Results: Happy 125th Anniversary New York Public Library!
Published on 01/18/2020
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The New York Public Library is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year. The library first opened in 1895, and with nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second largest public library in the United States (behind the Library Of Congress) and the third largest in the world. The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, commonly known as the Main Branch, is the flagship building in the New York Public Library system and a landmark in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The branch, one of four research libraries in the library system, contains nine separate divisions. Have you ever gone into this library?
Yes
11%
270 votes
No
59%
1440 votes
Have never been to NYC
29%
715 votes
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NYPL released a list of the top 10 checkouts since the library first opened 125 years ago. Here are the books on that list. Which of these have you read?
The Snowy Day -- Ezra Jack Keats
8%
183 votes
The Cat in the Hat -- Dr. Seuss
55%
1337 votes
1984 -- George Orwell
29%
703 votes
Where the Wild Things Are -- Maurice Sendak
24%
572 votes
To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee
40%
961 votes
Charlotte's Web -- E. B. White and Garth Williams
42%
1023 votes
Fahrenheit 451 -- Ray Bradbury
19%
467 votes
How to Win Friends and Influence People -- Dale Carnegie
10%
250 votes
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone -- J.K. Rowling
20%
474 votes
The Very Hungry Caterpillar -- Eric Carle
20%
479 votes
All of them
2%
53 votes
None
26%
636 votes
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Located in Fez, Morocco, the al-Qarawiyyin library is part of the world's oldest continually operating university, al-Qarawiyyin University, which opened in 859. In 2016, 1,160 years after it first opened, the world's oldest library has been fully restored and opened to the public. Al-Qarawiyyin is home to approximately 4,000 manuscripts, there are 9th-century Qurans written in Kufic calligraphy and the oldest known accounts of the life of the prophet Muhammed. Would you like to visit this library?
Yes
41%
984 votes
No
35%
845 votes
Undecided
25%
596 votes
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Public libraries can enrich the mind as well as the spirit. These libraries are some of the most beautiful in the world, showing that the pursuit of knowledge can be both intellectually and aesthetically satisfying. Which of these have you visited?
Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada -- Located in Canada's capital, this sophisticated library opened in 1867 (the same year the country was "born"), and was designed in the Victorian Gothic Revival style.
9%
209 votes
Seattle Central Library, Washington, USA -- As many visitors come to this library to admire its arresting architecture as they do to take out books. The structure's ultra-modern, unorthodox appearance resembles a series of floating boxes outlined in steel and wrapped entirely in glass
5%
132 votes
Abbey Library of Saint Gall, St. Gallen, Switzerland -- Dating back to 719 AD, the library and abbey are listed as UNESCO World Heritage sites and nearly half of the more than 150,000 tomes date back to the Middle Ages. Some books are even said to be more than 1000 years old.
3%
65 votes
Royal Portuguese Reading Room, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- One of South America's most famous and certainly among the planet's most picturesque. Created in 1837 as a repository for Portuguese literature, visitors come from all over to admire its decorative style of design
2%
55 votes
Stuttgart City Library, Stuttgart, Germany -- Opened in 2011, the modernist, multi-storied, airy space is connected via wide, open staircases. The books add a few splashes of color and are an eye-catching contrast to the rest of the all-white interior.
2%
47 votes
George Peabody Library, Baltimore, USA -- Often referred to as Baltimore's "Cathedral of Books," it's a kind of love song to Baltimore from Peabody who dedicated the library to the people of Baltimore for their "kindness and hospitality." Opened in 1878, massive skylights overseen five rows of ornate balconies that descend to an elegant white marble floor.
3%
66 votes
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy -- Part of the church of San Lorenzo – the church of the Medici family – the upstairs library, which opened in 1571, was designed by Michelangelo, and contains the private collection of the Medici dynasty.
2%
47 votes
Austrian National Library, Vienna, Austria -- Austria's largest library is also its most spectacular, with its central State Hall – opened in 1723 as a royal library – an extraordinary combination of baroque flair and traditional library design, with grand marble sculptures between the shelves, bookcases propped up by ionic columns and frescoed ceilings and marble flooring
2%
47 votes
None of them
82%
1988 votes
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