lalibrairie: The Oxford Union Library, Oxford, United Kingdom On the walls are Pre-Raphaelites murals, painted by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. It also has a unique clerestory (Wikipedia will tell you all about it here).
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam - Rreading Room, the largest public art history research library in Netherlands. Get in touch for a private tour.
Rijkmuseum Library, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, photograph by Candida Höfer.
A man browsing for books in Cincinnati’s main library. Demolished in 1955 My idea of heaven!
San Simeon, CA, USA: The Hearst Castle Gothic Study contains books and was used as the executive board room by William Randolph Hearst.
San Simeon, CA, USA: The Hearst Castle Gothic Study contains books and was used as the executive board room by William Randolph Hearst.
The Bibliothèque Nationale de France holds 14 million books and publications million if you include digital articles) and has staff
MVRDV: book mountain + library quarter, spijkenisse, the netherlands
Rio de Janeiro's Regal Reading Room Constructed between 1880 and Rio de Janeiro’s Royal Portuguese Reading Room (The Real Gabinete Português de Leitura) houses the largest and most valuable collection of Portuguese literature outside of Portugal
50 of the Most Majestic Libraries in the World. The Library Of Congress, Washington, DC, USA