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Title: University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus: Jose M. Lazaro General Library
Other title: University of Puerto Rico General Library; Lazaro Library; Jose M. Lazaro Biblioteca
Creator: Klumb, Henry, 1905-1984
Creator role: Architect
Date: 1948
Current location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Description of work: Klumb worked between 1946 and 1966 as the university's only architect. The Rio Piedras and Mayaguez campuses of the University of Puerto Rico allowed Klumb to explore the possibilities of a social architecture adapted to the conditions of Puerto Rico. He set the standards and guidelines for architecture of open and flowing spaces. He also developed several architectural strategies to tone down natural light with the use of various designs for brise-soleils which provided light and shadow. He preferred to design his buildings to take advantage of the prevailing trade winds of the island. Klumb's buildings are all organized around open, democratic spaces accessible to all. (Source: Vivoni-Farage, Enrique. "Modern Puerto Rico and Henry Klumb." The Modernism Magazine, vol. 9, issue 33 2005 28-37.)
Description of view: View of the southwest corner of the library.
Work type: Architecture and Landscape
Style of work: Modern
Culture: Puerto Rican
Materials/Techniques: Concrete
Trees
Source: Pisciotta, Henry (copyright Henry Pisciotta)
Date photographed: May 14, 2008
Resource type: Image
File format: JPEG
Image size: 2304H X 3072W pixels
Permitted uses: This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. Other uses are not permitted. For additional details see: alias.libraries.psu.edu/vius/copyright/publicrightsarch.htm
Collection: Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename: WB2010-0397 Biblioteca.JPG
Record ID: WB2010-0397
Sub collection: libraries
Copyright holder: Copyright Henry Pisciotta
Digitised image from the Town Hall Photographer's Collection - GB127.M850
The Town Hall Photographer’s Collection is a large photographic collection held in Manchester City Council’s Central Library archives, ranging in date from 1956 to 2007.
The collection consists of tens of thousands of images, covering the varied areas of work of Manchester Corporation and latterly, Manchester City Council.
The photographs were taken by staff photographers, who were tasked to document the work of Corporation/Council departments and, in doing so, captured many aspects of Manchester life and history, including significant changes to the Manchester landscape.
The collection includes many different formats from glass negatives, to slides, prints, CDs and even a couple of cine films.
What is especially exciting is that the majority of these images have never before been available in a digital format and therefore have only ever been seen by a handful of people.
A team of dedicated Staff and Volunteers are currently working on the systematic digitisation of the negatives held within the collection.
This album represents the result of their work to date.
My first attempt at putting digital information out into the physical library. Many students go straight to the shelves when they want information. By putting a touchscreen where the books are I hope that they might discover all that is available in digital format as well. The screen shows an article on the subject that is on this shelf, the Falklands war of 1982. I have set up a netvibes page with preconfigured searches in RSS and some useful pages on the subject. By touching the screen the students can access articles and webpages directly.
There is a printer at the end of the bookshelf so they can print out anything interesting they find.
The 1930's Co-op Emporium and Ballroom was converted to a library and opened by Harold Wilson in 1975. Concrete V-shaped mullions were added to the full height of the building but the bas-reliief decorations above the windows were retained.
The craft for the week for both the Tween and the Young Adults was decorating beach towels. The kids brought their own towels and then got to do whatever they wanted to decorate them!
Impossible to get a good shot from inside the library - Billy Bookcases from Ikea in a "W" config.so there are two aisles in my too small library. You can kinda see the middle aisle over the mannequin's head - two Billy Bookcases back to back and In front of them are two short Billy Bookcases back to back (the round photo of my g. g. grandparents is sitting on top if those two bookcases)
Readers in a popular bookshop and library in Damascus.
