Your Public Library

[Anonymous No.2452400]

Lets see your libraries guys.

pic related (it's the one I visit most)

[Anonymous No.2452415]

>>2452400

[Anonymous No.2452423]

This is the one I grew up with. If you go here on a Saturday every kid in the city who attends a public magnet high school will be farting around here working on some shitty group oral report. I don't want to post my current local because it's not glamorous and I go to such a small school that I'm faintly scared of giving myself away.

[Anonymous No.2452424]

>>2452415
I went to Beloit College but <3333

[Anonymous No.2452426]

Mo'fucka.

Seriously though, don't track me down to kill me.

[Anonymous No.2452429]

>>2452423

That building is gorgeous.

[Anonymous No.2452431]

This it the only recent picture of the place I could get. Small, ugly, dirty on the inside, and has a terrible collection. They'd rather deal in lending video games than books.

[Anonymous No.2452439]

so pretty...

[Anonymous No.2452445]

>>2452439

Damn. Doesn't seem like they'd need any internal lighting during the day. Seems nice.

[Anonymous No.2452448]

>>2452445
don't be fooled. all the big windows face north. But the lighting, natural or not, is usually great.

[Anonymous No.2452461]

>>2452439
are you gonna be mad if i hear the portlandia theme song in my head while looking at this

[Anonymous No.2452459]

Not the best picture but there she is.

[Anonymous No.2452462]

>>2452426
Did you go to Mount Aspiring College?

[Anonymous No.2452463]

>>2452459
Damn, I want to see the brick side of the building. Looks pretty cool.

[Anonymous No.2452466]

>>2452461
not really. all my friends are hipsters and I like it here anyway. Portland is a wonderful city. You ever been? If you go be sure to visit Powel's.

[Anonymous No.2452487]

[Anonymous No.2452503]

10 minute walk from my house

[Anonymous No.2452510]

I don't want to post the suburban library that I rarely use, and it seems like you don't want university libraries ITT so here's the Vancouver Public Library.

[Anonymous No.2452516]

>>2452462

Shit yes. Who the hell are you?

[Anonymous No.2452531]

>>2452510

OP here, I wasn't intentionally excluding university libraries--mine just happens to be terrible so I never use it.

[Anonymous No.2452534]

>>2452510
It's a great library. I rarely use it because I'd rather just order the books on VPL online and get them delivered to Kitsilano or Kerrisdale's branch. Koerner is the best library to wander around in, especially at night.

[Anonymous No.2452536]

>>2452531

And also, that library looks fucking amazing.

[Anonymous No.2452542]

>>2452516

Oh wait. Google search...

[Anonymous No.2452544]

[Anonymous No.2452546]

>>2452516
Your friend Ella Mills. Nah, I'm just some bored person trying to track you down cause you said not to.

I probably could, but I have other things to do.

[Anonymous No.2452555]

>>2452544
Milwaukee has so many cool buildings! I remember walking past this place while hoofing it a mile in the wrong direction from the Amtrak station in search of my hotel last summer

[Anonymous No.2452562]

>>2452555
hopefully you got to get a gander at this one

[Anonymous No.2452563]

Portland Central.

[Anonymous No.2452564]

>>2452562
Oh yeah.
MKE architecture thread?

[Anonymous No.2452566]

>>2452562
>>2452562
>>2452562
Hurrr durrr this is teh modern world, we don't need functional architecture!

[Anonymous No.2452567]

It's not as bad as it looks.

[Anonymous No.2452569]

>>2452562
Hell yes I did.

-Your pal, Michael Bay

[Anonymous No.2452570]

>>2452566
calm down aspie, it's an art museum and a beautiful one

[Anonymous No.2452573]

>>2452566
Settle down, Jeanneret.

[Anonymous No.2452578]

[Anonymous No.2452607]

[Anonymous No.2452610]

>>2452607
replaces
<------ pic related, the former downtown branch

[Anonymous No.2452621]

this shot is a few decades old, but the current view is blocked by trees.

It's actually pretty cool, but during the winter it's infested with homeless people

[Anonymous No.2452635]

>>2452621
>infested with homeless people
>i'm probably going to be homeless soon and spend a lot of time at the library
>mfw

[Anonymous No.2452645]

Good ol' Salem Public. Been going here since I was a young bibliophile. It really doesn't look much different than it did in 1891...

