25 najlepših knjižnic na svetu
David Johnston je v svojem prispevku z naslovom 25 Most Beautiful Libraries in the World, ki ga je objavil na blogu Road Affair, izbral in predstavil 25 knjižnic s celega sveta. Na blogu je med drugim zapisal, da nekatere knjižnice se s svojo osupljivo notranjostjo dvigajo na višjo raven. To so kraji, ki delujejo kot svetišča pisane besede, ne glede na to, ali so prežeti s stoletno zgodovino ali pa so v samem vrhu sodobnega oblikovanja.
Izpostavil je naslednjih 25 najlepših knjižnic na svetu:
- Admont Abbey Library (Admont, Austria)
- George Peabody Library (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
- Mafra Palace Library (Mafra, Portugal)
- Trinity College Library (Dublin, Ireland)
- Abbey Library of Saint Gall (St. Gallen, Switzerland)
- Royal Portuguese Reading Room (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
- National Library of the Girolamini Oratory (Naples, Italy)
- Seattle Central Library (Seattle, Washington, USA)
- Stuttgart City Library (Stuttgart, Germany)
- Library of Parliament (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
- Strahov Monastery Library (Prague, Czechia)
- Rijksmuseum Research Library (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Biblioteca Joanina (Coimbra, Portugal)
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Alexandria, Egypt)
- Sainte-Geneviève Library (Paris, France)
- Royal Library of San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Madrid, Spain)
- Morgan Library & Museum (New York, New York, USA)
- José Vasconcelos Library (Mexico City, Mexico)
- Austrian National Library (Vienna, Austria)
- Tama Art University Library (Tokyo, Japan)
- State Library of South Australia (Adelaide, Australia)
- Wiblingen Monastery Library (Ulm, Germany)
- Tianjin Binhai Library (Tianjin, China)
- Richard J. Riordan Central Library (Los Angeles, California, USA)
- University Library of Leuven (Leuven, Belgium)