In Photos: Outstanding Libraries Around the World

A woman looks out of a window at Liyuan Library outside of Beijing. Every weekend, hundreds of bookworms flock to Liyuan Library in Jiaojiehe Village, a book sanctuary surrounded by chestnut, walnut, and peach trees, whose branches were used to decorate the building.

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A detail of the interior of the Long Room in the Old Library filled with 200,000 of Trinity College’s oldest books in Dublin, Ireland.

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A tourist takes pictures in the the Long Room of the Old Library in Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.

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