Keeping (and Telling) the Past

This is a lovely selection of photographs of reading rooms for archival researchers, including “patrimonial collections with reading rooms where users can consult historical documents that are non-circulating and stored in closed stacks.” Look here for photos of Canadian, French, and Swiss institutions. Guignard, a librarian, also has posted images of libraries. These are helpful in considering what we, people on the street as well as professional memory keepers, researchers, and others, see as we pass and/or enter a repository of any sort.