Barbican Library

The Barbican Library consists of the main library, the Music Library, and the Children's Library. The library as a whole is located in the Barbican Center.

The design of all three libraries was amazing. And the main library has a section for baby strollers to be parked.

The children's library has books hanging from the ceiling which makes it very inviting along with all of the toys and bright colors. The books are arranged into age order all the way up to tweens. The teens are just outside the door in the main library.

The main library had many different sections of books such as both World Wars, American History, Finance, and then the different types of fiction books. Thriller, Romance, Action, etc.

I am doing my paper for this class on the Barbican Music Library.

The Barbican Music Library is one of the 4 music libraries in London. Its collection consists of almost 16,000 music scores as well as books on both music and musicians. The library also has over 16,000 CDs and DVDs that cover all genres. It also has over 100 e-books that can be downloaded. They also use online resources that consist of: Oxford Music Online, Proquest: Music Periodicals Database, Naxos Music and Video Library and the Barbican Song Index. The library has Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram accounts.

The music library has 2 pianos which can be booked to use up to an hour a day with the use of headphones. The library has had over 16 exhibitions. The one displayed while we were there was "It's (not) only Rock 'n' Roll - the Music Photography of Mark Allen.


Ending Thoughts: I absolutely loved the Barbican Library mainly the children's and music library and hope to one day return.


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https://www.barbican.org.uk/your-visit/during-your-visit/library