[Anonymous No.2452648]

>>2452621
> infested
> implying homeless people have no right loitering in a public building open to anybody.

[Francis No.2452655]

I hereby decree that all homeless people henceforth be referred to as 'bindlestiffs'

[Anonymous No.2452658]

PV Peninsula Central Library

[Anonymous No.2452667]

[Anonymous No.2452697]

S'alright, I guess.

[Anonymous No.2452718]

This is the local library, or at least the library for my zip code. Shitsucks, most of the people in the library area are just there filling out forms and wrapping packages.

[Anonymous No.2452724]

got them subterranean levels too, mayne

[Anonymous No.2452730]

>>2452562
JESUS CHRIST why is Milwaukee the center of high architecture. I fucking wish Atlanta or anywhere in GA was so beautiful.

[Anonymous No.2452737]

I like it.

[Anonymous No.2452738]

>>2452724
yeah i went there. always found it weird, especially the library staff whose offices were on the 3rd, 4th, 5th floors down. great library for seeking isolation for studying.

[Anonymous No.2452740]

>>2452737
>dat file-name

[Anonymous No.2452745]

>>2452423

What, you're afraid of being called out for anonymously posting a picture of a library on 4chan?

I picture you clutching your pearls every time you hit the submit button.

[Anonymous No.2452752]

first


(in america)

[polite sage No.2452753]

>>2452738
*weird in a good way, like you expect to emerge one day and columbia's been nuked, and it's just you, the cockroaches, and the damaged-book-mending specialists who work on the lower floors

[Anonymous No.2452758]

>>2452738
>>2452753

Agreed. I was going to post the obligatory fallout shelter joke but I see you beat me to the punch.

[Anonymous No.2452759]

>>2452752

more

[Anonymous No.2452764]

>>2452752

aaaand 1 more.


up on all of yalls asses.

[Anonymous No.2452797]

A MONUMENT

TO BORING!

[Anonymous No.2452805]

Library is the one on the left.

[Anonymous No.2452808]

>>2452797

This is exactly what a library should look like.

[Anonymous No.2452829]

[Anonymous No.2452845]

Far superior to my public library.

[Anonymous No.2452852]

[Anonymous No.2452934]

[Anonymous No.2452939]

University of Edinburgh library.

[Anonymous No.2452949]

UGA has three libraries, there's the law library and the science library, but this is the main one.

[Anonymous No.2452956]

encinitas library. the book selection is shit, but you can always have other books delivered from other libraries and the view is great. the big balcony with ocean view has tables and chairs to relax out max on

[Anonymous No.2452958]

>>2452956
oh yeah and here's the picture

[Anonymous No.2452967]

The city library of Lahti. It acts as a sort of a central hub for the other smaller libraries around the city and has a quite nice selection.

[Anonymous No.2452968]

Not the best

(Louth, Lincolnshire)

[Anonymous No.2452971]

National Library of Wales

[Anonymous No.2452972]

Gloucester Library

[The sheperdwoman No.2453076]

Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève, Paris

[Anonymous No.2453078]

Pretty cool if you ask me.

[Anonymous No.2453082]

Nice enough.

[Anonymous No.2453084]

It's a really nice place. Has great areas to do work. But they are severely lacking in decent books.

[Anonymous No.2453086]

Kungliga Biblioteket, Sweden

[Anonymous No.2453092]

>>2453082
moving to norwich next year, looks good

[Anonymous No.2453112]

[Anonymous No.2453113]

usually has tramps chilling out on the steps

[Anonymous No.2453116]

Bibliothèque de l'Hotel de Ville, Paris

It's not the whole building, I'd say 1/3 of it maybe. It's still pretty huge.

>>2453113
this is cute as fuck

[Anonymous No.2453117]

>>2453116
forgot photo

[Anonymous No.2453119]

>>2453117
inside the main room

[The sheperdwoman No.2453127]

Bibliothèque Nationale de France - François Mitterand , Paris

[Anonymous No.2453134]

>>2453127
The suicide question is not a question to me anymore.

