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Who says psychical media is dead?
The new £188.8 million Library of Birmingham will open on Tuesday 3 September.
Jessie J was crowned BBC Sound of 2011.
She is a spectacular live performer who performed at Get It Loud In Libraries at Lancaster Library on Dec 8th 2008.
Photo by: Frances Ross
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
By 1975, Cabell Library had expanded to its current five floors -- lower level, first, second, third and fourth. While interiors would be updated and collections and services expanded over the years, no significant change to the footprint or exterior would be made until the 2000s. Need for larger space became very clear. From 2000 to 2013, the number of patrons per year doubled from 1 million to 2 million.
The Library of Celsus is Ephesus's best known landmark, owing to the remarkable preservation of it's facade which, having collapsed at some point in the Middle Ages was meticulously pieced back together and re-erected in the late 1970s (with a concealed steel frame to protect against further earthquake damage).
Ephesus is justly famed as one of the finest ancient Roman sites anywhere. The ruins of the city are extensive with many impressive monuments to amaze the visitor (that have often been partially reassembled to give an indication of their former glory and context).
Unfortunately the fame and popularity of the site means that, unlike most of the classical sites we visited elsewhere, it is constantly crowded with tourists. However the city has always attracted visitors, and among those who spent time here centuries ago were St Paul and St John (and possibly Mary herself if one believes in the authenticity of her nearby residence).
This was the library of the house my ex and I were renting in Kenosha, Wisconsin for a while. This was in the middle of me trying to sort and organize everything.
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.
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.
From a collection of magic lantern slides held at Hastings Library
For more information or to obtain a print please contact East Sussex Libraries: library.enquiries@eastsussex.gov.uk
The Avon Public Library joined the Elgin County Library Co-Operative in 1949. The library was located above the Daniel General Store, as shown in this 1949 photograph of the Elgin County Library Co-Operative Bookmobile. In 1965, Avon joined the Middlesex County Library system.
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.
The West Lorne Public Library was formed in 1895 and joined the Elgin County Library Association as a founding member in 1936. This 1890s photograph shows the original Librarian, John Chasely, who served from 1895 until his retirement in 1924.
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.
Title / Titre :
Ypres Cathedral /
Cathédrale d'Ypres
Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : Mary Riter Hamilton
Date(s) : 1919
Reference No. / Numéro de référence : ITEM 2836038, 2897732
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Location / Lieu : Ypres, Belgium / Ypres, Belgique
Credit / Mention de source :
Mary Riter Hamilton. Library and Archives Canada, C-101327
Mary Riter Hamilton. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, C-101327
More like a huge holding cell than library. The burly, thuggish-looking men in this photo were, alas, tourists, not prisoners. (The prison has been closed since 1963.)
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
Bishan Library is next t a bus and train interchange and a shopping centre. There are lots of people walking around. The children's area is in the basement, and the young adult area on the top floor. Like other Singapore public libraries visited, it had an excellent comic collection.
The Grand Staircases
The two great staircases flanking the Great Hall are embellished by elaborate and varied sculptural work by Philip Martiny. At the base of each is a bronze female figure wearing classic drapery and holding a torch of knowledge. They are signed "P H Martiny, sculptor NY"; the foundry's name is also inscribed at the base. Each stair railing is decorated with a fanciful series of cherubs carved by Martiny in white marble. In a niche on the north side is a plaster bust of Thomas Jefferson and on the south is a bronze bust of George Washington; both are copied from works by the sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon. The balustrade on each side of the top landing contains Martiny's figures of cherubs modeled to represent the fine arts. At the north landing, they are Painting, Architecture, and Sculpture; at the south landing, Comedy, Poetry, and Tragedy.
The cherubs in the ascending railing of each staircase--according to Small's Handbook--represent "the various occupations, habits, and pursuits of modern life." The series begins at the bottom with the figure of a stork. Then, on the north side of the hall, are figures of a Gardener, with a spade and a rake; an Entomologist, capturing butterflies; a Student poring over a text; a Printer, with typefaces, a type case, and a press. Halfway up the railing, on the same level, are cherubs representing Asia and Europe. Next comes a Musician; a Physician, mortar and pestle in hand; and an Electrician holding a telephone receiver at his ear and, Small writes, "with a star of electric rays shining on his brow." At the top of the railing is an Astronomer with a telescope.
In the staircase railing on the south side of the Great Hall, beginning at the bottom, the figures are a Mechanic with a cogwheel and pincers; a Hunter, with a gun, hoisting a rabbit he has just shot; a Vintner dressed like Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, holding a goblet; a Farmer with a sickle and a sheaf of wheat. Halfway up the railing are cherubs representing Africa and America. Next comes a Fisherman; a Soldier, a Chemist, with a blowpipe; and, last but not least, a Cook.