http://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2014/mar/24/libraries-around-world-pictures?index=2
Two of my favourite libraries:
1)http://www.royalmasonic.herts.sch.uk/images/aerialview.jpg
The library is at the centre of this school which is built in a semi circle to astrological alignments with the clocktower aligned to the pole star. The circular building of the library has a spot in the middle to mark the centre. When you stand on this spot the book shelves radiate out like spikes from a wheel so that you cannot see any books,just the segmenting shelves. As you follow these lines out they fan across the lawns to the boarding houses which form the end of the radii at the circumference.So everything is co-ordinated according to this geometry with the library at the heart of it all. This would fit with masonic principles of mathematics.It is a beautiful campus.
This school was used as a location for the filming of the TV series, "Morse". the deputy heads rooms/house stood for Morse's house/rooms...see the picture of Virginia Woolf on the walls!
2)The tiny tall library at GMIT School of Art,designed by de Blacam and Meagher, "an elaborate game of hide and seek played with wood and light over five floors with the centre stairs like a pulpit and a maze of floors and strange spaces". The higher you climb the dizzier it gets! "The library has the atmosphere of a medieval whispering gallery, a massive theatrical space,one of the most original public spaces in recent years"
http://www.gmit.ie/sites/default/files/public/carousel/carousel4.jpg
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o186/gerbear727/bia%202012/img_132_IMG_1-1.jpg
So if the library is a neglected space on the perimeter you know what that means.
3) Also this library from "Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco ! Love the book and the library. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aedificium_Labyrinth.jpg
