Read in a sea of foliage {Video}

Private Library from David Vegezzi on Vimeo.

Architect Andrew Berman's dream project. He creates a building which seems to float in a sea of foliage -- a perfect private library.

Check out the giant bookshelf in Kansas!

Parking Garage Shaped Like Bookshelf - Kansas... by GeoBeats

Kansas City Public Library drives home the point of the benefits of reading ... not only with its library ... but with this humungous parking garage shaped like a bookshelf! You can't miss it!

Bicycle library in London

Stumbled across The Bicycle Library, a UK-based library, in a Inhabitat post. I thought it was a library on bicycles (err, not many books on those, methinks). Wrong. It's a mobile library (actually a double decker bus!) advocating bicycles in the city.

For Londoners, I'm jealous :) Check out more on their website!

Floating book fair in the Philippines!

A veritable floating library! The M/V Logos Hope, a non-profit organization based in Germany that operates ships that sail around the world to bring knowledge, help and hope, is currently docked at Pier 15 in Manila’s South Harbor. The ship has over 500,000 books and over 5,000 different titles - go check it out if you're in that part of the world!

The world is a better place because of projects like these. 

Thanks again, Nola, for the heads up!

{Via PhilStar.com.}

Old tank transformed into a roving library

In Buenos Aires, artist Raul Lemesoff converts an old Falcon tank into a mobile library! A weapon of destruction into a weapon of instruction!

He says:

The Weapon of Mass Instruction is meant to get people to recognize various aspects of life: sharing, education, and also to have a good time. It’s a contribution to peace through literature.

{Via. Thank you, Nola, for the heads up!}

Little Free Library - adopt one for your neighbourhood!

I am loving the concept of Little Free Library, which is promoting literacy and a community spirit, one little library at a time! Their mission is to top Andrew Carnegie - to build more than 2,510 libraries around the world!

Check out the story of how two friends started up this project, and how the Little Free Library is creating quite a buzz, from Wisconsin to Sacramento to Toronto!

{Sidenote: I am hoping this spreads to the Philippines. But on second thought, those books would disappear in a heartbeat.}

Phone booth = library

"Oh honey, I'm just gonna go make a quick call at the corner."

"While you're at it, can you borrow me a book?"

Don't knock it. That traditional red phone booth / box  - recycled into one of the country's smallest lending libraries - holds 100 books! And look at those queues! 

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A library made from bookshelves!

Don't you just love libraries? And if they are interesting libraries, all the better. I love floor to ceiling shelves, but seriously ... wow! Take a look at these shots and don't tell me that your aren't a little envious of those lucky guys in Tokyo, Japan where this library is found. It's a "double-storey library of 6,500㎡ in floor area. It is a library made from bookshelves."

This is the Musashino Art University Museum Library. I don't think I'd get much studying done.

More amazing shots after the jump!

Library of the future

Would be nice if people still appreciate books-in-the-flesh (over e-books) in the future!
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