Lauren Bacall na biblioteca / Lauren Bacall at the library

Coca-Cola na biblioteca / Library Coca-Cola

Ler pode dar sede... de mais livros. :)

Um livro da biblioteca não devolvido / A library book 42 years overdue

De Shel Silverstein.

O "Baile Da Biblioteca" pelos Cabeças no Ar

A música dos Cabeças no Ar (2002) é escrita por Carlos Tê.

Baile Da Biblioteca Cabeças no Ar

Sou o vosso professor
E sei de um baile de gala
Que se dá todas as noites
... Nas estantes da tua sala

Olha Ulisses o Argonauta
A dançar com o mar à proa
Aquele é o senhor Fernando
A dançar com a sua Pessoa

Olha o mestre Gil Vicente
Entre a raínha e o bobo
E aquele à frente é o Aleixo
É o poeta do povo

É o baile, é o baile, é o baile
É o baile, é o baile, é o baile
É o baile, é o baile, é o baile, é o baile
Da biblioteca

Sai o Zorro de rompante
Numa lombada de couro
A declarar ser migrante
Para a ilha do tesouro

Ao piano o Conde d'Abranhos
Não dá sinais de abrandar
É preciso o sol nascer
Para o baile acabar

Como se anda Dom Quixote
Largando da mão a lança
Vamos dormir criaturas
Que amanhã também se dança

É o baile, é o baile, é o baile
É o baile, é o baile, é o baile
É o baile, é o baile, é o baile, é o baile
Da biblioteca

O livro ou a vida! JÁ! / Give me that book! NOW!

Há livros valiosos!

Um beijo apaixonado na biblioteca / A passionate kiss in the library

Um poema sobre a Biblioteca Pública / A poem about Public Libraries

Julia Donaldson escreveu um poema para comemorar o National Libraries Day no Reino Unido:


Everyone is welcome to walk through the door.
It really doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor.
There are books in boxes and books on shelves.
They’re free for you to borrow, so help yourselves.


Come and meet your heroes, old and new,
From William the Conqueror to Winnie the Pooh.
You can look into the Mirror or read The Times,
Or bring along a toddler to chant some rhymes.


The librarian’s a friend who loves to lend,
So see if there’s a book that she can recommend.
Read that book, and if you’re bitten
You can borrow all the other ones the author’s written.


Are you into battles or biography?
Are you keen on gerbils or geography?
Gardening or ghosts? Sharks or science fiction?
There’s something here for everyone, whatever your addiction.


There are students revising, deep in concentration,
And school kids doing projects, finding inspiration.
Over in the corner there’s a table with seating,
So come along and join in the Book Club meeting.


Yes, come to the library! Browse and borrow,
And help make sure it’ll still be here tomorrow.

Os fantásticos livros voadores do Sr. Morris Lessmore / The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (2011) é uma curta animação lindíssima que toca sobretudo aos amantes de livros.

Namorados leitores / Valentine readers

Árvore de Natal bibliotecária / Librarian Christmas Tree

Árvore de Natal entre livros / A Christmas tree among books

Ratos na biblioteca / Mouses in the library

Yaoi Sensei

Um urso na biblioteca / A bear in the library

Via Pinzellades al Món

4 citações sobre bibliotecas e bibliotecários / 4 quotes about libraries and librarians

“Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barely possible to see paintwork. There were all different styles and sizes of lettering on the spines of the black, the red, the gray, the every-colored books. It was one of the most beautiful things Liesel Meminger had ever seen.
With wonder, she smiled. That such a room existed!”

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief "The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.” Vartan Gregorian “It took a bit of popcorn and a library snack bar to make me realize that being a librarian was about more than just giving people information. It was about serving a community. And if the community is hungry for more than just knowledge, then maybe it’s about time to open a snack bar.”   Scott Douglas "Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.” Neil Gaiman :)

Já que chove tanto, que chovam livros / It's raining books, aleluia!

Miss Piggy bibliotecária e Cocas seu dedicado leitor

A Internet é a maior biblioteca do mundo...só que os livros estão todos espalhados pelo chão.

“The Internet is the world’s largest library. It’s just that all the books are on the floor.” 

John Allen Paulos

O odor de centenas de livros / The smell of hundreds of books

Uma leitora em Nova York, c. 1921.

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.

Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

Ouvem os livros a falar uns com os outros? / Books speak among themselves

“Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.” 

Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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Uma luz ao fundo da biblioteca / A library with magic light