
One summer while on a monastery library crawl of Austria, we made a stop at the Abbey of St. Florian in Sankt Florian, Austria. The abbey is a shrine to St. Florian, the patron saint against flood and fire and…
In honor of National Library Week, we’re featuring libraries we’ve encountered in our travels. Our first stop is the first public library in California – the Monterey Public Library. Established in 1849, the Monterey Public Library started out as a shareholders library with the first members paying…
The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, is a collection of thousands of clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds from the 7th century BC. The British Museum is re-cataloguing and studying the 30,000 volume Library.…