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Today I broke one of my biggest rules, never study in a the library at my school. After searching around local bookstores for a cheap used copy and after checking out Barnes & Noble so I could read it there without paying for it, I had to go to my school's library to check out the book. I guess I didn't technically study in the library, but just the fact that I was there made me kind of sad. I had gone a little over a year and a half without going to the library for any additional academic reason other than class and today that came to an end. Well, it was a good record while it lasted.
But the real reason why I took this picture was because after I finally found the book I was looking for, I looked down the way and I felt like I was in The Shining. The library was making creepy noises, there was almost no one around, and basically, it was creepy.
Karma often joins me in the library on sunny mornings. I like to sip my tea while I admin my flickr groups or simply read a book. Karma naps, of course, and she tolerates the occasional sweet word or stroking. My other cat, Blue, likes to enter the library and explore it as if he has never been there before. If he has time he likes to snack on the spider plant and then vomit it back up on the white carpet.
The library was opened by the Queen in 1962, replacing the nearby former Carnegie Library of 1908. This view from the car park above The Arndale Centre was taken in 1984. The Co-op store in the background has long-gone, replaced by the Galaxy cinema complex, whilst I think that the Strathmore Hotel in the foreground closed late last year. Note the row of K8 telephone boxes down below.
Mamiya C220/80mm
Ilford FP4
Sharan & Martin were such an adorable couple to photograph
A really small intimate wedding - just 30 guests and a meal at the Cinnamon Kitchen, Contemporary Indian cuisine in the City.
See the full blog post here:
www.sharoncooper.co.uk/the-blog/entry/mayfair-library-lon...
This is my library and office area... That "desk" is really a dining room table that I fell in love with-
back to the secret library garden after i picked up my current "hold"....art of the spirit...by robert henri. this book was first published in 1930. i have 24 library books checked out. this is the second copy i have of this same book. i don't quite know how that happened but i must have thought it was a different book by him.
i need to learn NOT to check out so many books at one time.
i could not use the "self check out" on this one because it's so old...had to take it to the librarian...which would be fine except they always want to print out the entire list of the books i have out. i always say "please don't do that...it's embarrassing to see the thing keep printing and printing" ....
and they always laugh but tell me they WANT me to be use the library.
Books are on a continuous spiral on levels 6-9. Floor mats have corresponding Dewey Decimal numbers so you know where you are.
The library’s collection of Oversize Books is the last shelf of Circulating Books, immediately after the Zs. This area contains books too large for regular circulation shelving. Often these books contain pictures and photos. They are good resources for graphics and images.
Oversize Books use the same A to Z organization as the rest of the Circulating Book Collection.
If you still do not understand how the A to Z subject classification system works, ask a librarian to further explain the Library of Congress system to you.
Vera Caspary - The Weeping and the Laughter
Popular Library 373, 1951
Cover Artist: Willard Downes
"What strange desires drove this woman?"
iPhone Photo: At Falkland Palace, home of James V and his daughter, Mary I, Queen of Scots. Not great quality because of the angle towards the light, but you weren't allowed any further into the room - it was roped off at the door - and this is the longest my arm could reach and still take a straight-ish photo with ye olde iphone 3g :)
I love old-style study/libraries. The word "study" these days tends to just mean a desk and a computer, with maybe a few files/books/texts around. But here there are ceiling-high shelves of leatherbound books in a wonderful array of colours, and the room has a desk, chair and a comfy sofa covered in cushions and a fireplace that I imagine on a cold, windy Scottish winter evening would be the best thing about this cosy room. Lovely flickering golden light to read by as well.
And then of course, there's the secret door in the bookshelf - what decent castle is without one?? Unfortunately, as I said, visitors weren't allowed into the room itself, so the room on the other side remains undiscovered to all but the imagination.
Books and objects from travels: a perfect combination about knowledge.
More photos in my very active group of books: www.flickr.com/groups/72759907@N00/
Where i spend many mornings pricing and organizing used books for our Friends of the Bethlehem Library organization. It's a tight squeeze and the book carts help-we roll them out to a bigger room during our sales.
What an unbelievable place! Obviously in bad repair, but somebody could make this a showplace.
6 flashes: 3 Sunpak 383s in close CL and CR, full power, full height of light stands (almost 8 feet), ceiling bounce. (The wall behind me was all mirrors - no help there!) Another Sunpak upstairs just to the left of the top of the spiral staircase, wall bounced hard to the left to throw some light across that upper level, 1/4. 1 SB80 CL pointed directly at the far corner, about 1/16, another CL pointed at bottom left corner of image, about 1/64. Lots of level adjustments and some burn/overpaint of hotspots in post.
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Happy Birthday to me! I ordered some cupcakes for my birthday and Michelle from Clever Cupcakes (www.clevercupcakes.com) decorated them in a library theme!
Stack deck 29 -- Jefferson Building -- Library of Congress -- Holding area for books dealing with Belize.
The Richvale Library opened in 1983, replacing a smaller library on the same site. About 8,000 square feet in size it was designed by architect Philip Carter to blend into the community around it.
It's a particulary airy space, like a living room that just happens to provide you with a great collection of books, CD's, videos, and magazines, as well as comfortable spaces to sit and read, with a friendly and knowledgeable staff to help you find what you want. Programs and storytime sessions for children are run throughout the year.
40 Pearson Avenue, Richmond Hill L4C 6T7
(West of Yonge Street, South of Carville Road)
Telephone: 905.889.2847
This is a little old university library along the Rua da Escola Politécnica. I just popped in and took pictures. Looks beautiful, well maintained.
I took this picure in the UIUC undergraduate library. Luckily, the book I was looking for was still on a shelf, so I didn't have to navigate the piles.
Books filed according to an AGS Classification scheme based on Geography. They return classed using the LC system which is topical first, then geographical. Notice the books are shelved end to end on each shelf.
This now takes over as my favourite house photographed so far....that is, the house I'd buy :)
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Far bedroom bounced off one of the walls.
That middle space was all ambient and was windowed on both side so was really bright.
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Bounced off ceiling above camera then a second exposure with the flash bounced off ceiling at the other end of this room and hand blended in to give some nice shadows etc.
I'm not 100% happy with the ceiling, I tried using a ambient frame but it just looked wrong...
The final days of Plymouth's Central Library in the layout it's had for the past few years.
The Lending Library is much as it was when it opened in 1956.
The Reference Library has already been transformed into the History Room, but the banks of PCs will move.
The Scott Room, former Scott Lecture Theatre, will become the Scott Computer Room with most computers located there.
The former Local and Naval Studies Library will complete its transformation into the Quiet Room - a haven of peace in a busy city centre and already much appreciated by users.
The Music and Drama Library, in its present location for the past ten years, will move into the main body of the ground floor and its place will be taken by the Fiction collection.
Even the Children's Library will see some changes with a new entrance door.
At the same time, the library converts to self-service and the obsolete 3M security system is replaced by something that actually works.