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One of a series of photographs taken by Elizabeth Mitchell during the move of the Belleville Public Library from the Corby Library site at 223 Pinnacle Street to the new building at 254 Pinnacle on 8 May 2006.
Donated by Elizabeth Mitchell to the Hastings County Historical Society in May 2006.
The Ohio County Public Library under construction, Hempfield Yard site, looking southwest toward Center Wheeling, circa 1972.
The Wheeling Warehouse & Storage Company building on the left hand side in the background is now the Education Center for West Virginia Northern Community College. To the right, a tower for the old B&O Viaduct still stands and behind it, the Bus Terminal sign can be still be seen. Across the Chapline Street Bridge, the old Wheeling High School building is still standing as well.
- from the collections of the Ohio County Public Library Archives
▶ Learn more about the history of the Ohio County Public Library
▶ Visit the Library's Wheeling History website
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An all-new interactive Digital Library from Vodafone and the British Library, giving the public free access to Shakespeare’s iconic classics through scanning QR codes on the spines of virtual books.
On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Vodafone and the British Library have made some of the earliest and rarest editions of Shakespeare’s plays available to all, allowing people to innovatively download the Bard’s most popular works from specially-designed wallpaper featuring virtual library bookshelves. The pop-up Digital Library will provide new access to free digital copies of the quartos by allowing people to simply scan the QR codes printed on the virtual books as the ‘Digital Library’ tours the UK from Edinburgh to Penzance from April 25th – 30th.
The main public library in Pittsburgh. It was built in 1895, and was one of the first libraries built by Andrew Carnegie. Note lthe inscription over the columns. It is part of a museum complex in the Oakland district, near the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. This photo was taken in 1967. Recent photos show that the exterior of the buiding has been cleaned since then, and is much lighter in color.
Andrew Carnegie (1833-1919) was born in Scotland, and came to the United States with his family at the age of 13. He made a vast fortune in the steel industry, and gave most of it away in the last 30 years of his life. Public libraries may have been his best known philanthropy. He built over 2,500 libraries, 1,700 in the U.S. and most of the rest in Britain, Ireland, and Canada. A city that applied for a Carnegie Library had to meet certain requirements, including providing a site, providing a given sum each year for books and maintenance, free access, and open stacks.
A few shots of the basement of Birmingham Central Library, specifically the photo archives. Nikon crapped out so these are taken with my phone.
Leeds Library. The main staircase makes much use of marble, mosaics and stained-glass, with carved dogs in several places on the balustrade. The Library was designed by George Corson and was constructed between 1878-84. It is grade 2* listed.
City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England - Leeds Library, Calverley Street / Victoria Gardens
June 2024
Her own little library. We are having the weirdest winter. Snow one day, 62 the next. The kids are happy to be outdoors either way.
Library of Celsus, Ephesus. Notice the hybrid Roman capital on an unfluted column, combining the Greek Ionian and Corinthian styles: Rome proclaims itself a new world order that surpasses all that was ancient Greece.
An all-new interactive Digital Library from Vodafone and the British Library, giving the public free access to Shakespeare’s iconic classics through scanning QR codes on the spines of virtual books.
On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Vodafone and the British Library have made some of the earliest and rarest editions of Shakespeare’s plays available to all, allowing people to innovatively download the Bard’s most popular works from specially-designed wallpaper featuring virtual library bookshelves. The pop-up Digital Library will provide new access to free digital copies of the quartos by allowing people to simply scan the QR codes printed on the virtual books as the ‘Digital Library’ tours the UK from Edinburgh to Penzance from April 25th – 30th.
Shields Library, UC Davis. I have wanted to draw a curvilinear perspective sketch for a while and this very flat roofed but interesting building, which I've never managed tio get a good angle of to sketch, was the perfect choice at lunchtime. I had a lot of fun with this one! I've made it look a bit like a baseball stadium.
At Hughenden, the home of Benjamin Disraeli, who was the favourite Prime Minister of Queen Victoria.
The BCCLS office celebrates our 75 member libraries' 35 years of outstanding service to their communities
LocHal Public Library
Tilburg, Netherlands
Discipline
Interior
Typology
Library, Adaptive/Reuse, Office/Research, Government/Civic
Size: 7,000 m2
Status: Completed
Project Design: 2016 - 2018
Project Realisation: 2018
Address: Burgemeester Brokxlaan 66 5041 RP Tilburg
Client: Midden-Brabant Library and Kunstloc Brabant
Design Team: CIVIC Architects, architectural design; Braaksma & Roos Architectenbureau, restoration; Inside Outside in collaboration with the TextielMuseum, interior concept and textiles; Mecanoo, interior design library, labs and offices.
