On a recent business trip to Stockholm, I had the pleasure of being guided to the library at the Kulturhuset where an impressive collection of comics and manga was waiting to flabbergast me. A cursory walkthrough through the numerous shelves revealed an acquisitions policy that was very nicely alert to the broad international comics landscape. This collection offers incredible opportunities for anyone interested in the richness and the history of comics to not only read these texts but to also appreciate the tactile experience of the books as design objects themselves. And of course if you are a resident, it's all free to borrow!
The coup de grace was seeing a copy of the latest volume of IJOCA on prominent display behind the main circulation desk, alongside its neatly shelved preceding volumes.
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| The shelf behind the circulation desk of the Kulturhuset library. |
Gratitude to the Kulturehuset!
-Nick Nguyen