Wednesday, March 15, 2006

City Library

An article from Monday's Star Metro about the Kuala Lumpur City Library. I've yet to poke my nose round the door, but I love the architecture (which echoes the Moorish style of other buildings in the area) and the interior looks cheerful and welcoming.

The figures look good too: 74,000 walk-ins since the opening and some 6,000 adults registered as members since it opened in 2004. (Aiyoh, musn't ask how many stolen library books!)

5 comments:

__mars said...

I've never been to there but there's a museum to the left, from the front. A must go museum, if you love Malaysian history.

Lydia Teh said...

Those of you who wants to go, take the LRT and stop at the Masjid Jamek station. It's a 10 minutes walk from there. I haven't been there but called up the library to ask for directions. I hate driving into KL.

Anonymous said...

that's easy enough to say.. but ten minutes in which direction ? :P

Lydia Teh said...

Haha, that was what I asked the tel operator. She just said walk in the direction of Dataran Merdeka.

Anonymous said...

Okay so I went there right, and they had Terry Pratchett in the Children's Library. Yay. So now I can't borrow it because I'm overage or something. Yeesh. Anyone with a grandchild I can borrow ? :D