St Orens, France - 22nd September 2007
By: Mood
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 ...
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Posted Sep 22, 2007, 6:03 pm Last edited Sep 22, 2007, 7:15 pm by Mood
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On his way to Russia, airplane - 1st October 2007
By: Mood
Bertold has just learnt he was going to visit Kristl in Moscow ... !!! He's very impatient and has started to revise his russian lessons
Indeed, he studied Russian when he was younger ...
He's going to travel with Luffy ... and hopes his travel won't be too long as he's quite afraid in plane !!!!
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Posted Oct 22, 2007, 5:48 pm
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Moscow, Russia - 23rd October 2007
By: kristl
Dear Mood and all the other,
hello from Moscow - privet!
Fuf, I and Luffy are finally in Moscow with Kristl. The journey was long but comortable, never the less we are a bit tired.
We were met by Kristl and some toys - Archibald was there, the young lady Finnii, that came here at one day with him, a rose bear who weared TV T-shirt and a very shy bearwho is called Beary and who is going to became a TV too.
We're in Kristl's flat now and there's much interesting to see here!! I'll write here later and of course will post some photos.
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Finally I have time to show some photos.. They're not perfect of course, but you can see what is happening here.
Here we're with Luffy. We've just got out from the box at the post office and saw Kristl for the first time.
And here we're with other toys on our way to Kristl's home - in her rucksack in metro train. You can also see here: Luffy, Archibald and the rose bear.
The same with Beary and young lady Finnii:
I have much more to tell and show.. Just need time. I'm quite busy here, you know. Kristl promised that we'll visit the new University Library on Thursday.
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Posted Oct 23, 2007, 1:29 pm Last edited Oct 25, 2007, 4:46 am by kristl
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Moscow, Russia - 27th November 2007
By: kristl
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Posted Nov 27, 2007, 11:14 am Last edited Nov 27, 2007, 1:36 pm by kristl
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Kalmar, Sweden - 27th November 2007
By: kristl
November 14, 2007
And here are some more photos from Sweden with many stuff toys!!! We're watching a cartoon
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Posted Nov 27, 2007, 1:38 pm
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Moscow, Russia - 27th November 2007
By: kristl
November 10, 2007
We're ready to travel to Sweden!
P.S. Sorry that photos aren't in chronological order.. But I write the date above so you can understand everything right, I think.. )
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Posted Nov 27, 2007, 1:40 pm
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Zheleznodorozhny, Russia - 2nd December 2007
By: kristl
Dear Mood,
todaz we walked in a nice park with many firtrees and pines that stood covered with snow. It was a bit cold, but we TVs travelled in Kristl's rucksack so I hope I didnät caught cold. Sunny winter days in forest are allways beautiful..
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Posted Dec 2, 2007, 4:20 pm
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Zheleznodorozhny, Russia - 3rd December 2007
By: kristl
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Posted Dec 8, 2007, 7:29 pm Last edited Jan 6, 2008, 1:37 pm by kristl
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