[Anonymous No.2453135]

German master race

[Anonymous No.2453137]

>>2453113
Didsbury Village, Manchester, UK btw
(opened in 1915)

[The sheperdwoman No.2453139]

>>2453127

BNF Interior - Classic 7O's architecture

[Anonymous No.2453140]

>mfw your libraries can't into cyberpunk

[Anonymous No.2453141]

>>2453135

[Anonymous No.2453143]

>>2453140
>mf also

[Anonymous No.2453144]

>>2453143
forgot to add brofist to germanbros

[The sheperdwoman No.2453147]

>>2453139
The BNF is located on the riverbanks of the Seine in the 13th District of Paris.

[Anonymous No.2453150]

>>2453143

[Anonymous No.2453157]

Stockholm's City Library.

One awesome library.

[Anonymous No.2453167]

>>2453147
That's beautiful. Thread confirmed for Europe being the best continent of all time.

[Anonymous No.2453172]

This library at one time only had language tapes and crime/thriller novels. I dread to think what it has become now.

[Anonymous No.2453173]

A rather small, local library.

[The sheperdwoman No.2453175]

>>2453147
Project Blinkenlights - Arcade in BNF

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=76036627840418843

Pic related, there's a garden inside the library.

[Anonymous No.2453184]

>>2453173
And there's the image

[Anonymous No.2453219]

[Anonymous No.2453231]

>>2453219

[Anonymous No.2453257]

Could be bigger but gets the job done.

[Anonymous No.2453258]

Most of the libraries in this thread are perfect examples of western bourgeois decadence.

[Anonymous No.2453261]

>>2453258
Most of the libraries in this thread are perfect examples of western awesomeness.

[Anonymous No.2453262]

>>2453184
That photo looks like piss

[Anonymous No.2453268]

i'm so happy every day

[Anonymous No.2453281]

>>2453258
AMAZING FEATS OF ARCHITECTURE ARE BAD BECAUSE THEY COST A LOT OF MONEY TO BUILD AND MONEY IS EVIL

[Anonymous No.2453283]

Here's the main library in Des Moines, IA. Actually a really amazing building. Copper infused glass that you can't really see in from the outside by you can see out from the inside.

[Anonymous No.2453296]

[Anonymous No.2453323]

>>2453262
The library looks like shit, you mean?

[Anonymous No.2453406]

[Anonymous No.2453429]

This is where I get my kicks.

[Anonymous No.2453435]

>not having your library in a building in the Vienna Secession style

scandalous!

[Anonymous No.2453457]

looks like mashed paper disneyland.

[Anonymous No.2453456]

>>2453076
all dem empty shelves

[Anonymous No.2453469]

>>2453076
Opulent but empty.

Describes Paris, really.

[Anonymous No.2453480]

the Toronto Reference Library
I'd show pics from the outside, but Yonge street is pretty much the ugliest place in Canada.

[Anonymous No.2453491]

>Senate House
Not a public library but it's local and I have access to it. So yeah....

[Anonymous No.2453508]

SFPL main was posted in OP so I'll post the branch I use most often (also use Ortega and Sunset a lot). I went there so much when I was a kid...

>>2453257
where's this at?

[Anonymous No.2453592]

[Anonymous No.2453793]

Located in Fresh Meadows, a neighborhood in Queens. Stormfags would be pissed off at all the Jews and Asians.

[Anonymous No.2453805]

the library of congress belongs to e'rryone.
america fuck yeah

[Anonymous No.2453808]

>>2453793
no black people at that library?

[Anonymous No.2453810]

>>2452510
My home away from home. Only a few blocks away too.

Can spend hours going through all the ancient stuff on the 4th and 5th floors.

[Anonymous No.2453817]

>>2453808
IIRC there was one middle-aged black woman working at the counter. There are dark-skinned people from the Middle East though. Back when I lived in Orlando, you couldn't access the computers at the public library, because loads of black girls were using it for MySpace.

[Standard Toaster !RQTOASTvfI No.2453825]

Here's the front side.

[Standard Toaster !RQTOASTvfI No.2453827]

>>2453825
Annnnd the back side.

