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….
Disquiet in the archives: archivists make tough calls with far-reaching consequences – they deserve our support
Stuart Kells, La Trobe University Right now, for technological, ethical and political reasons, the world’s archivists are suddenly very busy. Advances in digital imaging and communications are feeding an already intense interest in provenance, authorship and material culture. Two recent discoveries – a woman’s name scratched in the margins of an 8th-century manuscript, and John…
A rare book librarian to celebrate: Mirror of the World: Des Cowley, books and ideas
A Library Planet post by Fiona Kells On 4 August 2022 Des Cowley retired from the State Library of Victoria (SLV) after thirty-seven years of service. Des began working at the State Library in 1985 in the Acquisitions team, Reader Services. He then moved into an entry-level Librarian role in the SLV’s La Trobe Library….
Ivanhoe Library, Melbourne, Australia
A Library Planet post by Fiona Kells Situated atop the highest point in the ‘burb, the Ivanhoe Library used to occupy a three-storey 1960s Modernist building. Designed by local architecture firm Leith & Bartlett Pty Ltd, the building featured clean and simple lines, a glass curtain wall, open stairwells and a double-height, open-plan reading room…
From Denmark to Melbourne: A new Captain on everybody’s Library Planet
Back in 2018 Marie and I launched Library Planet – the crowdsource travel guide to libraries of the world. Since then so many fantastic libraries from French Polynesia to Sweden has been added to the map of libraries of the world with yours contributions and willingness to share the library love. As I wrote in the beginning of September,…
PocketBooks on top of Wine Hill: The Glass Trap Mediateka Library, Poland
Written by Roman Wojciechowski The Media Library in Zielona Góra, Poland, are established on May 17, 2012, and at the same time function as branch of the Provincial and Municipal Public Library of Cyprian Norwid in Zielona Górait. It was placed in the Palm House building located on the top of the Wine Hill. Wine…
Góra Mediów, Poland; A Library Mountain of Media
Written by Roman Wojciechowski, Andrzej Buck and Bartosz Czerniawski. For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ Góra Mediów – The Mountain of Media – in Poland is a modern library offering a pinata of literature, music, movies, computer games and other multimedia on modern media carriers. The library is an integral part…
Stockholm City Library: An aesthetic experience
Written by Library Planet friend Alejandra Quiroz Hernández Maybe you have seen it illustrating articles about academic libraries or pretty much anything related to librarianship. The most recognized features are those curvy shelfs. Are you for real? A curved stack? What kind of geometric defiance is that? In the corner of Sveavägen and Odengatan, a…
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