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Category Archives: Libraries
We Still Love Our Libraries In North America
Last week, the American Institute of Architects and the American Library Association announced the winners of the AIA/ALA Library Building Awards for 2016. To qualify, an institution had to display an innovative reinvention of traditional library design. Are the winners:
Posted in Architecture, Canada, Libraries, Tech, USA
Tagged AIA, ALA, American Library Association, design
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America’s Libraries
The American Library Association has released its annual Top Ten List of Frequently Challenged Books, which is included in the ALA’s yearly State of America’s Libraries Report. You can read the report in its entirety here. The Top Ten Most … Continue reading
Hop on the Book Train
This past January, the Book Train began regularly scheduled daily runs in Korea’s Gyeonggi-do Province outside of Seoul. One car of each train is lined with book shelves stocked with everything from children’s books and poetry to novels and contemporary … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Books, ebooks, Libraries, Public Transport, Tech
Tagged Korea, Seoul, Train Travel
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How Much Do We Miss
After a recent post on the beauties of Budapest, I was discussing the tourist attractions in the Hungarian capital with a TPTP reader and was saddened to find that I completely missed out on visiting the fantastic Ervin Szabó Library. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Books, Europe, Libraries, Tourism
Tagged Budapest, Magyar Museum, Pest
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Objects That Changed The World
Cambridge University Library is celebrating its 600th anniversary this year with a physical and online exhibition called “Lines of Thought: Discoveries That Changed the World”. The historic library has grown from a small collection of manuscripts kept in a wooden … Continue reading
Posted in Books, ebooks, Europe, History, Libraries, Museums, Writing
Tagged Cambridge, Cambridge University, England, Exhibitions, Great Britain
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A Real Superhero
Muskaan Ahirwar is a 9 year-old 3rd grade student from Bhopal, India (yes that Bhopal). Every day after school she sets up a library in front of her home for the neighborhood children who can’t afford to attend school. She … Continue reading
Formulary for a new urbanism
Drawing on his interest in contemporary psychogeography and cartography, the British artist known as Fuller—aka Gareth Wood—spent a decade working on his London Town project. Created with black ink on cotton board, the intricately detailed illustrated map of Britain’s capital … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Europe, Libraries, Maps, Tourism
Tagged British Library, Cartography, London, Psychogeography
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Bookmobile On The Hoof
I always love a good bookmobile story, so I couldn’t resist the tale of Ridwan Sururi and the Kudapustaka, or “Horse Library”. With the donation of 135 books by a friend from Jakarta, the horse farmer decided to start his … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Books, Libraries
Tagged Bookmobiles, Indonesia, Jakarta, java, Purbalingga
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Travel Between The Pages 