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Inside the newly renovated Picton Reading Room.

by Paul B

Liverpool — The picture here was taken in the ‘Picton Reading Room’ of Liverpool’s recently renovated Central Library and features a bust of Sir James Picton, who campaigned to have the library built and be the first electrically lit library in the UK. All way back in 1860. It’s a beautiful place to spend some time, the kind of room where the slightest movement becomes an audible ripple and then tidal wave o...

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Library in the afternoon. The quiet.

by Misha Berveno

Vancouver — I come here daily. I don’t have an office - I don’t need one. I go up to the 6th floor and find a seat by the window. The workday begins. Every day is different: sometimes I write code, sometimes I w...

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Reading on a rainy day: Days of Dust by Halim Barakat

by Samantha Harrington

Chapel hill — “‘You’re a Muslim!’ ‘No, I reject and am rejected. I am not a believer, but not an atheist either.’ ‘You’re a communist?’ ‘No, but not a capitalist.’ ‘You’re a rightist?’ ‘No.’ ‘You’re a leftist...

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My second home.

by Andrea Flores Hernández

Santa cruz de la sierra — This library is ubicated at L’alliance Française-Goethe Zentrum where I study french. After my journalism’s classes, I always, always go to the library. I go from 6pm until it is hour for my french cl...

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