chicagopubliclibrary:

Community Book Exchange In Chicago

chicagopubliclibrary:

Library Lounge #4

Join the Chicago Public Library at The Whistler on August 2nd for the next Library Lounge happy hour.

RSVP to notwhatyouthink@allterrain.net and receive a free t-shirt when you arrive.

But wait … there’s more! Sign up for and walk away with a library card on-the-spot. Learn about everything the Chicago Public Library has to offer you. And have a couple drinks on us while you have a great time hanging out. What more could you ask for?

See you there!

(Must be 21 & up to attend. Program made possible by a generous grant from the Chicago Public Library Foundation.)

We’re there. (Dumb & Dumber reference and a library plug? Yes, I am popular at parties.)

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neat!

An $81 million library opened Monday at the University of Chicago.

And there’s not a book in sight.

Designed by architect Helmut Jahn, the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library provides 180 seats for students and faculty to study under a glass dome constructed from 691 panels, none of them exactly the same shape. The library also expands digitization and conservation operations for the university’s collections, which include a piece of a Gutenberg Bible and books printed on papyrus, ancient Egypt’s version of paper.

Fifty feet below ground on the Hyde Park campus, a system of five automated cranes retrieves and stores volumes that are sorted according to book size, not content. The new library has room for 3.5 million volumes in the underground area, which is not accessible to anyone but select library staff.

I want to go to there. 

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worldssmallestgiant:

You tell ‘em, library.

I fucking love the library.