Thursday, November 17, 2011

Best places in schools - Libraries!

I was making my college list last week, and I thought I might as well look at colleges' libraries. So many prestigious colleges had beautiful libraries, and I ended up looking up beautiful college libraries. I wanted to introduce some of them.









Georgetown University's Riggs library blew my mind. Look at those gold bars and windows! This library was built in 1889 majorly to make space for 105,000 volumes of university archives and books.















This is University of Chicago's Harper library. It's interesting because not only its ceiling is gorgeous but also it is one of the largest university libraries.










This is Pratt Institute's library, the one I have actually been to. I liked it because its warm colors and round arches created comfortable atmosphere. Though it was not a gigantic library, I could find many intriguing and artsy archives, like culture magazines, lying everywhere in the library (probably because it's an art school library).


University of Pennsylvania's Fine Arts libary has a studious atmosphere -- if I were in that library I'd probably want to study.









This is Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. I love the modern interior and the fact that each block of the column in the middle of the picture is a bookshelf!














Uris library, Cornell's oldest library, is another library with great interior design built in the 19th century. This library is special because of another large, three-story room library called Andrew Dickson White library that is built within it.




I don't know what college and what library I'll end up going but one thing I'm sure that no libraries will give out gigantic chocolate chip cookies or have the sweetest library dog that would put his head on my lap and wait until I pet him.

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