Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, France.

In these days of eReaders, digital technology and film, looking at this image it's difficult to imagine the demise of the book as anything imminent.

In a photo essay in The Telegraph of London, 16 of the most spectacular libraries in the world are described in understated simplicity. They are part of a larger project by Will Pryce, a London-based photographer. Not all of the libraries were created in an aesthetic I could live with--no thank you, rococo--but their distribution across centuries and around the planet speaks to something profound in the human experience.

I've selected the Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve to feature here as a small tribute to the film Hugo, where the youngsters are found searching for information on Georges Melies. And we come back to the Book: the film is from an extraordinary story and book called The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick.

The Book is a Jungian archetype, existing whether or not humans pay attention to it. It is, was, and always shall be. Perhaps The Library is as well?