Italy's culture ministry has acquired the vast library and archive of Umberto Eco, the late Italian medievalist, philosopher, and writer, as an official part of the cultural heritage of the state. The acquisition guarantees the conservation of this incredible legacy, while also making it accessible to students and scholars.
There a distinctive difference between color-sorted and color-coded libraries. However, the second may be a subset of the first. But in any case, we'd like to talk about libraries sorted by the colors of their books' covers today.
Libraries in Finland are not designed to be sullen book repositories that collect dust in an increasingly digital age, rather they are intended as vibrant spaces where much more can be borrowed than a stack of books.
"Street libraries are popping up on the streets of Australia giving people the chance to browse, borrow or leave books without having to register for a library card."
Early December 2016 Book Chapel — an unusual library — greeted its first visitors in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Gothic interiors and special editions only — that’s how a local publishing house Alfaret decided to shelf the results of ten years of printing work.
During my recent visit to the Book Museum, here in Moscow, I’ve made a photo of a 1000-book library, exposed there. That’s just a small part of a much larger collection that was donated to the Russian State Library (it had another name at the moment) decades ago.