[Anonymous No.2453832]

This is my second home.

[Anonymous No.2453834]

Oh, and a little of topic here, but I've heard there have been debates on this board as to what's the better place to meet girls: the public library, or the local bookstore.

What side are you on? HSfag here.

[Anonymous No.2453837]

>>2453832
>Cops guarding a library.
What the hell America?

[Standard Toaster !RQTOASTvfI No.2453844]

>>2453837
I think they're just leaving.

[Anonymous No.2453847]

>>2453837
I think it's something in their constitution about how you're a faggot if you don't constantly wave a gun around.

[Anonymous No.2453849]

>>2453837
That library has it's own team of security guards. They're mostly there to keep the rowdy teenagers and the occasional disgruntled homeless person.

[Anonymous No.2453895]

Last semester I had a weird schedule, I had class from 9:00-9:50, 11:00-11:50, 2:00-3:15, and 3:30-4:45. So a class, an hour break, a class, a two hour break, and then two classes.

One day after my first class I fell asleep on this bench. Woke up four minutes before I had to catch the bus at 5PM wondering what year it was. I still can't believe no one tried to wake me up/steal my stuff.

[Anonymous No.2453955]

>>2453895
in the US we respect people's space too much to touch them. also lol criminal battery is unwanted touching.

so there's always the risk of you callin the cops for us touching you.

[Anonymous No.2453959]

this is the UGA law library. It's kinda cool because it has a bridge over a service road to get the another part of the library. I like indoor building bridges though.

[Anonymous No.2453962]

It's at least 100 years old.

[Anonymous No.2453969]

>>2453955
lol, true. I'm glad I didn't get molested or anything (in the past 3 months there's been a robbery, kidnapping, and assault on campus) but I was surprised that out of the hundreds of people that walk by no one said "Hey, you okay?" Lucky I wasn't sick lol!

I was sleeping ugly, too. They probably thought I was a crazy homeless person.

[Anonymous No.2453997]

>>2453268

Cool, I go there too.

[Anonymous No.2454006]

>>2453962
Hahaha. WOW, 100 YEARS! That's like, a long time!

Step up your game, faggot Americans.

Pic related. Founded in 1602.

[Anonymous No.2454013]

>>2454006
Wow, that is a cool door.

[Anonymous No.2454037]

>>2452737
Where's that? Kansas?

[Anonymous No.2454038]

>>2454006
>implying being old means anything.
congrats, you were there 500 years ago, if that's the thing you're famous for that means you haven't done anything in the past 500 years worth mentioning.

keep up the mediocrity.

[Anonymous No.2454046]

>>2454037
that looks like a lot of the 90s-00s era architecture in the chicagoland suburbs.

It could be in any middle-income middle-america town though.

[Anonymous No.2454047]

BOOYA

[Anonymous No.2454061]

It's ok. A lot better than it was 10 years ago when it was almost a dungeon. Now you can actually see what book you're picking up (if you can actually find it). They split up the different fiction sections and whatnot. Half of it is upstairs or some retarded shit. I just request my books and pick em up from the pick up section now.

I miss the old one from my childhood.

[Anonymous No.2454062]

none of you have a library in an indoor complex or mall? what? Modernism didn't fuck your town too? Now I'm jealous...

[Anonymous No.2454073]

>>2454062
oh wow, that reminded me of a tedtalk. About how atrocious american urban planning is and how, if we're going to survive the bubble burst that is diesel fuel, we'll have to retrofit new town centers into our current ones.

Suburban america is a wasteland of concrete. nobody wants to just relax in the town square, unlike europe.

[Anonymous No.2454080]

[Anonymous No.2454086]

>>2454073
"[Charles] Olson was too intelligent to give a name to this daimon; he was aware of the names Ruskin and Pound had given it, but a cooperation between greed and governments was far too mild a monster for Olson's vision. He was of DeGaulle's opinion that we are the first civilization to have bred our own barbarians: De Gaulle was alluding to the masked rioters stomping down the Boulevard St.-Germain in May of '68; Olson would have meant the automobiles with their hind ends up like the butts of hemorrhoidal jack-rabbits that squawl their tires and are driven by a hunnish horde of young who have been taught nothing, can do nothing, and exhibit a lemming restlessness. Their elders are scarcely more settled or more purposeful to themselves or their neighbors. A shift in attention allows the jungle in. The polis is gone; no one can imagine that there are any American cities left. The towns have died at their centers and thrown up a circular scab around themselves, a commercial carnival. We know all too well what Olson is talking about, if not what he is trying to teach us."

yeah, city design in america mostly sucks dick

[Anonymous No.2454090]

>>2454006

>assuming I'm american

Wat. I'm romanian.

