Location from The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
The greatest library in the world, holding countless thousands of books, scrolls, and manuscripts in its vast stone Stacks. Within it stands the mysterious Four-Plate Door.
The Archives are not merely a library but a labyrinth. The Stacks extend deeper than anyone has fully mapped, and the cataloguing system — the Tomes — is the only lifeline between a scholar and the knowledge they seek. Lose your way in the deeper Stacks and you might wander for hours among books no one has read in centuries. Master Lorren runs the Archives with an iron hand and a reverence for silence that borders on the religious. Students who bring so much as a candle into the Stacks risk being banned for life. And then there is the Four-Plate Door — flush with the wall, sealed beyond any lock or key, the subject of a thousand theories and no answers. Kvothe was once banned from the Archives, a punishment that nearly broke him.
An enormous building of grey stone with high, narrow windows. Inside, the Stacks descend level upon level — corridors of stone shelving stretching into lampless dark. The air is cool and dry, preserved by ancient engineering. Near the center stands a door of smooth grey stone with four copper plates and no handle.
Also known as: the Archives, the Stacks, the Library