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Cincinnati, OH. May 24, 2020. Shot on a Nikon F6 and Kodak Portra 160. Developed and scanned by The Darkroom.
A special library serving both the research needs of scientific communities and a general public looking for information and entertainment.
The library is very warm and comfortable....though my preference is scrolls over books. Time moves forward and who am I to stop it?
My third version of this, one of Manchester's finest and best-loved buildings.
The library was opened in 1934 by King George V.......
"The royals were whisked off to the second floor where there was a Reception Room and private apartments usually used by the Chairman of Committee. As there was no plumbing on that side of the building two Elsans [toilets] had been provided for royal use. The King drank a welcome whisky and soda and the Queen a cup of tea from a newly-purchased tea-service that later went into the Town Hall china closets." (Hilda McGill, former member of staff)
44X65cm Mixed Media on Paper
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Children's Library, showing the 'magical apple tree' and its bespoke circular seating with integrated book storage.
Manchester Central Library is the headquarters of the city's library and information service in Manchester, England. Facing St Peter's Square, it was designed by E. Vincent Harris and constructed between 1930 and 1934. 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. A four-year project to renovate and refurbish the library commenced in 2010. Central Library re-opened on 22 March 2014.
umm, looking for other photos for work-related reasons, but this reminds me of those brilliant "tilt-shift" photography photos come across recently via boingboing.com. but, this is just a real scene taken from the top level of the state library of victoria.
Running out of new photography due to the lockdown and looking back to some older images - in this case the Library of Birmingham in January 2014
Little Free Library. There are hundreds of these little library boxes across the country and around the world. This one is in Durham, we found it while out strolling through the streets taking photos together.
Visited by a member of the Libraries Taskforce team.
Photo credit: Julia Chandler/Libraries Taskforce
The excellent central library in Portsmouth, a triumph of Brutalist Modernism, the original finishes inside were amazing
One of the few quiet spaces in the library - lots of activities everywhere else for Fun Palaces weekend.
Westcliff is Grade II listed - I think those unusual windows and the 'central 6 bay ridge and furrow clerestorey' as described in the listing, might have something to do with it.
First of Four Little Free Libraries that I found on this morning's drive around a few back country roads.
Monroe, Oregon
OM System OM-5
Olympus 12-50mm
[[Edit: I'm seeing this picture getting hits from people searching for "Helsinki library". This IS a library in Helsinki, but it's not Oodi, the new Central Library, which is this one.]]
Vuosaari is a suburb of Greater Helsinki, albeit quite a big one, so I wasn't expecting much. It's a really nice place though, with a cracking public library.
There were plenty of books (all too often absent these days), a great children's section, computers and internet access, DVD and Bluray for loan, and the thing that really caught my eye was a Roland CAMM-1 vinyl cutter. Not the sort of thing one normally finds in a branch library!
Street Art Light Projection in Adelaide next to the State Library Entrance displaying old Festival Fringe Posters.
Boxes of a street open library appeared on boulevard trees. Free of charge books offer each and every passer by a unique opportunity not only to grab a book, but to follow it;s destiny as well. Most of the books are marked as books-crossing, some lack any signs of a previous owner. Anyway this fun way to find a new reading seems to be a new joy.