Credit : ILO/Apex Image
Date : 2010/10
Country : Syrian Arab Republic
Title: Ghent University Library
Other title: Universiteitsbibliotheek Universiteit Gent;Boekentoren
Creator: Velde, Henry Van de, 1863-1957
Creator role: Architect
Date: 1933-1939
Current location: Ghent, East Flanders, Flanders, Belgium
Description of work: The Ghent University Library's Book Tower (De Universiteitsbibliotheek Universiteit Gent Boekentoren) was designed in "the shape of a Greek cross, not as a religious symbol but rather to connect heaven and earth and to merge time and space." The Book Tower is 64 meters high, with 4 stories below ground and 20 stories above. The use of concrete as a building material was an innovation at the time and a demonstration of Van de Velde's use of modernity as a style. As a true modernist Van de Velde designed almost all of the details of the building, including furniture, window frames, floor patterns, doorknobs, radiator covers, and much more. Due to the outbreak of World War II certain materials had to be replaced, such as marble instead of rubber or linoleum for the floors, and the furniture was only partially produced The book tower housed the library's collection of approximately 3 million books until recent renovations relocated them to an underground repository. The building was designated a protected monument in July 1992. De Boekentoren University Library of Gt, www.boekentoren.be, Accessed 3/23/2015
Description of view: view from inside the belvedere with wood paneled columns and windows
Work type: Architecture and Landscape
Style of work: Modern
Culture: Belgian
Materials/Techniques: Wood
Glass
Metal
Source: Pisciotta, Henry (copyright Henry Pisciotta)
Date photographed: June 2009
Resource type: Image
File format: JPEG
Image size: 3072H X 2304W pixels
Permitted uses: This image is posted publicly for non-profit uses, excluding printed publication. Other uses are not permitted. alias.libraries.psu.edu/vius/copyright/publicrightsarch.htm
Collection: Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename: WB2015-0011 Boekentoren.jpg
Record ID: WB2015-0011
Sub collection: libraries
Copyright holder: Copyright Henry Pisciotta
The entrance to the The Rose & Robert Skillman Branch Library in downtown Detroit. Originally the library was simply named the Downtown Library.
An image of Guildhall Library's main reading room. We are a public reference library specialising in the history of London. We offer books, pamphlets and periodicals from the 15th to the 21st centuries on all aspects of life in London, past and present, and on national, local and social history.
Collections include: London history - the largest library collection in the world devoted to the history of a single city; Historic trade and telephone directories and poll books covering London and the UK; British local and family history ; Lloyd’s marine collection; Business history; Food and wine history; Electronic and online resources. In addition Lloyd’s marine, livery company and London Stock Exchange manuscript collections are held at the library.
Our collections are available to all – no appointment or membership is necessary. We are open Monday -Saturday, 9.30 am - 5.00 pm (except for bank holidays and the Saturday of a bank holiday weekend).
You will find information about visiting Guildhall Library and further details of our collections, including our online catalogue, on our website: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/guildhalllibrary.
Our cousins have a wonderful home in the local mountains where we enjoy staying. They travel quite a bit and are very generous , the door is always open.
This is actually one of two Christmas trees in my workplace at the moment, but it will be collected tomorrow to be part of a Christmas tree festival in the local church. The tree itself was kindly lent by my boss's mum, and the star on top and the clear plastic balls came with it, and would light up if we had anywhere to connect it to mains electricity. Instead, I've added a string of white battery-operated fairy lights. The tinsel and the rest of the decorations were all either made or chosen by me, some of them left over from our collection at home (all the straw ones are from a set that belonged to my parents). It was fun to decorate this in a very different style from the one at home, using mainly white and silver, whereas we have lots of colours at home but probably more red than anything else.
Minerva of Peaceby Elihu Vedder
Pictured on this mosaic in the arched panel is the Roman Goddess Minerva--guardian of civilization. She is portrayed as the Minerva of Peace, but according to the artist who created her, Elihu Vedder, the peace and prosperity that she enjoys was attained only through warfare. A little statue of Nike, a representation of Victory, similar to those erected by ancient Greeks to commemorate their success in battle, stands next to Minerva. The figure is a winged female standing on a globe and holding out a laurel wreath (victory) and palm branch (peace) to the victors.
Shield and Helmet: Although Minerva's shield and helmet have been laid upon the ground, the goddess still holds a long, two-headed spear, showing that she never relaxes her vigilance against the enemies of the country that she protects.
Scroll: Her attention is directed to an unfolded scroll that she holds in her left hand. On this is written a list of various fields of learning, such as Architecture, Law, Statistics, Sociology, Botany, Biography, Mechanics, Philosophy, Zoology, etc. Minerva is therefore also the Goddess of Learning, an activity that can thrive in a peaceful society.
Owl: On Minerva's right is an owl, symbolizing wisdom, perched upon the post of a low parapet.
Inscription: Beneath the mosaic is an inscription from Horace's Ars Poetica: Nil invita Minerva, quae monumentum aere perennius exegit, and translated as, Not unwilling, Minerva raises a monument more lasting than bronze
Date: 2000
Category: Library
Type: Image
Identifier: LP2416
Source: South Pasadena Public Library
Owner: South Pasadena Public Library
Previous Identifier: N/A
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At least it is in chalk. But with all the noise complaints we get, shouldn't the "library sleepers" be much less annoying than the "library cell phone talkers"? Maybe they are snoring. Or worse. Hmmm....
Passage in the Westmount Public Library - Passage dans la Bibliothèque de Westmount
- Westmount Public Library
- Bibliothèque de Westmount
- Westmount, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- April 16, 2009 / Le 16 avril, 2009