The most impressive visit with Battaglia is the one to the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Our university already had a very large Suzzallo library with long history, but the Austrian National library shocked me not only with its grandiose architecture but also with its huge quantity of the books.
This book is about 500 years old. When i held it, i felt so excited that i cannot believe the book in my hand is 15 times older than me. In this library, there are thousands of books are same or older than that one.
Following the Officer, we went to several floors under the ground. I do not know how accurate depth its has, but when we walked along the stairs to the deepest floor, i felt a little tired and had a sense of suppression in the chest. At the downstairs, there are a lot of reading rooms for public. This machine is a little robot for sending books. The officer put the book being returned from public on the blue robot and then it goes up along the track sending the book to the right place. With this machine, only several staff can handle with the order of such a huge library. This library is only a little part of our whole visit, and after these visits with Battaglia, i know the Vienna and the Austria deeply, and the explanation of Battaglia is really useful and interesting. Thanks a lot!
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