The main reading room at The National Library, Beijing, China, Asia

Main Reading Room, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., United States of America, North America

The main reading room at The National Library, Beijing, China, Asia

The Long Room in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Europe

Long Room interior, Old Library building, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Europe

The Long Room in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Europe

Long Room interior, Old Library building, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Europe

The Long Room in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Europe

Long Room interior, Old Library building, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Europe

Slovenia, Ljubljana (Lubiana), The Reading Room In The University Library

Reading Room, National Library, Vienna, Austria

Indonesia a kindergarten in banda aceh which lost many of children to tsunami, been rebuilt. schools director halimah anwar bustam (seen here in foreground) describes horrors suffered: area kids came from completely flattened by waves. On that fateful sunday children were in their homes, or many were already on beach having. So many died that morning. It devastating. Only we getting things back together, very grateful to helping with reconstruction of damaged building. staff give up a portion of their (already) salaries to sponsor poor children from outlying villages to come to school. structure includes offices staff, a library, prayer room wheelchair accessible classroom.__ Photograph taken in banda aceh, -december 2006, 2 years after tsunami of december 26th 2004 devasted much of coastal region. Taken to illustrate reconstruction work projects of (catholic relief services) of sponsored photo tour

The library and reading room in the British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

The historic Long Room of the Old Library, in Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

The Long Room, Trinity College Library, Dublin, Ireland

Visitors and Reproductions of pages from the Book of Kells, inThe Old Library, in Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Library

Reading room of Vilnius university, Lithuania, Vilnius

Europe, Great Britain, England, London, The British Museum, The Reading Room in the British Museum Library

Europe, Germany, Saxony, Leipzig, German National Library (former Deutsche Buecherei), interior view, reading room

Europe, Germany, Saxony, Leipzig, German National Library (former Deutsche Buecherei), interior view, reading room

Europe, Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Dortmund, Stadt- und Landesbibliothek Dortmund, Interior view

Europe, Great Britain, England, London, The British Museum, The Reading Room in the British Museum Library

Library with fireplace, museum at the Corbusier house from 1927, Weissenhof Museum, Stuttgart, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Library in the summer house of surrealist painter Salvador Dali and his wife Gala in Port Lligat, Girona Province, Spain

Reading room of the Bibliotheca Albertina, university library of the Unversitaet Leipzig university, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, Europe

Helikon Library, reading room, Festetics Palace in Kesztehely, Hungary, Europe

Library of Deutscher Bundestag, German parliament, Marie-Elisabeth-Lueders-Haus, building, view of the reading room, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Very old books, library, hall of theology, Strahov Monastery, Hrad&any, Castle District, Prague, Czech Republic, Europe

Reading room, Saechsische Landesbibliothek, university library, Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Room with a marble portal, view towards the library, Villa Huegel, former home of the Krupp family, Essen-Baldeney, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Library of Deutscher Bundestag, German parliament, Marie-Elisabeth-Lueders-Haus, building, view of the reading room, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Library of the Saint, Padua, Veneto, Italy

Small Library Room of Stift Melk Benedictine Monastery, Lower Austria, Austria

Small Library Room of Stift Melk Benedictine Monastery, Lower Austria, Austria

Small Library Room of Stift Melk Benedictine Monastery, Lower Austria, Austria

Small Library Room of Stift Melk Benedictine Monastery, Lower Austria, Austria