Falling asleep in the library

Johnson has a crush on the new trainee librarian. Her start to the position has been more than a little bumpy given that she didn’t spend much time in the library during her school days. She struggles with the system of where to put the books back on the shelf and regularly gets it wrong.

Johnson watches as she places a book back on the shelf but even he can see that a biography doesn’t go in the fiction section. He walks over and takes it off the shelf and, summonses the courage to speak to her for the first time, approaches her with the book.

“Hi Miss… I noticed you placed this in the fiction section but it really should be in biographies.” he says with a smile. “Would you like me to show you where it goes?”

“Oh god…” she says blushing “that would be so helpful.  I can never work it out and I’ve been getting so much pressure from the head librarian.”  She whispers “she can be a total bitch…”

Johnson nods and gives her a reassuring smile “That’s not new news to me!”  and she giggles. “Let me show you the biography section” he says mimicking the head librarian.

At the same time the deputy head Mistress walked in and eyed both of them suspiciously.  

“What is going on here?” She snapped and frowned.

They both stare in silence for an awkward few seconds then the trainee librarian replies “Oh… I… ahhh… I caught this student moving books into the wrong shelf location Miss.” she looks at Johnson nervously “he was putting this biography away in the fiction section”

Johnson stood speechless.

“Yes Johnson can be a trouble maker. Come with me and I’ll show you how we deal with troublemakers like him.”

“Wait for me outside my office Johnson and ask my secretary to get out the punishment register. We will be along shortly”

Johnson turned slowly and walked towards her office listening to their conversation trail off.

“Seems like you’re fitting in nicely Amanda. You did the right thing. Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.”  They both giggled.

Városi Könyvtár, Letenye – Letenye City Library

Letenye is a small town in Hungary, just across the border from Croatia.  In 1993, the town built a library beside their famous 500-year-old plane tree.  The building was designed by Ervin Nagy and constructed solely out of natural materials: stone, glass, local oak beams, and acacia shingles.

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Interior view of the library at Maria Laach abbey, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

I made my daughter a library bag today, since she’s there’s once a week and bringing books home already!

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - Michel Gondry

The library of Marienstatt cistercian monastery, Germany.

The library is considerably older than the current library building, constructed 1907-1909. It contains more than 100,000 volumes, of which 21,500 are considered historically important. Since 2017 the library is considered a nationally important cultural heritage.

Photos from the monastery webpage here.

“Whenever I pass through a city, I never fail to visit whatever illustrious furnished houses are open to outsiders. […] It’s not only that I find myself more in touch with the past: the very arrangement of the furnishings act on me as a spell. The odor of the furniture, of the wax on the floos, of the ancient rooms is as pleasing to me - or even more pleasing - than the scent of meadows in spring […]. I have a weakness for watercolors of interiors, too, especially the kind that were painted in the first half of the 19th century, the patient work of minor artists or amateurs, which reproduce every piece of furniture, every object, every detail of the carpets and the curtains, the sense of the light and shadows in the room. […] Those great halls, those rooms, depicted just as they were when they were inhabited by the people whose taste they reflect, seem to me vibrant with expectation, still animated by human warmth, like a bed only recently abandoned by the man who slept in it. The flights of rooms and corridors, glimpsed through the doors, and the walls thick with paintings, the knick-knacks, the busts, the statuettes and porcelains, the flowers under the glass bells, breathe an intimacy that you never find in the rooms which serve as backgrounds for the official portraits.[…]

Old Europe, beautiful were the richly-decorated salons of your palaces, the calm rooms of your old bourgeois houses, the rustic kitchens of your simple dwellings in the mountains; beautiful also was your furniture with its time-stained patina, your objects lovingly worked by generations of cabinet-makers, potters and glodsmiths! We, who have known all these things in their splendor, who have - if only for a day - made ours the life of so many cities that are no more, how can we forget? As long as there are four walls that still keep the aroma of that vanished Europe, it is among those walls that we wish to die.”

Mario Praz, in his little masterpiece with the understated title "An illustrated history of interior decoration”.

Watercolour: The west libraries, Capesthorne Hall, Siddington, Cheshire, England (c. 1837). By James Johnson (birth and death dates unknown), in the collection of the Bromley-Davenport family. Source: +

Watercolour interior portaits of the library at Ditton Park, Berkshire, England. By Simon Jacques Rochard (?).

Part of the Buccleuch collection.

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In 1982, the Swedish Association of Beer Brewers donated their collection of historical books about beer and beer brewing to Uppsala University Library in Sweden. This is part of the collection, which is notable for its collection of English, German and Swedish works on beer mainly from the 18th century. In total it consists of about 14 shelf meters and around 140 volumes.

Picture source here, from an open source study partially about the colelction.