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Rocky, I'm the same way about conversations with strangers in awkward circumstances. That's one of the reasons I don't like riding elevators.

Usually when I'm in an elevator with people I don't know, I only say what is necessary to be polite ("Five, please"; "Excuse me" etc.).

I'm partial to Zippy's conversation starter: "Are we having fun yet?"

And it just hit me: I don't think I've worked in any establishment that has elevators in about a year now. Weird.

It's been seven-and-a-half since I worked in a building with an elevator. That was when I left our Central Library and went to managing a branch.

There's a German horror movie about an elevator titled "The Lift." It's one of the few 80s horror movies I haven't seen yet.

The elevators in the building I work in could be from a German horror movie, with all the random stopping and starting.

The only elevator I was ever trapped in was in Germany.

I was trapped in an elevator for 45 minutes with a colleague once. We played Twenty Questions to pass the time.

I secretly always wanted to live on the 13th Floor.

Viewed from certain angles the Robarts Library at U of Toronto resembles an upside down rocket ship with its nose planted into the ground.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robarts_Library

I wish my library looked like the Legion Clubhouse!

I'm squinting at those pics like crazy, but I'm just not seeing the rocketship.



Perhaps more coffee is in order?

You have to get two secondary buildings attached via skyways in frame. They look like booster rockets.

Resuming our tour of Canadian libraries, this is the main hall of the Toronto Reference Library . You can see the dual glass elevators in the center. At the bottom of the frame over the circulation desk you can see the piece of art Ramona Flowers ripped off its hinges to defend herself when she was attacked by Knives Chau in Scott Pilgrim v2.

I've been there, and seen it from various angles. I, too, do not see it.

My library, on the other hand, has a swooshy roof.

Perhaps I imagine too much from the brutalist concrete. Moving out of the city, we can continue our tour of Canadian libraries.

This one is close to my heart as it is located at my alma mater (Queen's University) at scenic Kingston Ontario. Stauffer Library was where I spent many a day <strike> looking at bonnie lassies</strike> studying sin auld lang syne.

Opened in 1994, it is a gothic-styled structure clad in limestone (as all of the Uni's recent buildings are) to match the older pre-modernist buildings on campus. The exterior resembles a castle, with the south battlement intended as a patio. The area was closed in the first month of operation when engineering students created their own circulation system for books from the battlement. Inside, the library is dominated by a grand spiral staircase which provides the atrium a view of those ascending to the quieter upper levels.

The first library I managed was called the Ring Library and it is indeed round.

Speaking of oddly shaped buildings. There's no building stranger than the Sharp Centre for Design at the Ontario College of Art & Design .

It's signature building is shaped like a vinyl eraser supported by twelve pencil crayons. I believe the diagonal orange support is the stairway to access the building.

Where on your tour is Library of Parliament in Ottawa, Tampy? A truly beautiful bookspace.

I was gonna hit Ottawa next because I lived there for several years. I'll talk about the fire. But before we hit that gothic cathedral that is the Parliament of Canada we have to go to the Library I used when I was in Ottawa.

A former colleague of mine got a job at Ottawa Public Library. A requirement of all their public service staff is that they must be fully bilingual (English/French).

One of the most recognizable building silhouettes in Canada is the Centre Block on Parliament Hill.

The current Centre Block is actually not the original building, That building burned to the ground in 1916. In fact the only part of the original Canadian that remains is the Library of Parliament located opposite of the Peace Tower at the back of the building directly adjacent to the Ottawa River.

This building contains the green-carpeted House of Commons and the red-carpteted Senate. Echoing the Mother Parliaments at Westminister, Parliament is opened in a ceremony whereby the Monarch, (or more commonly the Governor General acting as the Vice-Regal Representative) sitting in the Speaker's Throne in the Senate sends the Usher of the Black Rod from the Senate to the opposite end of the Building where the Usher bangs on the barred door of the House of Commons to summon the Speaker of the House and the assembled MPs to the Senate Chamber to hear the speech from the throne. This speech delivered by the Monarch or Governor-General outlines the Prime Minister's agenda for the next parliamentary session.

When I lived in Michigan in the late '90s, I used to love watching this on the sign-off on the CBC station from Windsor.

O Canada was a controversial choice for National Anthem. Many Ontarians would have preferred the Maple Leaf Forever but the lyrics of that song are not acceptable to French Canada.

If you watch old Canadian WWII newsreels they will almost always have the Maple Leaf Forever in the soundtrack as opposed to O Canada. However these days the song is pretty much only sung in this form by arch-monarchists and those who still want the Red Ensign to be be the National Flag.

Canada should do the right thing and adopt "Free Will" by Rush as the new National Anthem.