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The writer Ethel Turner lived here for a while. In the house, not the library.
Where I check the shelves every week and find too many bargains. I've added a small amount of paint effect in my iPad iPhoto because this is one of my favorite, friendly places, which feels much more inviting to me than the somewhat ho-hum surface details suggest. By the way, the white spots on the bottoms of the spines are the price stickers, most of them one to three dollars.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States. Founded after the American Revolution as the seat of government of the newly independent country, Washington was named after George Washington, first President of the United States and Founding Father. As the seat of the United States federal government and several international organizations, Washington is an important world political capital. The city is also one of the most visited cities in the world, with more than 20 million tourists annually.
The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast. The U.S. Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress, and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria. The City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia; in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District.
Washington had an estimated population of 702,455 as of July 2018, making it the 20th most populous city in the United States. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's daytime population to more than one million during the workweek. Washington's metropolitan area, the country's sixth largest, had a 2017 estimated population of 6.2 million residents.
All three branches of the U.S. federal government are centered in the District: Congress (legislative), president (executive), and the U.S. Supreme Court (judicial). Washington is home to many national monuments, and museums, primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 177 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of many international organizations, trade unions, non-profit, lobbying groups, and professional associations, including the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization of American States, AARP, the National Geographic Society, the Human Rights Campaign, the International Finance Corporation, and the American Red Cross.
A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973. However, Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D.C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, but the District has no representation in the Senate. The District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. The Library is housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.; it also maintains the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia. The Library's functions are overseen by the Librarian of Congress, and its buildings are maintained by the Architect of the Capitol. The Encyclopedia Britannica describes the Library of Congress as the largest library in the world, and the library describes itself as such. Its "collections are universal, not limited by subject, format, or national boundary, and include research materials from all parts of the world and in more than 450 languages."
The Library of Congress moved to Washington in 1800 after sitting for 11 years in the temporary national capitals in New York City and Philadelphia. The small Congressional Library was housed in the United States Capitol for most of the 19th century until the early 1890s. Most of the original collection had been destroyed by the British in 1814 during the War of 1812, and the library sought to restore its collection in 1815. They bought Thomas Jefferson's entire personal collection of 6,487 books. After a period of slow growth, another fire struck the Library in its Capitol chambers in 1851, again destroying a large amount of the collection, including many of Jefferson's books. After the American Civil War, the Library of Congress grew rapidly in both size and importance, which sparked a campaign to purchase replacement copies for volumes that had been burned. The Library received the right of transference of all copyrighted works to deposit two copies of books, maps, illustrations, and diagrams printed in the United States. It also began to build its collections, and its development culminated between 1888 and 1894 with the construction of a separate, extensive library building across the street from the Capitol.
The Library's primary mission is to research inquiries made by members of Congress, carried out through the Congressional Research Service. The Library is open to the public, although only high-ranking government officials and Library employees may check out books and materials.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_Building
The oldest of the four United States Library of Congress buildings, the Thomas Jefferson Building was built between 1890 and 1897. It was originally known as the Library of Congress Building and is located on First Street SE, between Independence Avenue and East Capitol Street in Washington, D.C. The Beaux-Arts style building is known for its classicizing facade and elaborately decorated interior. Its design and construction has a tortuous history; the building's main architect was Paul J. Pelz, initially in partnership with John L. Smithmeyer, and succeeded by Edward Pearce Casey during the last few years of construction. The building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.
I went to Ikea today to buy yet another Billy bookcase. After the initial reorganization, I thought I would take a photo and share this with you all. This is only a part of our library (1/3? 1/4?), but I thought it would be interesting to show you what my academic books are, grouped by subject. This doesn't include most of my history books (my undergrad major) or theology (another interest) or the very many fiction and nonfiction books we have scattered around the house.
Run by volunteers (Friends of Jesmond Library - a limited company and registered charity) since 2013.
This library is a listed building, designed by Harry Faulkner Brown of Williamson, Faulkner, Brown and Partners - the same which designed Hebburn Central, and The Word, South Shields. historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1323708
Photo credit: Julia Chandler/Libraries Taskforce
Public Library, Southborough, MA. Restocking the shelves in the children's room after the July flood.
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx (who else?)
View of the library at Trinity College (now Duke University), Durham, N.C.
Digital Collection:
North Carolina Postcards
Date:
1912
Location:
Durham (N.C.); Durham County (N.C.);
Collection in Repository
North Carolina Postcard Collection (P052), North Carolina Collection Photographic
Archives, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
A solid square block outside, it was a lovely surprise to find this decorated vaulted ceiling inside.
Merle Miller - That Winter
Popular Library 210, 1950
Cover Artist: unknown... Reminds me of Belarski or Bergey
"Night after night they sought love."
The Lorette Wilmot Library opened in 1957, and its second-floor stacks are surely well known to any serious Nazareth scholar. But how many students have followed the stacks all the way to the south end, where an elderly restroom waits behind an unmarked door?
I've been working on photos from Open House Melbourne over the weekend and got to the Law Library at the Supreme Court of Victoria and had to share this one, heavy processing on this one and dropped the saturation to give it an older look!
ISO 400 | 1/13 sec | f/3.5 | 7mm