Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Antonio Panizzi: ''the fact of a man's being a political exile does not exclude him from the Reading Room.''

This NYT article from 1997 describes the establishment and relocation of the British Library's famous circular reading room. For the anglophiles and book lovers among us, it is an interesting trip back to Panizzi's time: http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/09/bookend/bookend.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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Destinee said...

If you're ever in England, they reopened the reading room in 2000 to the general public, so you no longer need special permission to walk its hallowed roundness:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/the_museum/the_building/reading_room.aspx

October 3, 2007 at 3:05 PM

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