Richard Fisher visits the Future Library in Oslo to find out ... desks and children leafing through picture books – you arrive at what looks like a wooden cave, in a quiet corner among the ...

“We wanted to give it a book-like atmosphere,” Mr. Brockschmidt ... To help create a cozy vibe in a library, look beyond a single bright ceiling fixture at the center of the room.

The Denmark-based Human Library — that’s “Menneskebiblioteket” in Danish ... “I hope I help people to become unjudgmental about what they perceive a life of addiction may look like or what a person ...