Gorgeous Hotel Library

It’s a library! No, it’s a hotel! Wait, it’s both! Gladstone’s Library is in Wales, and Gladstone himself helped stock its shelves.

Found via Departures via Book Patrol

Friday Fun: More Wonderful Bookish Images

Earlier this month, we provided links to groups of book-themed images posted by various bloggers to Pinterest.

If you missed them, you can find those groups of links here and here.

Lest March pass by without another trove of book-themed images, here’s another: this one consisting mostly of inspiring images of home bookshelves:

• AaronsBooks  (“Bookstore & Bookshelf Porn”)    
• Carol (“Shelf Life”)    
• EAE (“Library & Bookshelves”)       
• Elle Uy (“Bookshelves”)       
• Evie Jones (“Twinkly Library”)       
• Kathryn Randle (“Bookshelf”)     
• Kristín Ósk Hlynsdóttir (“Books and Books and Books”)      
• Labu (“Amazing Bookshelves”)     
• Lara  (“Libraries & Reading Nooks”)       
• LightWading “Bibliophile Plans for World Domination”)        
• meadow68 (“Books + Libraries”)      
• Peggy Martinez  (“Reading is Awesomeness”)       
• SarahBee Corente (“Books and Nooks”)          
• Shannon Martinenza (“Bookshelves/Libraries”)          
• Sydney Rice (“Bookshelves”)      

More Reading-Related Pinterest Goodness

Earlier this month, we posted a dozen links to several bloggers who’ve used Pinterest to post their favorite images  – phot0s, drawings, paintings, sculptures, quotations, posters, buttons, T-shirts, mugs, jewelry - of books, bookshelves, bookstores, home libraries, reading nooks, people reading, etc.

Here’s a list of additional bloggers with reading-related Pinterest posts that booklovers everywhere will enjoy:

• AK (“Reading”)
• Amber S. (“Bibliophilia”)  
• Annette Varcoe (“Books and Book Art”)
• Chris (“Everything about Books”) 
• Cindy Hart (“The Art of Reading”)
• Emily Anderson (“Books”)
• Hope Smitherman (“Books”)
• Jasmine Marie (“Books Books Books”)
• Jennifer Anderson (“Things Book”) 
• Jessica Carpenter (“Books”)
• Judith Pietersma (“Reading”)
• Kimmy (“Bookaholic”)
• M. C. (“Literary Love”)
• Sabine De Meyer (“Books and More Books”)
• Teressa Heafner (“Reading”)
• Ute Nöth (“Books – Reading”)

We’re glad to see that Pinterest is turning out to be as rich a resource of bibliophilia images as, say searches of Flikr, Bing, Google, etc. have long been for those of us readers who like to see their passion for books and reading represented visually.

 

Surprising Look of a New Library in Norway

The Huffington Post has a slideshow of a new public library in Norway that doesn’t look like most libraries you’ve seen. “Cozy” it’s not, but then it probably wasn’t meant to be.

Dept. of Droolworthy Libraries

You might think this gorgeous room is in a library somewhere in Europe, but you’d be wrong.

Nope, this room is one of several in The Morgan Library, located in the middle of Manhattan.

There are more photos here; Wikipedia’s article is here; and the Library’s own website is here.

What are some of your favorite libraries, here in the U.S. and elsewhere? Contact us with your faves, and we’ll post photos of them here to encourage other bibliophiles to consider putting a pilgrimage to them into their travel plans.

Dept. of Favorite Library Signs

Translation: “Food for the Soul”

Location: Entrance to the Berlin Royal Library

Photographer: “Trish,” the Ontario-based blogmeister of Desktop Retreat

Some Jaw-Dropping Modern Libraries

Although we usually post stumbled-upon photos of gorgeous old libraries, many modern libraries are worth gaping at also.

Such as these fourteen examples, courtesy the Web Urbanist.

Found via Neat New Stuff I Found on the Web This Week

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Amazing Libraries Around the World

Matador Trips has posted a photo gallery of fifteen amazing libraries worldwide. You’ll recognize some of them from previous libraries you’ve seen on the Internet, but some of these (mostly likely those located in countries with non-English language) will probably be new to you.

Found via Shelf Awareness

O Brave New Library…

Even without a single computer in sight, the interior of the Stockholm Public Library seems exceedingly futuristic, in that visually-spectacular-but-viscerally-discomfiting way a lot of recently-built libraries look, at least to some of bibliophiles. On the other hand, one really can’t defend the notion that the interior of every library must resemble the dining hall at Hogworts….

Found at Nigel Beale Nota Bene

Most Beautiful U.S. College Libraries?

Were any of your own personal favorites left off this recently-posted list?

Found at Campus Grotto; link posted to Facebook by Dartmouth librarian John DeSantis