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| A Portuguese Library in Rio |
"Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome."
~William Ewart Gladstone
As a follow up to yesterday's post "LIBRARY EXPLORATIONS": Have you been to the library lately? What library do you frequent with your kids and why? (If you write a post about it on your blog, I'll link to it).
What a gorgeous library! We walk across the street to our small Cincinnati Public Library a couple of times per week. This Saturday we're going to the larger branch downtown where they're going to have a Chinese New Year celebration program! We've gone in the past and it's usually excellent!!!
ReplyDeleteTake your camera and if you blog about it, send me the link! Have fun - we used to love going to Chinese New Year festivities when the kids were young. :)
ReplyDeleteAbout the library above: (From Frommers)...
Review of Real Gabinete Português (Royal Portuguese Reading Room)
"A temple to books. The interior of Real Gabinete Português is four stories tall, capped with a stained-glass cupola and illuminated by an elaborate chandelier. It's worth stepping inside just to see the room. Created in 1837 by the culture-starved (so they said) Portuguese, the reading room contains over 350,000 volumes, many of them from the 17th and 18th centuries. Just by showing ID (and maybe filling out a form -- it depends on who's working) visitors can request, obtain, and peruse these books, for as long as the room is open."