Stuart Kells, La Trobe University Last year two Danish librarians – Christian Lauersen and Marie Eiriksson – founded Library Planet: a worldwide, crowdsourced, online library travel guide. According to them, Library Planet is meant to inspire travellers “to open the awesome book that is our world of libraries, cities and countries”. The name of the…
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The Kyoto International Manga Museum, Kyoto, Japan
A Library Planet post by Annie Wu. Kyoto International Manga Museum was established to gather, preserve and exhibit manga materials and to be a centre for research into manga culture. The space simultaneously serves as a library and a museum, with around 300,000 manga products in its collection, including books, periodicals and woodblock caricature prints….
Thailand Creative & Design Center Bangkok Library –Greater with Creativity
Written by Sara Ulloa, Librarian from Peru. Lima For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanetnet.wordpress.com/contribute/. Location The Thailand Creative & Design Center (TCDC) has been one of my best discoveries in the Library world this year so far. This place is a resource and information center especially for designers and innovators,…
Bagan district public library, Myanmar – a library amongst the buddhist tempels
Written by Morgane Soltesz Bourel For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ I visited Myanmar at the end of 2017, and I visited the public library in Bagan district, placed in Nyaung-U, in Mandalay region, in central Myanmar. Nyaun-U “village” is a town in the Bagan archeologic buddhist site, 50 km² with…
Roving robots, kitchens and creativity at Tampines Regional Library
Written by Phil Segall For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ Tampines Regional Library, Singapore, is without doubt one of the most technologically advanced libraries in the world. At its entrance patrons are greeted by roving robot book return units – machines frequently to be seen followed along their designated route around the ground floor…
Wat Damnak Center for Khmer studies library – A library in a Buddhist oasis
Written by Rut Costa Fornaguera For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ Located at the east side of the river Siem Reap in Cambodia, Wat Damnak is a peaceful Khmer microcosmos. It houses the largest pagoda in downtown, a primary school, two charities, a sewing academy for young local women and the…
Library of Songdo – No shoes in this pastel party of a library
Written by Daphna Fischer, Direktor Hof-Hasharon Library, Shefayim, Israel. For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ I want to tell you about a library I visited in Korea. My husband and I were on a fly-over and decided to tour the city. Songdo is a beautiful city, but empty from people. Only…
Cheongun Literature Library – a mix of modern and traditional
Cheongun Literature Library (청운문학도서관), Seoul, South Korea Written by Nicole Almanza For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ A mix of modern special library and Korean traditional Hanok architecture. In the Spring of 2018, while interning abroad in Seoul, Korea, a friend and I visited the Cheongun Literature Library. We arrived at…
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