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Jul. 5th, 2010 12:53 am
The Seattle Public Library has a "books spiral." At the core of the building, a very gradual ramp goes around and around an escalator. Bookshelves and reading areas radiate off of the spiral. The floors of the building are designed to correspond to the Dewey Decimal system, so that as you traverse the fifth level you're passing the 500s, and the 600s are on the sixth level, and so on. Movable rubber squares tile the ramp, labeling the adjacent call numbers.
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Date: 2010-07-05 04:32 pm (UTC)Last time we were there, we went on an "underground tour" and that was fun. I've heard good things about the glass museum in Tacoma but we didn't actually make it there. There's always hanging around in Freemont and seeing the troll under the bridge...