The Library
The Library is a large building located in the Capital and is home to a public library collection that is accessible to the public during the day.
It is the headquarters of the Archivists, an order of scholars who have dedicated their lives to research and academia. The Library’s main library is public, however, there are also some collections and books kept private.
The library building is a large brick building located on the main street, a few blocks away from the palace. It has two floors taken up by the main hall and the offices and research rooms. There is also a basement that houses the private archives and storage rooms.
Features
The Main Hall
The Library’s Main Hall is the most visited part of the building, being home to the public library collection. The main hall is located in a large main hall with bookshelves lining the walls and balconies as well as forming aisles.
The Public is generally restricted to the main hall, as well as the handful of small study rooms attached; if they wish to go deeper into the building they need an archivist to accompany them.
Archivists Offices and Research rooms
The non-public areas of the Library include offices and research rooms. These are the rooms used by the Archivists for their private research as well as for their office work. These spaces also include labs used for experiments and special projects.
Full-fledged archivists get their own office space, with the apprentices having to share larger spaces often called study rooms.
These areas are not accessible to the public unless they have an appointment or have special permission. In most cases of this, they are going to visit with one of the archivists.
Archives and Private Collections
The Library has a number of private collections not available for public viewing. These private collections are kept in the Library archives located in the building’s basement archives where they can be kept safe from sunlight. Storerooms are also kept in this space, albeit separate from the main archives.
The items in such collections may be kept out of public view due to their fragility, lack of interest, or a variety of other reasons. To view items in the collection a person must first get approval from the archivists and then when viewing must be supervised and take care in handling the objects.
Some of the collections are not allowed to be seen except for a select number of senior archivists and important members of the royal family.
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