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Bibliothèque de l'Université Laval, Québec.

The empty spaces just before the holidays allowed me to take some interior pictures of this library. This is Pavillon Jean-Charles Bonenfant, by St-Gelais, Tremblay, Tremblay, Labbé architectes (1967-68), the main library of Université Laval.

📷: Canon 30D + Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6

Interior of a Brutalist library with waffle ceilings. It is a large reading room with contemporary tables with dividers separated by wooden planters. There are shelves in the back.

Inside Switzerland's extraordinary medieval library

By Mike MacEacheran

The Abbey Library of St Gallen is a Baroque hall of globes, manuscripts and curiosities that has survived, improbably, for 1,300 years.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20260202-inside-switzerlands-extraordinary-medieval-library

Medieval library at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=medieval+library

PLATE XXV DUKE HUMFREY’S LIBRARY, OXFORD The image captures the historic reading room with its magnificent barrel-vaulted wooden ceiling with decorative coffers, tall windows providing natural light at the far end, and rows of bookshelves lining both sides. Reading desks are positioned along the central aisle. Duke Humfrey's Library, the oldest reading room of the Bodleian, dates to the 15th century and was named after Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447), younger brother of Henry V, who donated his collection of manuscripts to Oxford University. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1615/pg1615-images.html

Post by Jennifer Goodland At today's staff meeting we discussed the need for warning labels for our books. Like “not microwave safe” “not dishwasher safe” “for suppository use only” The discussion was prompted by another library where a patron got their book wet, tried to dry it out in the microwave, and the metallic RFID tag destroyed both the microwave and the book.

Ancient History Unfolded

Posted by: Neely Tucker

"The majority of Library’s physical collections are, as you might think, on paper. But before paper was invented in China and introduced globally, papyrus dominated as the writing surface of the Mediterranean world."

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/12/ancient-history-unfolded/

A fragment of the Egerton Gospel. Papyrus collection of the University of Cologne

A fragment of the Egerton Gospel. Papyrus collection of the University of Cologne

Post by Tara Wine-Queen It's not that I *can't* read all of the books I already have, it's that once a reader finishes all the books in their possession, they transcend into their final form and I'm just not ready to become a librarian yet.

I picked up my library holds, including this brand new copy of David Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs".
Such a nice object, and great writing as well ;)
Thanks Christchurch

View of the book showing a slight gap in the pages at the point I paused reading (end of preface)

Is Closing ’s Largest Library

Holdings from the at the , which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet race, will be warehoused or thrown out.

The shutdown of the library…is part of a larger reorganization under the Trump admin that includes the closure of 13 buildings & >100 & laboratories on the 1,270-acre campus by March 2026.


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/climate/nasa-goddard-library-closing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share