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Parliamentary Library Tops HuffPost?s New List of Gorgeous Libraries

By Simon Chester

Long-standing Slaw readers may remember our salaciously titled post on beautiful libraries. The Huffington Post picked up on the idea in January and today the Parliamentary Library is topping the poll of the second batch.

Times are changing for libraries everywhere. But even as many libraries build their digital collections and amp up their technological offerings, we thought we’d take a step back and show our appreciation for the beauty of many of these vast collections of books. Below are some of the most amazingly beautiful libraries from around the world.

Slaw readers can vote – and suggest what’s missing: my candidates for the prettiest missing law libraries would be the Great Library at Osgoode Hall

and the Codrington Library at All Souls, which looks like this:

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on February 22, 2010 (boomark / email).