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The performers from A. A. Gymnastics visited the library and put on a demonstration for the kids with exciting leaps, flips and tumbles.
Teen Scene boasts an extensive collection of graphic novels, which are a big attraction for readers of all ages.
The Library Company of Philadelphia (LCP) is a non-profit organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded by Benjamin Franklin as a library, the Library Company of Philadelphia has accumulated one of the most significant collections of historically valuable manuscripts and printed material in the United States.
The current collection size is about 500,000 books and 70,000 other items, including 2,150 items that once belonged to Franklin, the Mayflower Compact, major collections of 17th century and Revolution-era pamphlets and ephemera, maps, and whole libraries assembled in the 18th and 19th centuries.
On days off, in other cities, I like to go to the library. I'm not well.
Booneslick Regional Library
219 West 3rd Street
Sedalia, Missouri
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Knitted chenille black cape for my daughter in law. it is a Lion Brand patterns and is called the Library Capelet.
Week #2
Theme: My home town
Witham doesn't really feel like my home town as I haven't lived here very long and don't see myself staying here forever. So it's a temporary home town. Quite a pleasant Georgian market town which used to be a stopping point on the route to London. Now, sadly it is just another commuter town where many of the shops and local businesses have closed down. The only shops that seem to be thriving are the numerous charity shops. Most people go to the larger towns, Chelmsford or Colchester, to go shopping for clothes, etc. Thankfully there is a library though, seen here in this picture. Despite some libraries disappearing since the cuts, this one remains. I often go in there on a Saturday and read the local papers and borrow books and DVDS. It is also a place to get local information. So, a very important place, just hope it survives, at least as long as I'm living here.
Berkeley Public Library, Berkeley, California
The library was built between 1931 and 1934 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is also a Berkeley Landmark.
Learn more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Public_Library
Yesterday evening, many members of the Friendswood library community gathered to hear Dr. Ted Estess, founding Dean of the honors college at the University of Houston, read stories from his fine book The Cream Pitcher: Mississippi Stories. These stories reflect upon the lives of the Estess family in the region of the Cream Pitcher of the Mississippi, or Walthall County, Tylertown, Mississippi. Dr. Estess read stories The Cream, Clabber, and Whey of Everything, Making Arrangements, along with other wonderful family stories. One audience member commented that these stories felt just like her own family stories, and that Dr. Estess really knew how to express them in a meaningful way. Dr. Ted Estess is also a scholar on the works of nobel laureate and author of Night, Elie Wiesel. The Friendswood Public Library hopes to have him back to share his knowledge on Elie Wiesel sometime in the not too distant future.
Architect: Schmidt Hammer Lassen architects
Built in: 2005
Builder: The Municipality of Halmstad
Facts
Area: 8,000 m²
Construction sum: € 12 million excl. VAT
Competition: 2002, 1st prize in restricted Nordic competition
Engineer: Rambøll A/S
Awards
2006, Nominated for the Kasper Salin Prize (in swedish)
2006, The Architecture Prize of the Municipality of Halmstad
2007, Awarded the Helgjutet-prize from Swedish Concrete Industry
The Architect’s web site about Halmstad Library
Schmidt Hammer Lassen architects
Images of other architects' works
Adams Memorial Library
102 E. Wesley Street
Wheaton, Illinois 60187
DuPage County
National Register of Historic Places
The Adams Memorial Library was designed by Charles Sumner Frost in the Romanesque Revival architecture style and built in 1891. It is now home to the DuPage County Historical Museum.
The 'colour library' (more correctly a storeroom) has thousands of sheets of smalti, indexed by production batch, sitting on shelves like books. The feeling of warmth and colour in this room is truly amazing, and any visitor to Venice should ask politely to take a look.
There's a lady who works in this room - just off the right hand edge of this picture - and (I presume) she spends her time selecting, sorting and cutting smalti to fill orders. There is a verandah at the back of the room that is used as a mosaic classroom, and from there you can look into these windows in the morning light and wave at the lady, who always smiled and waved back.
