The Bat Libraries of Portugal
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2022
Bibliophiles aren’t the only ones that love hanging out in the library. Given the chance bats too would love to roost there and eat the bugs...
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Before The Internet, What People Asked New York Public Library's Librarians?
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 19, 2018
Before there was the Internet and Google, the only way to find answers to a pressing question was to visit the local library and ask the all...
Saint Catherine's Monastery And The World’s Oldest Library
Kaushik Patowary
May 12, 2018
Deep in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, in a region of wilderness made up of granite rock and rugged mountains, lies the town of Saint Catheri...
The Library That Stands On Two Countries
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 22, 2018
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House has two different addresses. If you are American, you’ll say the library is located at “93 Caswell ...
The Pigment Library at Harvard
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 23, 2016
A piece of rare lapis lazuli stone from quarries in Afghanistan, secretions from on ocean-dwelling snail Bolinus brandaris , dried bodies of...
The Forgotten Desert Libraries of Chinguetti
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 19, 2016
The ancient desert town of Chinguetti, in Mauritania, on the western edge of the Sahara, has changed little since it was founded more than t...
The Book Mountain in Spijkenisse, The Netherlands
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 2, 2015
Close to the Port of Rotterdam, in Spijkenisse, is a public library that manifests itself as a mountain of books on the town’s market square...
The Last Surviving Chained Libraries
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 2, 2015
Before the printing press made books cheap and easily available, books in the Middle Ages were incredibly scarce and precious. Without a met...
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2014
Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is the largest building in the world dedicated to the containment and preservati...
Britain’s Telephone Box Libraries
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 3, 2012
The iconic red telephone boxes found all over the UK are beginning to disappear, but thanks to the effort of local communities and British T...
Kansas City Library’s Giant Bookshelf
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 15, 2010
One of the most unusual architecture at Kansas City, has to be the facade of the parking garage for the Central Branch of the public library...
