Amazing Libraries
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I need some time alone.
The only thing that could make me hotter right now would be if James Purefoy, naked and smothered in jam was the librarian and offered to find me something special at the top of a spiral staircase.
The only thing that could make me hotter right now would be if James Purefoy, naked and smothered in jam was the librarian and offered to find me something special at the top of a spiral staircase.
Those were amazing. Thanks for the link.
When I was a child, the local library was in a restored historic house. It was so cool and I loved it. I can see it in my mind: A two-story white house with stained glass windows and black trim. Inside, the house still had its Victorian furnishings and hardwood floors. The children's books were all on the second floor. I would find my stack of books and curl up on one of the velvet window seats to start reading until my parents were finished. They had a playground in back, just a sandbox and swingset.
Now the house is a historical landmark and the library is in a new civic building. Yes, a modern brick and chrome box. It just isn't the same.
When I was a child, the local library was in a restored historic house. It was so cool and I loved it. I can see it in my mind: A two-story white house with stained glass windows and black trim. Inside, the house still had its Victorian furnishings and hardwood floors. The children's books were all on the second floor. I would find my stack of books and curl up on one of the velvet window seats to start reading until my parents were finished. They had a playground in back, just a sandbox and swingset.
Now the house is a historical landmark and the library is in a new civic building. Yes, a modern brick and chrome box. It just isn't the same.
Funny you should say that. When I was a kid, our library was in a renovated old house, too. The librarian was a stern little lady with those black cat-eye glasses, complete with black beaded chain thingy. Our was a brick house built sometime in the 1800s. The inside was all done in cream colored paint, and there was a ton of old dark woodwork. I loved going there!
I always dreamed I'd move into that house... books and all. LOL Then they built the new library and it's got zero character.
Somehow, the beautiful setting just made the library seem magical. Going to get our library books was more "special" and not just another weekly errand.
I remember the good old days when libraries were wonderful places to go and not treated as creches by chavmums who can't be bothered looking after their own kids so they just dump them there as soon as the place opens and tell them to play on the computers as if computers should even be in a library well certainly not anywhere kids can get to them I mean have they never heard of whispering why do they have to shout so much and play games and yell and run around whatever happened to libraries being restful places of quiet contemplation like a church of the bookwormish mind?
And...breathe...
And...breathe...
I'm drooling in my seat.
My "If I Win the Lottery" house has a ginormous office/library. It's all there in my head.
My "If I Win the Lottery" house has a ginormous office/library. It's all there in my head.
You know what? I think I might print off my favourites and frame them for my spare room/library.
I would love to be able to see the site, but it's not available at this time. 
However, I thought the library in Downtown Portland, Oregon, was pretty huge and was so complex I believe I got lost at least once inside its walls.
Or was that Powell's City of Books? I can't rightly recall.
However, I thought the library in Downtown Portland, Oregon, was pretty huge and was so complex I believe I got lost at least once inside its walls.
Or was that Powell's City of Books? I can't rightly recall.
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My library isn't like that at all. Honest. Really. Please believe me.
...cries and leaves quietly...
I have to treat libraries just like a shop, albeit one where I don't have to pay . What I mean is that, when I go, I get in, get what I want and get out as quickly as humanly possible.
Would love to have a beautiful, big library to sit and read in.
Wait a minute - one of them's here! Trinity College, Dublin - wonder if you need to be a student...
. What I mean is that, when I go, I get in, get what I want and get out as quickly as humanly possible.Would love to have a beautiful, big library to sit and read in.
Wait a minute - one of them's here! Trinity College, Dublin - wonder if you need to be a student...
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*duh-rool!*
I love that my local library is the Library of Congress. There's something really reassuring about sitting in the main reading room, at your own old wooden table, waiting for the librarian to drop off the book you asked for. And while you wait you can stroll the alcoves, walking up these old wrought iron steps to the upper levels . . . and look! Here's a book of George Washington's letters!
Mind boggling. God bless Thomas Jefferson.
I love that my local library is the Library of Congress. There's something really reassuring about sitting in the main reading room, at your own old wooden table, waiting for the librarian to drop off the book you asked for. And while you wait you can stroll the alcoves, walking up these old wrought iron steps to the upper levels . . . and look! Here's a book of George Washington's letters!
Mind boggling. God bless Thomas Jefferson.
Damn! Every time I try to access the link, I get a 'Service Temporarily Unavailable' message. Why am I the only one posting here who gets that message?
Now I feel very much left out.
Now I feel very much left out.
It's not you, Sean. I was able to see it earlier, but now I get the message that the server is down for routine matinance. It'll come back up.
I am quite literally drooling, here.
I've had the good fortune to have visited one of these places (The Reading Room at the British Museum...much prettier, even, than the picture shows), but there's so many more to see....
I've had the good fortune to have visited one of these places (The Reading Room at the British Museum...much prettier, even, than the picture shows), but there's so many more to see....
Those were breathtaking. I want to see them all in person. I'm kicking myself 'cause I've visited many of those cities in recent years and didn't even think about checking into whether they had cool libraries. I guess I'll have to start my world touring all over.
I laughed when I clicked the link, because I recognized the first three pictures instantly. I spent a few hours one afternoon in the Strahov library while staying in Prague.
Y'all can be livid with envy now.
Y'all can be livid with envy now.
PS For your added enjoyment, this is another blog with a bunch of (similar) library pics. The textual commentary, however, is highly amusing. Hot Library Smut here.
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Since that link doesn't work for me I can only surmise it must be really be offensive.
What the heck is library porn?
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