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North Pole, Alaska.
"Where the Spirit of Christmas Lives Year Round”
Now that Christmas is over Santa can catch up on some reading.
These images show books and current art exhibits at the Public Library in Georgetown, Central Texas. The photographs were taken with a vintage all manual Nikon 135 mm f2.8 AI-S prime manual lens as well as a very capable 28-105 mm f3.5-4.5 zoom auto focus (AF-D) lens.
In Winsford library.
Visited by members of the Libraries Taskforce.
Photo credit: Julia Chandler/Libraries Taskforce
Photo by Stephanie Hatch Leishman; 2014; Hayden Library
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The entrance to the old Moorestown Library, with the new library building which replaced it in June 2014 in the background.
The library at Highbanks Park. This is located in one of the Columbus, Ohio metro parks. I've been in this building many times and never noticed this view until today.
The Great Hall of the Library of Congress - Thomas Jefferson Building.
The Library of Congress is the de facto national library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and holds the largest number of books.[2][3] The head of the Library is the Librarian of Congress, currently James H. Billington.
The Library of Congress was established by Congress in 1800 with a budget of $5,000, and was housed in the United States Capitol for most of the 19th century. After much of the original collection had been destroyed during the War of 1812, Thomas Jefferson sold the library 6487 books, his entire personal library, in 1815 [4][5]. After a period of decline during the mid-19th century the Library of Congress began to grow rapidly in both size and importance after the American Civil War, culminating in the construction of a separate library building and the transference of all copyright deposit holdings to the Library. During the rapid expansion of the 20th century the Library of Congress assumed a preeminent public role, becoming a "library of last resort" and expanding its mission for the benefit of scholars and the American people.
Manchester Central Library is a circular library south of the Town Hall Extension in Manchester, England. It acts as the headquarters of the Manchester Library & Information Service, which also consists of 22 other community libraries.
Designed by E. Vincent Harris, the library was constructed between 1930 and 1934, but because of its traditional neoclassical architecture it is often mistakenly thought to be much older. At its opening one critic wrote "This is the sort of thing which persuades one to believe in the perennial applicability of the Classical canon". The form of the building, a columned portico attached to a rotunda domed structure, is loosely derived from the Pantheon, Rome.
The library building is grade II listed. In 2011, a three year project to renovate the library was started. Reconstruction will cost £170m and the library will be closed until 2014.
In 1968 it was recorded that the adult lending stock was 895,000, the adult reference stock 638,200, the junior stock 114,600, a total of nearly one and two thirds of a million volumes. There were about 2,000 reading places and an estimated 10,000 people visited the library each day. There were subscriptions to 3,000 periodicals.
La bibliothèque du parlement / The Library Of Parliament
The beauty of the Library of Parliament is reminiscent of an earlier age, echoing times and personalities long past. Overlooking the spectacular craggy bluffs of the Ottawa River, the Library has been admired by millions of visitors since it opened in 1876.
Modelled on the Reading Room of the British Museum, this distinctive circular structure features a ring of sixteen flying buttresses, pinnacles, decorative windows and beautiful ornamental ironwork. The Library building is crowned by a circular lantern.
The Library also plays a vital role in the overall look of Parliament Hill. While the Centre Block and the formal Parliamentary lawns represent an ordered landscape, the Library's design echoes the contour of the escarpment, and the building is set against the wilderness of the cliff.
The first Librarian of Parliament, Alpheus Todd, advised that this Gothic marvel be separated from the Centre Block by a corridor to protect it from fire. That advice helped save the Library from the disastrous fire that struck the Centre Block in 1916. As a result, we can continue to enjoy this architectural jewel.
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Barry Dickins is a Reservoir writer. He is presenting a workshop at the Reservoir library on writing about place and his childhood.
(c) Copyright 2018 by Neall Calvert. . . . Southwest corner of the Roderick and Ann Haig-Brown Library, Campbell River, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Roderick, the esteemed nature writer, seen at lower right, wrote twenty-three books on the life of rivers, on animals, conservation and family life (beginning with "Silver: Life Story of an Atlantic Salmon") in this room with its view of the Campbell River out the north window. [By permission of Haig-Brown House.] [See www.haig-brown.bc.ca/]
St Helens C of E Primary School
former Turkish Airlines now used as a school library in South Gloucestershire
Taken with a Nikon D90
All the pictures in this set where taken on the 11th May 2017 during the opening day of Storyhouse. Storyhouse is Chester’s brand new cultural centre: theatre, cinema, library, studio theatre, restaurant, and bar housed in a rejuvenated 1930s art deco Odeon cinema building.
For more information about StoryHouse see www.storyhouse.com
#FirstDayOfStoryhouse #ChesterCulture
Here are some recent (today) pictures of the Heart Center Astrological Library in Big Rapids. I posted a shot before, but these are better photos. The library has been in existence some twenty years or so and all of the books and periodicals have been indexed in a computer. We are in discussion with the Library of Congress and the University of Illinois to one day make this library part of their permanent collection.
There are two levels to the library. This photo is of the north wall on your left, looking toward the east wall. Above this level is another level of shelves. You can perhaps see a bit of that level at the top left.
Look at the door. Books have been painted on it.
More photos in my very active group of books: www.flickr.com/groups/72759907@N00/