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….
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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…
Media Centre of Alte Kanti Aarau – the school library of Einstein
Written by Caroline Süess. For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ You may never have heard of Aarau, but you surely know who Albert Einstein is From 1895-1896 Albert Einstein was a student at Alte Kanti Aarau, at that time the only grammar school in the Swiss canton of Aargau. At that time,there was obviously no such thing as a media centre the way we know it…
A temple of knowledge and wisdom – The National and University Library of Ljubljana
Written by Joachim Hassel. For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ During our holiday in Slovenia in July 2019 we stayed for a couple of days in the capital Ljubljana. This is a really nice, atmospheric and lively city worth visiting. Right in the city center and only a short way back from…
Library System of the Catholic University of Cordoba, Argentina – Embracing knowledge to empower people
Written by Paula Andrea Cassé. For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ The Library System of the Catholic University of Cordoba (UCCb) is an academic library system that seeks to be a model in the provision of library and information services supported by new and innovative technologies, with a high level of…
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