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A pal of mine who's building a library asked me if I used the same heights for all the shelves in mine, so I took this pic of a small segment of the place to show him. This is the area by my workdesk (hence the monitor below).
My parents moved their "library" downstairs, where there is more room and actual sunlight. Right now there are still a few gaps, but those will close with time, I'm sure.
The Harold Washington Library, located in Chicago, is a striking example of postmodernism. The library was completed in 1991, and the LEGO version uses 407 pieces.
The Library of Birmingham is a public library in Birmingham, England. It is situated on the west side of the city centre at Centenary Square, beside the Birmingham Rep (to which it connects, and with which it shares some facilities) and Baskerville House. Upon opening on 3 September 2013, it replaced Birmingham Central Library. The library, which is estimated to have cost £188.8 million, is viewed by the Birmingham City Council as a flagship project for the city's redevelopment. It has been described as the largest public library in the United Kingdom, the largest public cultural space in Europe, and the largest regional library in Europe.
2,414,860 million visitors came to the library in 2014 making it the 10th most popular visitor attraction in the UK.
Birmingham City Council looked into relocating the library for many years. The original plan was to build a new library in the emerging Eastside district, which had been opened up to the city centre following the demolition of Masshouse Circus. A library was designed by Richard Rogers on a site in the area. However, for financial reasons and reservations about the location this plan was shelved. The Council suggested that the Library be split between a new building built between the Rep Theatre and Baskerville House at Centenary Square, which until 2009 was a public car park (to house the main lending library) and a building at Millennium Point in "Eastside" (to house the archives and special collections).
In August 2006, the Council confirmed the area between the Rep Theatre and Baskerville House as the future site for the library. Capita Symonds had been appointed as Project Managers for the Library of Birmingham. The council's intention was to create a "world class" landmark civic building in Centenary Square. Not long after this, the two-sites idea was scrapped and the archives and special collections will move to the site at Centenary Square.
After an international design competition, run by the Royal Institute of British Architects, a shortlist of seven architects was announced on 27 March 2008. They were chosen from a list of over 100 architects. The architects chosen were: Foreign Office Architects, Foster and Partners, Hopkins Architects, Mecanoo, OMA, Schmidt hammer lassen and Wilkinson Eyre.
In early August 2008, Mecanoo and multi-discipline engineers, Buro Happold, were announced as the winner of the design competition. More detailed plans for the library were revealed by the council in conjunction with the architects at a launch event held on 2 April 2009.
The previous Central Library failed for the second time to gain status as a listed building. Work was scheduled to begin on demolishing the old library early in 2015 to make way for the redevelopment of Paradise Circus.
Collections
The library has nationally and internationally significant collections, including the Boulton and Watt archives, the Bournville Village Trust Archive, the Charles Parker Archive, the Parker collection of children's books, the Wingate Bett transport ticket collection, the Railway and Canal Historical Society Library; and the photographic archives of the Warwickshire photographic survey, Sir Benjamin Stone, John Blakemore and Val Williams; and is in the process[when?] of acquiring that of Daniel Meadows.
Shakespeare Memorial Room
The specialist Shakespeare Memorial Room was designed in 1882 by John Henry Chamberlain for the first Central Library. When the old building was demolished in 1974 Chamberlain's room was dismantled and later fitted into the new concrete shell of the new library complex. When the Library of Birmingham was built, it was again moved, to the top floor. It houses Britain’s most important Shakespeare collection, and one of the two most important Shakespeare collections in the world; the other being held by the Folger Shakespeare Library. The collection contains 43,000 books including rare items such as a copy of the First Folio 1623; copies of the four earliest Folio editions; over 70 editions of separate plays printed before 1709 including three "Pavier" quartos published in 1619 but falsely dated. There are significant collections from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, a near complete collection of Collected Works, significant numbers of adaptations, anthologies and individual editions.
The Boulton and Watt Collection is the archive of the steam engine partnership of Matthew Boulton and James Watt, dating from its formation in 1774 until the firm's closure in the 1890s. The archive comprises about 550 volumes of letters, books, order books and account books, approximately 29,000 engine drawings and upwards of 20,000 letters received from customers. Boulton and Watt manufactured the screw engines for Brunel's SS Great Eastern and the archive includes a portfolio of 13 albumen prints by Robert Howlett documenting the construction of the Great Eastern, including a rare variant of the Brunel portrait of 1857.
Also displayed in the Library are two large coade stone medallions, made in the 1770s and removed from the front of the city's Theatre Royal when it was demolished in 1956. These depict David Garrick and William Shakespeare.
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The Library of Congress is a very hard thing to photograph with my gear. But I did get this one shot that I really like.
A somewhat faded view of the Library of Congress Jefferson Building, shortly after it was completed, as seen from the Capitol.
After converting the old library/office into a family/game room, the new library now resides at one end of the great room, with the study just around the corner.
Such a beautful furniture!
More photos in my very active group of books: www.flickr.com/groups/72759907@N00/
First stop on our tour of libraries in North Kent's Gravesend/Gravesham area. There is a lovely courtyard garden outside Higham library, and evidence of skilled craftspeople in the area, with a couple of beautifully worked wall hangings.
Every so often we change what's in this bookcase (at the Amity Library where I work) and a few months ago I made this display of some of our prettier old books. These are no longer in circulation but can be read at the library. There are hundreds more stacked on top of the shelves... waiting for god knows what to happen. We talk about selling them but none of us want the hassle! And I want to keep them around; they're fascinating and some have gorgeous illustrations and engravings.
Another one from my library. I made this one a tiny bit over the top to give it the cool look and feel.
Hope you like it :-)
Set BSSR House
Another try of getting a more interesting view of the walls of the library. This one worked out fairly well I think.
Library of Parliament
Centre Block, Parliament Hill
Ottawa, Canada
The Library of Parliament is the main information repository and research resource for the Parliament of Canada. The main branch of the library sits at the rear of the Centre Block, on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, Ontario, and is the last untouched part of that larger building's original incarnation, after it burned down in 1916. The library has been augmented and renovated a number of times since its construction in 1876, the last between 2002 and 2006, though the form and decor remain essentially authentic. The building today serves as a Canadian icon, and appears on the obverse of the Canadian ten-dollar bill.
The library's collection comprises 600,000 items, covering hundreds of years of history, and tended by a staff of 300. The main reading room rises to a vaulted ceiling, and the walls and stacks are lined with white pine panelling carved into a variety of textures, flowers, masks, and mythical creatures. In the galleries are displayed the coats of arms of the seven provinces that existed in 1876, as well as that of the Dominion of Canada, and standing directly in the centre of the room is a white marble statue of Queen Victoria, sculpted by Marchall Wood in 1871.
-Wikipedia
Had the chance to use a meeting room at the local library. Very nice space, warm inviting, wireless access :-). While one level is traditional "library", the lower level is set up as collaborative spaces, technology access and active and engaged (my pics for that area did not convey the feeling). The young adult section is set up traditionally. Wonder what that means?
This was the shot I intended to use: www.flickr.com/photos/konarheim/8358756577/in/photostream/ because of the sight line and vanishing points - but this one drew my attention to the shelf on the end with the sunlight. Hard to pick just one when nothing "wow" results.
of the many reasons why i love living where i do, one is discovering a neighbor brought over a stack of favorite books she read to her children when they were odin's age just 'cause it's the neighborly thing to do.
and the best part is that they all look like really good reads.
My internet was down all weekend and I had concepts due for shoots, so I researched the old fashioned way.