Rather shiny library sign at Edinburgh University catching the autumn sun, seemed perfect for a B&W shot, so fired off a quick snap while the light was just so
HCLS First Public Library in Maryland to Add Living Books to Collection as part of The Human Library™
Howard County Library System (HCLS) will become the first public library system in Maryland to give its customers the opportunity to borrow Living Books. The Human Library™ will be open on Saturday, March 11 from 1 to 5 pm at HCLS Miller Branch located at 9421 Frederick Road in Ellicott City. Framed around the adage “Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover,” the new initiative encourages participants to look beyond stereotypes and engage in meaningful dialogue. The goal is to foster a positive framework where open, one-on-one, honest conversations lead to greater understanding and acceptance in the community.
The HCLS Human Library will include Living Books from a variety of backgrounds, experiences and identities. Among the books will be a United States veteran with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, a transgender man, and a person living with Bipolar Disorder. Readers will sign up on a first-come basis to “borrow” the books at the Miller Branch, for a fifteen minute, one-on-one conversation to gain insight into their particular experiences and the often marginalizing stigma attached.
The Human Library is an international, innovative approach to challenging stigma, stereotypes, and prejudices through non-confrontational and respectful conversation. It is intended to be a welcoming, inclusive, non-partisan space where difficult questions are expected, appreciated, and answered. There is no political agenda. HCLS is striving to grow its collection of Living Books and expand the number of opportunities for readers to visit throughout the year.
The HCLS Human Library is part of this year’s Choose Civility initiative, Kindness Creates Community. It is presented in partnership with the Howard County Office of Human Rights and #OneHoward.
Walked uptown to the library today. Brought a drive with 80GB of data for YouTube but uploaded only one 4 GB file. dennissylvesterhurd.blogspot.ca/2015/09/uploaded-single-h...
The statue of Trim
Trim was a ship's cat that accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyages to circumnavigate and map the coastline of Australia in 1801-03.
Trim was born in 1799, aboard HMS Reliance on a voyage from the Cape of Good Hope to Botany Bay. The kitten fell overboard, but managed to swim back to the vessel and climb aboard by scaling a rope; taking note of his strong survival instinct and intelligence, Flinders and the crew made him their favourite.
Trim sailed with Flinders on HMS Investigator on his voyage of circumnavigation around the Australian mainland, and survived the shipwreck of the Porpoise on Wreck Reef in 1803. When Flinders was accused of spying and imprisoned by the French in Mauritius on his return voyage to England Trim shared his captivity until his unexplained disappearance, which Flinders attributed to his being stolen and eaten by hungry slaves.
Trim was black, with white paws, chin and chest. He was named after the butler in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, because Flinders considered him to be a faithful and affectionate friend. During his imprisonment Flinders wrote a biographical tribute to Trim in which he described him as 'one of the finest animals I ever saw … [his] robe was a clear jet black, with the exception of his four feet, which seemed to have been dipped in snow and his under lip, which rivaled them in whiteness. He had also a white star on his breast.'
In 1996 a bronze statue of Trim by sculptor John Cornwell was erected on a window ledge of the Mitchell Library in Sydney, directly behind a statue of his owner that was erected following the donation of Flinders' personal papers to the Library by his grandson in 1925. The popularity of the statue has since led to the development of a range of Trim merchandise by the State Library of New South Wales. The Library's cafe is also named after the cat.
The plaque under it says:
Plaque dedicated to Trim
“ TO THE MEMORY OF TRIM
The best and most illustrious of his race
The most affectionate of friends,
faithful of servants,
and best of creatures
He made the tour of the globe, and a voyage to Australia,
which he circumnavigated, and was ever the
delight and pleasure of his fellow voyagers
Written by Matthew Flinders in memory of his cat
Memorial donated by the North Shore Historical Society ”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_(cat)