[Sca-librarians] A must-read for librarians

[Anna Troy]

Want to see how they libraries used to be built?
(mostly 17th-18th century) check this book out.

author:Laubier, Guillaume de  
title: The most beautiful libraries in the world /
photographs by Guillaume de Laubier ; text by Jacques
Bosser ; foreword by James H. Billington ; translated
from the French by Laurel Hirsch  
Harry N. Abrams, 2003  
   
ContainsNational Library of Austria, Vienna -- The
Benedictine Abbey Library of Admont, Austria -- The
Herzogin Anna Amalia Library, Weimar, Germany -- The
Benedictine Abbey Library of Metten, Germany -- The
Monastic Library at Wiblingen, Ulm, Germany -- The
Vatican Library, Rome -- Riccardian Library, Florence
-- The Institute Library, Paris -- The Mazarine
Library, Paris -- The Senate Library, Paris -- The
Cabinet des livres of the Duc d'Aumale, Chantilly,
France -- The Abbey Library of Saint Gall, Switzerland
-- The John Rylands Library, Manchester, England --
Bodleian Library, Oxford, England -- Wren Library,
Trinity College, Cambridge, England -- Trinity College
Library, Dublin -- The Library of the Mafra National
Palace, Portugal -- National Library, Prague -- The
Library of the Royal Monastery of El Escorial, San
Lorenzo del Escorial, Spain -- The Athenaeum, Boston
-- The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. -- The
New York Public Library -- National Library of Russia,
St. Petersburg -- Bibliography.  
 anmärkning:   Includes bibliographical references and
index. 
 ISBN:   0-8109-4634-3 
 ISBN:   0-500-51155-1 

Anna de Byxe, who's visited The Abbey Library of Saint Gall.

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