The library has always been my favourite public building. This library consists of a big main room with pillars of green and white marble supporting a ceiling at least 15 metres above your head. About halfway up to the ceiling, there is a balcony which encircles the whole room. There, you see rows of tables, each with a comfortable chair, a lamp and a single shelf.
Some people looking like researchers are busy doing researchy things up there.
There are book-shelves all the way from the floor and to the balcony, with small round windows in vertical rows in the spaces between the shelves. The upper shelves can be reached by means of one of the seven ladders which hang from the top of the bookcase and can be pushed around the room on a pulley. It is my sincere hope that this web page or one of the pages it links to will get you away from your computer to read a book instead. Approaching the shelves, you see that the books have been divided into different categories. Some authors can be reached in other libraries if you use L-space to get there.