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Welcome to the New York Public Library. Les bibliothèques municipales de Grenoble. BnF - Biblioth?que num?rique des enfants. Statsbiblioteket — statsbiblioteket. Sinki City Library - Frontpage. Visiting the Most Modern Library in the World. Ear­lier this month I had the incred­i­ble good for­tune to visit DOK in Delft, Hol­land. Nor­mally I would call it the Delft Pub­lic Library, but it just goes by the name “DOK” and the sign on the door says it’s a “library con­cept cen­ter.” The staff did this on pur­pose to get away from the tra­di­tional stereo­types of the pub­lic library, because the insti­tu­tion they’ve cre­ated is about as far away as you can get from the con­no­ta­tion of a 1950s build­ing, filled with quiet peo­ple, all of them sit­ting alone, in a rel­a­tively dreary build­ing, being shushed by an old lady with a bun.

Instead, it is eas­ily the most col­or­ful and aesthetically-pleasing library I have ever seen. Granted, I’ve seen a very small per­cent­age of the world’s libraries, but the use of a diverse palette of bright and unusual col­ors was a very stark con­trast to every other library I have seen in per­son or in pictures. Be Socia­ble, Share! DOK Library Concept Center : un album.