Kitapların gücü okunmalarıdır kütüphanelerde sıraya dizilişi değildir diye bir fikre sahip olsamda evimde güzel bir kitaplık oluşturma hayalim var uzun zamandır. Zaten kimin hayali değildir ki ..

Dünyanın en ünlü kütüphanelerini araştırırken elbetteki Türkiye'de kütüphanelere verilen değerden bahsetmemek ayıp olur . Medeniyetin beşiği kabul edilen Anadolu , tarihin en büyük imparatorluklarına ev sahibi olmuş İstanbul 'da , dünya çapında bir kütüphanemiz olmamasını kim nasıl açıklar bilemiyorum . Sultanahmet'te Osmanlı zamanından kalma birkaç yer olduğunu hatırlıyorum ama kaç kişinin o kütüphaneler hakkında bilgisi var . ? Sahip çıkmadığımız onca tarihi kültürel değerlerden bir diğeri daha işte ..

Bizde olmayışına hayıflanmayı bırakıp dünyadaki muazzam güzellikteki kütüphanelere geçmek istiyorum . Anlatması tuhaf bir duygu ama sadece fotoğraflarına bakmak bile çok güzel bir manzaraya bakmak gibi etkiledi beni. Hem mimarileri hem bazılarının taşıdığı tarihi hava hemde onca kitabın aynı anda biryerde bulunmasının huzuru .. Evet huzur bence . Binlerce kitap birarada huzur olur ..

Eğer bu şehirlere birgün fırsatım olurda gidersem ilk görmek isteceyeğim yerler bu kütüphaneler olacak . Özellikle Baltimore 'da ki ve Londra British Mesuem'da ki okuma odası . . İnsanlardaki mütevazliğe dikkatinizi çekmek istiyorum okuma odası demişler Okuma odasından başlıyorum forograflara ..

British Museum Reading Room , London , England


Strahov Theological Hall; Statue of John the Evangelist Holding a Book


Strahov Theological Hall - Original Baroque Cabinets


Strahov Philosophical Hall


Joanina LIbrary University of Coimbra, Portugal


Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek Weimar II, Germany


George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, USA


Dutch Royal Archives Library, Netherlands


Cathedral Library, Kalocsa, Hungary


Boston Copley Public Library, Boston, USA


Bodlein Library, Oxford University, England


Bibliotheque Alencon, Normandy, France


Bibliotecha de la Real Academia De La Lengua, Madrid, Spain


Biblioteca Palafoxiana, Puebla, Mexico


Biblioteca Geral University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal


Biblioteca do Palacio e Convento de Mafra I, Lisbon Coast, Portugal


Biblioteca Angelica, Rome, Italy


Bernadotte Library, Stockholm Sweden


Abbey Library St. Gallen, Switzerland


Bunlarda tarihteki diğer büyük kütüphaneler , çoğu yokolmuş . Daha detaylı bilgiye http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library#Famous_libraries linkinden ulaşabilirsiniz.

* Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh, founded between 669-631 BC.
* Egypt's Library of Alexandria (founded in 3rd century BC) and modern Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
* Baghdad's House of Wisdom, founded in 8th century AD.
* Islamic Spain's library of Cordoba, founded in 9th century.
* Egypt's library of Cairo, founded in 10th century.
* Tripoli's Dar il-'ilm, destroyed in 1109.
* Ambrosian Library in Milan opened to the public, December 8, 1609.
* Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) in Paris, 1720.
* Boston Public Library in Boston, 1826.
* Bodleian Library at University of Oxford 1602, books collection begin around 1252.
* Boston Public Library, an early public lending library in America, was established in 1848.
* British Library in London created in 1973 by the British Library Act of 1972 (Originally part of the British Museum founded 1753).
* British Library of Political and Economic Science in London, 1896.
* Butler Library at Columbia University, 1934
* Cambridge University Library at University of Cambridge, 1931.
* Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, 1895.
* Carolina Rediviva at Uppsala University, 1841
* Dutch Royal Library in The Hague, 1798
* The European Library, 2004
* Firestone Library at Princeton University, 1948
* Fisher Library at the University of Sydney (largest in the Southern Hemisphere), 1908
* Franklin Public Library in Franklin, Massachusetts (the first public library in the U.S.; original books donated by Benjamin Franklin in 1731)
* Free Library of Philadelphia in Philadelphia established February 18, 1891.
* Garrison Library in Gibraltar, 1793.
* Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University, 1924, probably the largest single-building university library in the world.
* Haskell Free Library and Opera House, which straddles the Canada-US border.
* House of Commons Library, Westminster, London. Established 1818.
* Jenkins Law Library in Philadelphia founded 1802.
* Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem, Israel, 1892.
* John Rylands Library in Manchester 1972.
* Leiden University Library at Leiden University in Leiden began at 1575 with confiscated monastery books. Officially open in October 31, 1587.
* Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. 1800.
* Library of Sir Thomas Browne, 1711
* Mitchell Library in Glasgow (Europe's largest public reference library)
* National Library of Belarus in Minsk, 2006.
* National Library of Australia in Canberra, Australia
* National Library of Iran, 1937.
* National Library of Ireland in Dublin, 1877.
* National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh, 1925.
* National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, 1907.
* New York Public Library in New York
* Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
* Powell Library at UCLA, part of the UCLA Library.
* Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago, one of the largest repositories of books in the world.
* Royal Library in Copenhagen, 1793.
* Russian State Library in Moscow, 1862.
* Sassanid's ancient Library of Gondishapur around 489.
* Seattle Central Library
* Staatsbibliothek in Berlin
* State Library of New South Wales in Sydney
* State Library of Victoria in Melbourne
* Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University, 1931.
* St. Marys Church, Reigate, Surrey houses the first public lending library in England. Opened 14 March 1701.
* The St. Phillips Church Parsonage Provincial Library, established in 1698 in Charleston, South Carolina, was the first public lending library in the American Colonies. See also Benjamin Franklin's free public library in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
* Vatican Library in Vatican City, 1448 (but existed before).
* Widener Library at Harvard University (Harvard University Library including all branches has the largest academic collection overall.)