Shadow Flutter

I do volunteer work at the library. My love of libraries has been a lifetime affair ever since my dad and mom first took me to the local library all those years ago.  If you have read my TBR post, you know that I was a reluctant, slow reader, and that this greatly concerned my dad, a lifelong, voracious reader. Every day, after supper, my dad and my mom would retire to the den where they would read for the next several hours. They each had their own comfortable chair, each bookending  the pot belly stove which was doing double duty as the fireplace. My mom would pull a magazine off the magazine rack and leaf through it backwards. A strange way of reading, but it worked for her. For years I copied her, leafing though Mad Magazine backwards, wondering how one read this way. It was only later, when someone pointed out you can't read that way, that I realized my mom was only looking at the pictures. She loved magazines like House and Garden and Better Homes, because the...

The Camel Library of Kenya serves the Nomads of the desert.  Nomads are poor and can't afford their own books, and there is an 85.3% illiteracy rate among the people the library servers.  There are 3,500 members, and the books match the syllabus of the national education system. Story books are available for children.  A book can be borrowed for two weeks, the time it takes the camel library for a return visit. A camel library serves the nomadic people of the Gobi Desert too.  Above a little girl is mesmerized by the colorful covers of several children's books.

Admont Abbey Founded in 1074, the abbey's architecture, frescoes, sculptures, and books and manuscripts comprise one of the largest late Baroque works of art in Europe. Admont Church The church was designed by Wilhelm Buchner after the original one was destroyed by fire in 1865. Admont Library The Admont Library, which resides in the monestary, was designed by architect Josef Hueber, and is home to the largest monastic library in the world.  Containing over 200,000 volumes, 1,400 manuscripts — earliest from 8th century — and over 500 incunabula comprise the library jewels.  The library has been called the 8th wonder of the world and is open to the public. Ceiling Frescoes The library's ceiling frescoes were created by  Bartolomeo Altomonte . Sculptures The library's sculptures were created by Josef Stammel