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This is a photo of the Millstein Division of US History, Local History and Genealogy. It is currently also serving as the Map Room.
The Library of Birmingham is the largest public library in the UK and with its iconic exterior with its concentric circles, not difficult to see why it's one of the top 10 places visited in the UK either.
Music Librarian Brad Short shows off items from Gaylord Music Library's special collections.
Photo credit: Evie Hemphill/Washington University Libraries
Teen Scene boasts an extensive collection of graphic novels, which are a big attraction for readers of all ages.
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
Title : Denver Central Library
Other title : Denver Public Library; Central Library
Creator : Michael Graves Architect; Klipp Colussy Jenks Dubois Architects; Hoyt, Burnham F., 1887-1967
Creator role : Architect
Date : 1956 (original stucture) 1995 (addition)
Current location : Denver, Colorado, United States
Description of work : Denver Central Library, the eighth largest library in the U.S., is located on Civic Center Park between the city's art museum and history museum in the Civic Center Cultural Complex. In 1995 a renovation of the existing 133,000-square-foot library, designed by Burnham Hoyt and completed in 1956, added an expansion of 405,000 square feet. The scale and coloration of the expansion, as well as the individualized massing of its components, allow the original library to maintain its own identity as one element of a larger composition. Two public entrances establish an east-west axis through the Great Hall, a three-story vaulted public room of urban scale, which is the focal point for visitor orientation and circulation. The south-facing rotunda contains specialized functional areas such as the reference room and periodicals center, with the Western History Reading Room above. (Source: Michael Graves, www.michaelgraves.com/files/arch/pdf/denver.pdf, Accessed 2/21/10)
Description of view : View of the east facade looking toward the southwest from across Broadway Street. The original library building is to the right. The North Building of the Denver Art Museum is also in distant view to the west.
Inscription : Inscribed above east entrace: THE DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY
Work type : Architecture and Landscape
Style of work : Modern: Classicism; Contemporary: Postmodern
Culture : American
Materials/Techniques : Stone
Concrete
Glass
Metal
Source : Pisciotta, Henry
Date photographed : April 2008
Resource type : Image
File format : JPEG
Image size : 2304H X 3072W pixels
Permitted uses : This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. Other uses are not permitted. For additional details see: alias.libraries.psu.edu/vius/copyright/publicrightsarch.htm
Collection : Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename : WB2009-0364 DCLExterior.JPG
Record ID : WB2009-0364
Sub collection : libraries
streets
walkways
museums
Copyright holder : Copyright Henry Pisciotta
English
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafra_National_Palace
The Rococo library, situated at the back of the second floor, is truly the highlight of this palace, rivalling the grandeur of the library of the Melk Abbey in Austria. Built by Manuel Caetano de Sousa, this library is 88 m long, 9.5 m wide and 13 m high. The magnificent floor is covered with tiles of rose, grey and white marble. The wooden bookshelves in Rococo style are situated on the sidewalls in two rows, separated by a balcony with a wooden railing. They contain over 35,000 leather-bound volumes, attesting of the extent of western knowledge from the 14th to the 19th century. Among them, are many valuable bibliographical jewels, such as incunabula. These beautiful finished volumes were bound in the local workshop (Livraria) in the rocaille style (also by Manuel Caetano de Sousa).
Besides natural techniques of conservation for the books, such as the lack of space between the wall and the book (so it doesn't create humidity), there are also a few bats that inhabit this library eating any insect that could destroy this invaluable treasure.
The Library was used in Gulliver's Travels (1996) as the Great Chamber of War for the Emperor of Lilliput.
Português
O maior tesouro de Mafra é a sua biblioteca, com chão em mármore, estantes em estilo rococó e uma coleção de mais de 36.000 livros com encadernações em couro gravadas a ouro,graças à acção da Ordem Franciscana, incluindo uma segunda edição de Os Lusíadas de Luís de Camões. Abrange áreas de estudo tão diversa como a medicina,farmácia,história,geografia e viagens,filosofia e teologia,direito canónico e direito civil,matemática,história natural,sermonária e literatura. Situada ao fundo do segundo piso é a estrela do palácio, rivalizando em grandiosidade com a Biblioteca da Abadia de Melk, na Áustria. Construida por Manuel Caetano de Sousa, tem 88 m de comprimento, 9.5 de largura e 13 de altura. O magnífico pavimento é revestido de mármore rosa, cinzento e branco. As estantes de madeira estilo rococó, situadas em duas filas laterais, separadas por um varandim contêm milhares de volumes encadernados em couro, testemunhando a extensão do conhecimento ocidental dos séculos XIV ao XIX. Entre eles muitas jóias bibliográficas, como incunábulos. Estes volumes magníficos foram encadernados na oficina local, também por Manuel Caetano de Sousa.
Although the Piedmont Avenue Library was fairly doomed even before the recent Oakland budget crisis, since the new owner of the library building intends to start charging market rate rent for it instead of the current deeply discounted rent.
Title / Titre :
Chez Henri Hotel, Aubry Street, Hull, Quebec /
Hôtel Chez Henri, rue Aubry, Hull (Québec)
Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : Clifford M. Johnston
Date(s) : 1930
Reference No. / Numéro de référence : ITEM 3321837
central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=3321...
Location / Lieu : Hull, Québec, Canada
Credit / Mention de source :
Clifford M. Johnston. Clifford M. Johnston fonds. Library and Archives Canada, PA-056427 /
Clifford M. Johnston. Fonds Clifford M. Johnston. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, PA-056427
Saint Louis University's Pius XII Library has the best. staff lounge. ever. I wish that I could steal this room and make it part of my haus. It is as wonderfully high style late 50s institutional immaculate as the rest of the place.
Ernie Wayne - Ramrod from Hell
Popular Library 512, 1953
Cover Artist: A. Leslie Ross
"Wanted – A Fighting Man!"
Swiss Cottage Library, designed by Sir Basil Spence and buit between 1959 and 1964. Visted during OpenHouse London 2012.
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.
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.
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.
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
Card Text (transcribed from postcard): This is one of the main Hospitals of Richmond, the which, with the Medical Colleges, have made the City known for and wide as a health resort. Richmond Hospitals are second to none.
Description: No published or copyright date listed on postcard.
Date Postmarked: 1915
Note: 1000 block of West Grace Street; Series # P63219;
Rights: This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
Reference URL: scholarscompass.vcu.edu/postcard/217
Collection: Rarely Seen Richmond: Early twentieth century Richmond as seen through vintage postcards
Calgary Central Library
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
(March 26, 2019)
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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.
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.