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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BookSpaces: A personal project to document and celebrate libraries and other spaces dedicated to books
A Library Planet post by Rob Lee. When I was at school, students were not permitted inside my school’s library. It was a space for the librarian and her books. Those of us looking for information, inspiration or just a book to read would wait while an appropriate publication was brought from the shelves and…
World of the Book: State Library of Victoria permanent exhibition
A Library Planet post by Fiona Kells Established in 1854, barely 20 years after the city of Melbourne was founded, the State Library of Victoria is Australia’s oldest public library and one of the world’s first free libraries. (See Jes Layton’s 2019 Library Planet post on the State Library of Victoria for more information.) A…
Zahradní Město Public Library – new chocolate in an old box
Written by Tomas Horava For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ Prague´s Zahradní Město (“Garden City”) is one of Prague´s suburbs from late 60´: high rise boxes of apartments accompanied by small boxes of shops, restaurants and likewise. One of the small boxes contained a library, local branch of the Municipal Library of…
The Manchester Central Library – a community hub in neoclassical surroundings
Written by Concetta La Spada, library tourist from Cambridge For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ In early July, I visited Manchester for the CILIP Conference. I had never been to Manchester and, during my free time, I could visit this city of such important history for the UK. During the Industrial Revolution…
Vejen public Library, Denmark – a toy Library and a roof garden
Written by Library Planet editor Marie Eiriksson, library consultant, Denmark. For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ Vejen Public Library is a newly built Danish Library and the main Library of the municipality of Vejen, Jutland. The municipality has three other locations. The new main Library opened in october 2019. Arriving by train…
Nørrebro Public Library – a new and buzzing community living room
Written by Library Planet editor Christian Lauersen, director of Libraries and Citizen Services in Roskilde Municipality, Denmark. For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanetnet.wordpress.com/contribute/ I live on Nørrebro, a part of Copenhagen. It is a neighborhood what are characterized with a large amount of diversity when it comes to ethnical background, economic status and social…
Delft Library, Cape Flats, City of Cape Town, South Africa – The Library is where the heart is❤️
Written by Stine Sørensen For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ Together with Auntie B, I was around Cape Flat Yesterday. The houses are close to each other and are built in everything from bricks to sand and metal. In the middle of Delft is the library – next to a large…
Marrickville Library and Pavilion, Sydney, Australia – Magic in Marrickville
Written by Paul Jewell (Business Librarian, Western Sydney University) @pdjewell For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanetnet.wordpress.com/contribute/ Marrickville Library main entrance (picture courtesy of Inner West Council Library and History Services) Acknowledgment of Country Firstly, we recognise the Library is situated on land which was home to the Gadigal and Wangal Peoples of the Eora Nation. The library site…
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