That is such a gorgeous library! I really need to photograph the National Library of Medicine the next time I'm back to NIH in a few months: it's no where near the natural wood look of the Epinal, but it is quite cool. It is built in to a hillside to give it resistance in case an atom bomb was ever dropped on DC, and the bill that established funding for it was by two senators, one was Senator John F. Kennedy, but he was the junior, so it wasn't named after him.

Today all libraries just seem to be metal and concrete monstrosities, no soul to them. Sadly that also seems to describe the country's leaning.