Leslie recently sent me an article about a new, awesome public library in Kansas City.
Check out this article for other images of this incredible library. It is so beautiful that people even get married there!
What is the most awesome public library that you have ever experienced?
I love looking at libraries!! I received a calendar a couple of years ago that featured libraried from around the world!!
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ReplyDeleteThe Kansas City,Missouri area is the HEART OF AMERICA where, proudly, I came from. In spite of the humidity, that is where I am found during the summer.
Wow. I have never seen anything like that. I like the Scottsdale Library. They have a few American Indian arts but, "WOW, that's about all I can say, WOW." (Lily's Purple Plastic Purse, Henkes)
ReplyDeleteThe most impressive library I have ever been in was the old bookmobile that came to our neighborhood - south of Foothill Village - when I was very young. I was so amazed that there was such a wonderfull place as a library, and that I could take books home to read and re-read. Some say your very first is the best, and though the bookmobile was small and cramped, it will always be the best one to me.
ReplyDeleteI know how Joseph feels about the bookmobile, that was my first school library. However my first libraries were the Murray and Midvale, Utah libraries. The best part of summer vacation was visiting those two libraries. I loved them.
ReplyDeleteI also have another favorite library that doesn't exist any more. It was the library that my siblings and I would create at home. During the summer, we would create a library with the books we had at home. We took envelopes to make the card holders for the inside of the back of the book. Then we would make library cards for each of the books and check them out to each other.
Apparently you were destined to become a librarian. :o) I love this childhood memory!
DeleteSusette, what a special library with your siblings! I also love the Murray and Midvale libraries for those are the libraries I took my children to when they were growing up. I was privileged to be on the Murray Library Board when Dan Barr was Director and the library underwent renovation bringing about many improvements and added beauty.
DeleteI'm lusting after this library! I too loved the bookmobile. I tell the kids about it when we read "My Librarian is a Camel".
ReplyDeleteI loved the library in Santa Fe where I grew up. It was in an old builing with beautiful wood bookcases and tile floors rght off the plaza but connected to the Govenor's Palace. We went to Santa Fe over spring break last year and I was a little disapointed it was not the public library anymore, it has become the official state document library. Visiotrs are welcome so I had to go in and go downstairs where the children's library used to be. The sun was streaming in on the same wood furniture and the smell of old books just took be back to the many afternoons I spent wandering the stacks looking for books. I was supposed to be in charge of my sibling while my mother shopped but immersed in reading, I was obliviousto their antics. I felt a little sad other children would get to enjoy this library but grateful the building was preserved.
ReplyDeleteI have never met a library that I didn't like! Mine from my youth were wood-y and cool (important in the South!) and my college had 4 to choose from to study in. The most recent one that I have been impressed with is the Springville, UT Library - so light, bright, colorful and an intuitive shelving system. I have to say that I am always impressed when I visit our Main Library - it is magic to me!
ReplyDeleteI grew up in rural Utah -- the bookmobile was the highlight of the week-- I read all the James Bond books one summer, the choice didn't really please my mother. The other library was 20 miles away, it also smelled oiled wood-y and quiet. When I was at BYU the library was the only place I could study because my room mates were always too noisy!
ReplyDeleteI went to Washington D. C. and saw the Library of Congress. That was very impressive. But this one is amazing. I would love to travel the world and visit as many libraries as I could find. I would post pictures of all of them on our wiki.
ReplyDeleteI, too, have visited the Library of Congress multiple times. I grew up VA near DC but never visited LOC as a child - you couldn't go in unless you were or knew a member of Congress and were given special permission! Now the public can enter one of the buildings and it is spectacular! I have a book featuring just the quotes on the walls. I treasure my LOC Reading Room Library card!
DeleteI do take pictures of the libraries in the countries that I visit. Searching for them leads me on adventures and I love to see how different each one is.
I think our public library in Salt Lake City is great! But I was recently in Charlotte, N.C. I went to the public library and went to look at the children's section. It was a small corner. I was stunned, how could a city that has sculptures of books and a park with paths named after authors not have a children's section. WELL....They had a beautiful library just two blocks away that was just for kids. The top floor was for the YA and there were some amazing dress up areas, computers, full sized wooden cars to sit in and read, and a theater for youth productions. It was really fun!
ReplyDeleteThose were fabulous libraries. I particularly like the huge book spines. If I ever got to design a library I would certainly keep that in mind. I have never been in a real fancy library. I would love to see one up close and personal some day. Maybe when I retire, I can tour the "great libraries of the world". LOL
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