© 2012 New York Society Library People who are melodramatic about the decline of the physical book often see booklovers as having to retreat to redoubts, sanctuaries, like people of learning retiring to monasteries in late antiquity. Things may not…
Category: Library of the Month
Anthem Library of the Month | BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE ESPANA
© 2012 Alquibla The Biblioteca Nacional de España, opposite the Recoletos underground station in Madrid, was created and opened to the public by Philip V in 1712, and is thus celebrating its tercentenary in 2012. It became a national library…
Anthem Library of the Month | BIBLIOTHECA ZI-KA-WEI
If you want to escape the remorseless development and frenetic pace of modern Shanghai and re-discover that colonial pre-1949 period when the city was an International Settlement run by foreigners with their own police force, soldiers and gunboats then, hidden…
Anthem Library of the Month | STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA
© 2009 Kelly Makepeace “During a recent trip to Melbourne, I found the State Library of Victoria a beautiful architectural environment in which to work. The Library is a lively focal point in the city for students, workers and visitors and…