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….
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Worlds of Words, University of Arizona, USA – the largest collection of global children’s books in the United States!
Post written by: Judi Moreillon, Lacey Nehls, and Breanna Tsingine For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanetnet.wordpress.com/contribute/ Credit: Line and Space, LLC Ron Marx and grandson snuggle up on one of the deep window seats, exploring books from the collection. The backdrop features the illustrations of David Christiana, which are present throughout…
Melbourne Cricket Club Library, Australia – the best kind of secret
Written by Kirby Fenwick Pictures by David Studham For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanetnet.wordpress.com/contribute/ The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely of places—so said Roald Dahl. I thought about his words this week when I stepped through the doors of a library that was only recently brought to…
ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics – A Crystal Palace for the dismal science
Written by Birgit Gummersbach For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanetnet.wordpress.com/contribute/ The cruise ships and ferries entering the port of Kiel offer the best view of the spectacular building sitting on the waterfront: a long, elegant curve of glass and concrete, four stories high. This is the home of the ZBW –…
Ulyianovsk Regional Scientific Library, Russia – a library with a ballroom
Written by Ульяновская областная научная библиотека For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ Ulyianovsk Regional Scientific Library is the one the sight of the Ulyanovsk. In 1924 it was named after is V. Lenin. It is located in former Nobility assembly house. Public Library closely connected with the name of the great…
Fondation Jardin Majorelle’s Research Library, Morocco – located in the musée Yves Saint Laurent
Written by Juan Palao Gómez For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ Fondation Jardin Majorelle’s Research Library The library of the Fondation Jardin Majorelle — located in the musée Yves Saint Laurent marrakech— is a research centre welcoming a broad range of users: Moroccan and foreign researchers, anthropologists, historians, archaeologists, curators, artists…
La Bibliothèque universitaire de Belle Beille – Library, art Gallery and Feminism Archive!
Written by Nathalie Clot For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ La Bibliothèque universitaire de Belle Beille is a academic library, in Angers, a french town of 150 000 inhabitants in the Loire Valley. Build in 1993 on a green out-of-the-town campus, it offers 1000 places, and only 300 of them a…
Finding an ancestor at the Morrin Centre in Quebec City
Written by Claire Sewell For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ The Morrin Centre is located in Quebec City and is also home to the city’s only English-language library. Originally built as a military barracks in 1712, it became a prison in 1813 and was refurbished to house Morrin College in 1862….
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