The rare book library at Yale University has no windows..because the walls are made of translucent marble.

victoriaseverus:

attack-on-sarcasm:

crookedwiings:

cloudfreed:

bbcbecausebenedictcumberbatch:

did-you-kno:

Source

*Heavy breathing*

because direct unfiltered sunlight may damage the older books and age them more quickly 🙂

*EXTREME HEAVY BREATHING*

I WANT TO GO!!

I like this post but it doesn’t even mention the brain collection in the health sciences library: http://library.medicine.yale.edu/cushingcenter