Showing posts with label Library. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Library. Show all posts

Monday, May 9, 2011

Prague XXIX: Strahov Library


The Strahov Monastery has an impressive library with books I would have loved to get my hands on. Alas, they didn't let you touch them.















This set of books actually had pieces of plants on the binders! Of course, they were so old you could no longer tell what they were.





Thursday, November 12, 2009

100 Strangers Series: 12


This is Pam Scott, the librarian at the Library in English in Geneva. For a small fee The Library offers a large selection of books and you can borrow up to 6 at a time. They have a book sale twice a year which also funds their operation. We went to the sale and picked up a whole box of good used books for only 40 francs (about 40$)!

Pam showed us around the library and also told us about a Pantomime of Little Red Riding Hood put on by the Geneva Amateur Operatic Society.