Antonio Montes Gil   Spain   In the town of Molins de Rei, in Barcelona, the new El Molí Library – previous Biblioteca Pau Vila – is located in the old industrial warehouse of Ferrer y Mora, a textile factory built in 1858, also known as ‘fábrica del molí’ because of its locatio

Libraries are perhaps the most famous buildings in the West. They have probably also been the most useful. Certainly no one will question their worth as symbols of an entire culture, if not an entire civilization. For our civilization – or at least f