[Anonymous No.2454099]

>>2454073
I think about this all of the time. It's nearly impossible to survive without a vehicle. I'm not anti-car, anti-oil or particularly progressive by any standards, but the complete lack of planning that goes into communities is absurd. A well planned community is good for people and good for business. It would improve everyone's quality of life.

[Anonymous No.2454100]

>>2454090
I assumed you were American because you thought 100 years was wowing.

[Anonymous No.2454108]

>>2454100
Everything is relative you smarmy cunt, go crawl back into your hole.

[Anonymous No.2454109]

>>2454099
I'm pretty anti-car. I think it's absurd, the amount of energy and money that is expended just to move 1 person around town. It is not efficient.

When gas prices spike (fairly soon, too--most people estimate a steep increase in gas prices to hit this summer) suddenly just getting from point A to point B will be an atrocious waste of resources.

Car culture is unintelligent, and America won't have time and money to make streetcars and trains. They dropped the ball, big time.

[Anonymous No.2454113]

>>2454006
But where did library come from?

[Anonymous No.2454122]

>>2454109
I agree with you on nearly all accounts, but I'm still not anti-car. Without the combustion engine the world would never have achieved what we have so quickly. Since oil is a finite resource the problem will fix itself eventually. It'll just be hell on a lot of us since we weren't so eager to drop money into more innovative forms of transportation.

I'll be sad to see the age of the combustion engine end, though. Nothing like the roar of 8 cylinders.

[Anonymous No.2454133]

>>2454109
And I think it is absurd the time sucked up by waiting around for public transportation to get you to your destination.

Getting from Point A to Point B using public transportation is an enormous waste of resources. We can always find a new source of energy. There is no such thing as a new source of time.

[Anonymous No.2454136]

>>2454109
America just went "we have cars, who gives a fuck anymore" and decided to do fuck all with public transportation.

>>2454133
you act as if you can't just read while you wait for the bus and then read while you take the bus to your destination. The problem is there is no infrastructure in 90% of america.

[ParanoidHyperMusicPolice !ynEUGf3h9I No.2454138]

>over 750,000 items

We've also got the declaration of the war of 1812.

jelly?

[Anonymous No.2454139]

>>2454138
not particularly.

[ParanoidHyperMusicPolice !ynEUGf3h9I No.2454146]

>>2454139

okay then.

[Anonymous No.2454156]

>>2454133
You've obviously never been outside America if you think waiting for the bus or train is a time vampire.

In most large cities in Europe, a streetcar comes by every 10 or so minutes, and because it has its own lane, it zooms on to the destination, being far faster than stop-and-go car traffic.

[Anonymous No.2454176]

>>2454136 you act as if you can't just read while you wait for the bus and then read while you take the bus to your destination. The problem is there is no infrastructure in 90% of america.

You act as if reading were preferable to simply going directly to your destination. Which is the goal of a transportation system.

America used to have the world's second best public transportation infrastructure. Then the car became affordable. Then everyone realized public transportation is shit. They have to use it in the biggest cities because everyone is stacked on top of each other like sardines but just about everywhere else it is inconveinent.

If public transport was so efficient and great all the Latin American countries America sold their street trolleys to would be commercial powerhouses.

[Anonymous No.2454178]

Spend my days in here.

[Anonymous No.2454184]

>>2454176
>If public transport was so efficient and great all the Latin American countries America sold their street trolleys to would be commercial powerhouses.

In all seriousness, you are an idiot. Your brain is broken.

[Anonymous No.2454217]

Only semi-decent picture I could find of our library. The one we had before was a totally shit.


