Wired Magazine
Built by Jay Walker, internet entrepreneur, this incredible 3,600 square-foot library on 3 levels in Walker's home in New England is not just a "library," a room filled with books. Oh, it has books all right – thousands of them, including rare, older books, incunabulae and incredibly ornate, jewel-encrusted tomes. But this "engagement space" also includes numerous artifacts of historical significance – a Sputnik, the napkin on which FDR in 1943 outlined his plan to win WWII – as well as just plain cool items like a chandelier from a James Bond movie and the original "Thing" hand from "The Addams Family."
http://www.beautiful-libraries.com/3000-1.html
I would love to peruse this library/part museum. I looked up what "incunabulae" was and it refers to printed texts prior to the year 1501 (Europe) and wikipedia states that:
"As of 2008, there are between 28,000 and 30,000 distinct incunable editions known to be extant (in existence) while the number of surviving copies in Germany alone is estimated at around 125,000".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incunable
Two additional photos of the library are on my flickr account, or you can go to the beautiful libraries website listed above.
Week 3 Thing 4 (3a) Learning 2.0
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