LIbraries that are the best ever!

Some lovely libraries, courtesy of flickr since I found a really really awesome one and investigated further:







"And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again -- for like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy."
-Joineriana

"To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization."
-Timothy Healy