Redding, CA

[Anonymous No.2454231]

>>2454184
Commerce is directly related to transportation. America has long been the economic powerhouse of the New World precisely because they have been at the forefront of intra-continental transportation. Rome developed an empire based on the principle. Britain developed an empire on its inter-continental extension. None of them were energy-efficient on a per capita basis — English ships, famously man-power heavy, were so starved for crews they started impressing foreign sailors just to run them, see War of 1812 — but what they all saved was time over the predecessors.

>>2454156
No, I have never been outside America. America is a big fucking place. Do you understand that? How's public transportation in Europe far away from the big cities?

[Anonymous No.2454234]

>>2454231
>How's public transportation in Europe far away from the big cities?
Pretty good.

[Anonymous No.2454236]

>>2454176
>If public transport was so efficient and great all the Latin American countries America sold their street trolleys to would be commercial powerhouses.
Please explain. I mean, you're implying that efficient transportation single-handedly creates a robust business. And, because public transportation isn't efficient, that is the sole reason why LA countries' economies did not flourish.

[Anonymous No.2454240]

>>2454231
You cite Britian and Rome as leading empires, but what about Genghis Khan? His empire stretched to over one third the known world and he had no infrastructure.

[Anonymous No.2454242]

>>2454231
"It liberates the vandal to travel--you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction."
--Mark Twain

[Anonymous No.2454243]

>>2454240
>he had no infrastructure
Apart from trade.

[Anonymous No.2454245]

>>2454243
apart from not really. The reason any one group was able to conquer a large swath of the world was because they developed new technologies and used it to beat the shit out of other civilizations. Infrastructure had nothing to do with it.

[Anonymous No.2454246]

>>2454240

The Mongols' empire, such as it was, was based entirely on control of trade on the Silk Road. And I guess some pillaging.

[Anonymous No.2454250]

>>2454245
Trade, Taxation, Army, all these things were there, all of them infrastructure.

[Anonymous No.2454255]

>>2454245
An empire is not built from conquering. It is built by controlling. The Mongols never built an empire. Alexander never built an empire. They conquered and then they largely evaporated.

[Anonymous No.2454256]

>>2454250
You say that "army" is part of transportation.

you're straying too far from your point that the lack of public transportation is a sole indicator of a countries' commercial sucess.

[Anonymous No.2454262]

>>2454255

What? The Mongols never built an empire? And Alexander? I seem to recall his empire was divided up into three pretty good empires after he died. No real "evaporating" involved.

[Anonymous No.2454267]

>>2454255

If the mongol empire evaporated, who did Marco Polo visit?

[Anonymous No.2454275]

>>2454267
who was phone?

[Anonymous No.2454277]

>>2454256
That wasn't his point. That was my point. Commerce flows fastest when the system is as private as possible. I agree with you that the Army is not a carrier of commerce.

[Anonymous No.2454290]

>>2454256
>You say that "army" is part of transportation.
Infrastructure. You can't have transportation without some form of "policing".

[Anonymous No.2454293]

>>2453895
People catch naps on benches like that all the time. I think it would have been a bit rude to wake you myself, after all nobody else really has any idea if you have to be somewhere else or not.

[Anonymous No.2454294]

>>2454267 If the mongol empire evaporated, who did Marco Polo visit?

The founder of the short-lived Yuan Dynasty of China.

[Anonymous No.2454296]

Why go to a library when you own a Kindle?

[Anonymous No.2454302]

>>2454296
Enjoy not having a reference section.

[Anonymous No.2454321]

>>2453480
I'm a student at York and it's weird how similar our University is to the Reference Library in terms of "design"

[Anonymous No.2454324]

>>2454294

who was a mongol. and in charge of an empire.

[Anonymous No.2454343]

>>2454321
It's not that weird, actually. Raymond Moriyama, who designed the TRL, was also involved in the team that designed the York U Keele campus.
I really like the Scott Library. It's too bad that York is such a lame school.

[Anonymous No.2454365]

My university's humanities library is glorious. 5 giant floors with some two million books. There's not a book I've wanted to read that I couldn't find in that library, no matter how obscure. It's heaven.

[Anonymous No.2454398]

>>2453825
What is that piece of glorious brutalism in the tropics? Weird but nice combination.