This is Bertold... Bertold-Aristote-Friedrich.
He's Melvil Dewey's great-grandnephew. (You know, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification system for library classification).
The Dewey Decimal System, he invented in 1876, became the standard in libraries around the world. "If it weren't for Melvil Dewey, finding the books you want in the library might be as frustrating as looking for a needle in a haystack" he says ...
It attempts to organize all knowledge into ten main classes. The ten main classes are then further subdivided.
You know these strange labels sticked on the back of books ... that's Melvil's invention!
So, faithful to his famous ancestor, Bertold's first wish is to visit as many libraries as possible to see if they still use this classification... and collect reader's cards ... (he also dreams he could visit pretigious librairies, such as The British Library, The BNF (French National Library), The New York Public Library or the Library of Congress (to compare their own classification to the Dewey's).
Meanwhile, here are some pictures of the different libraries he went to :
The Bibliothèque d'Etudes et du Patrimoine of Toulouse.
Inaugurated in October 1935, the building sheltering the library of the street of Périgord is owed to the architect of the city, Jean Montariol. Of a surface of 9000m2, it is one of the most important achievements in France as regards libraries between the two worldwars.
It is characterized by a monumental reading room, with a height under ceiling of 15m without only one pillar, and lit by immense bays and a splendid cupola in multicoloured paving stones of glass.
Old woman of more than 60 years, the library has been totally restored in 1995
Bertold loves to go there and read his favourite authors (in the Pléïade collection)
He also likes to read philosophy
Ethics, systems and doctrins ...
and uses to spend hours reading the Universalis Encyclopedy
He's also very interested in all that concerns sciences end mathematics
(he loves numbers !!!!)
and also enginnering and technology ... Another of his wish is to visit great engineers realizations such as the Glenn canyon Dam, or the Thames one .. But also great bridges or buildings etc ...
