always need librarians.

thelibrarianontherun:

The wondrous database that reveals what books Americans checked out of the library a century ago.

(via librarianista)

kateoplis:

Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart

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library-love:

Fantasy Library

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librarianista:

howtobreakapiano:

The Old Library (by (Erik))

nybooks:

Charles Simic, A Country Without Libraries

I don’t know of anything more disheartening than the sight of a shut down library. No matter how modest its building or its holdings, in many parts of this country a municipal library is often the only place where books in large number on every imaginable subject can be found, where both grownups and children are welcome to sit and read in peace, free of whatever distractions and aggravations await them outside. Like many other Americans of my generation, I owe much of my knowledge to thousands of books I withdrew from public libraries over a lifetime. I remember the sense of awe I felt as a teenager when I realized I could roam among the shelves, take down any book I wanted, examine it at my leisure at one of the library tables, and if it struck my fancy, bring it home.

Photo: Hartland Four Corners, Vermont, 1994. Robert Dawson’s photos of libraries are currently on view in the exhibition Public Library: An American Commons at the San Francisco Public Library.

(Source: nybooks, via librarianista)

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prettybooks:

(by erving)

elizabetholivia:

Prague, Czech Republic

fallenjuno:

lost in the world , reading for answers .

(Source: deniisu)

(Source: deniisu)