Programme: Mecanoo was responsible for the interior design of the Bibliotheek Midden-Brabant (including the various ‘laboratories’), Kunstloc Brabant and Brabant C in a former locomotive hall of the Dutch National Railways. The interior design comprises 7,000 m2 including 1,300 m2 of offices.
Awards: THE PLAN Award, Interior category, 2019; BNA Building of the Year’19, Liveability & Social Cohesion and the Public Vote Award, 2019; Dutch Design Awards, Habitat category, 2019; NRP Gulden Feniks Award, Category S, 2019; AZ Awards, Adaptive Re-Use, Award of Merit, 2019; Dezeen Awards, Rebirth project of the year, 2019; World Interiors News Awards (WIN Awards), Gold Winner, Learning category, 2019; INSIDE - World Festival of Interiors Award, Creative Re-use category, 2019; Beste Bibliotheek van Nederland 2020 Award; Herengracht Industrie Prijs 2021; shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2022.
Photography: Ossip Architectuurfotografie.
The LocHal is a new, world-class urban living room for Tilburg in an iconic former locomotive shed of the Dutch National Railways. It is located next to the station, in the heart of Tilburg’s new City Campus, and houses the Midden-Brabant Library, the cultural institutions Kunstloc and Brabant C and the co-working spaces of Seats2meet. The LocHal is a space for both young and old to read, learn, study, meet and gather. It is a place for testing, creating, exhibiting and presenting the latest innovations.
Mecanoo’s playful and innovative interior design forms striking contrasts by combining characteristic historical elements with new oak and steel additions. A colour palette of reds and oranges contributes to a warm atmosphere. There is a diversity of settings for meeting, collaboration, and concentrated work.
The eye-catcher is the city café featuring a bar with red, brown and gold ceramic tiles, crowned with a neon LocHal logo. Old tracks remain visible in the concrete floor, and are used to move three large wheeled “train” tables. A single table can become the extension of the bar or, when combined with another table, forms a stage with the stairs as a tribune. They can also be moved outside to form a stage for outdoor events. Full-height textile walls, designed by Inside Outside and the Textile Museum, soften the industrial hall. They conveniently divide the space into larger or smaller activity areas.Crossing the building is an interior street lined with historic industrial columns on which the old layers of paint are still visible. By fitting the columns with wooden tables and lighting, they are given a new lease of life as places for reading and studying. The street is flanked by bookcases and more inviting bookshop-style display units.
The nearby fairytale theme park Efteling is the source of inspiration for the children's library. Bookcases take on the form of coloured pencils or rulers. Children can walk through giant fairytale books, read at tables shaped like mobile phones or listen to storytelling sessions while lying on an open book. Even the sitting poufs have playful letters in the form of fairytale animals.
Braaksma & Roos and CIVIC architects carried out the architectural design and renovation. The stair landscape that Civic designed for the monumental LocHal takes you to the upper floors. With the flexible oak seating elements, everyone can ‘build’ their own meeting place or quiet working niche. The LocHal is not only a library but also a laboratory where visitors are challenged, gain new knowledge and learn about new innovations. Specially designed labs can be found throughout the building: the Digilab, GameLab, FutureLab, FoodLab, KennisMakerij (LearningLab), TijdLab (TimeLab), Stemmingmakerij (DialogueLab), WoordLab (WordLab) and workshop rooms.
Shooting at night with no lighting really freaked me out! I was worried I would get only blurry results, but this 50mm/1.4 really takes in the available light well! I might try some more night shots...
This tiny library has served our small town well for over 130 years and is still used frequently for books, videos, and other media.
A brief history of the building is available on the town website.
On the 31st March 2017 the library in Chester closed its doors for the last time after 33 years of service. Library services are being relocated into the new Storyhouse building which opens to the public on the 11th May 2017. These pictures where taken during the last hour before the closing bell was rung and the front door locked.
The front facade of the library building is listed and so will be retained in the new northgate development which is expected 2019.
For more information and a recent blog post with interviews see:
thechesterblog.com/2017/03/29/end-of-an-era-at-chester-li...
For more information about Storyhouse see:
For more information about the Northgate development see:
For a statement from Cheshire West and Chester see:
www.yourwestcheshire.co.uk/NewsArticle/%7B4B243062-1391-4...