Aalto's first set of plans for the municipal library in Viipuri had encountered its own snags.

The hotel de ville occupies the former Hotel du Presidial, an obsolete tribunal, and contains the municipal library.

Like a studious schoolgirl, she sat in the waning light of a vast municipal library, and she learned things.

Today the Cape Town Municipal Library is housed in the City Hall.

One of the lockdown regulations was that municipal libraries should be closed.