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My current book: 'Come Along With Me: Part of a Novel, Sixteen Stories and Three Lectures' by Shirley Jackson. Edited by Stanley Edgar Hyman.
This is a 1968 hardcover edition, ex-library. Found on the $2 table at the Lyneham second hand book shop.
As a reward for reading during the Summer, the library has a special event for the kids at the city pool with swimming and hot dogs!
Reading up on coding in the BCIT library, there is so much to learn from books!
New Media Student - Keegan Buchanan
The Library of Congress (LC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. The library is housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.; it also maintains the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress
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A Kalamazoo Public Library program on January 27, 2010, complete with recipes, food facts, cooking tips, and samples from Elizabeth Forest, People’s Food Co-op’s queen of fast, nutritionally-packed, delicious, family-friendly foods. www.kpl.gov/
As a reward for reading during the Summer, the library has a special event for the kids at the city pool with swimming and hot dogs!
The Malaga Cove Library in Palos Verdes has monthly sales of books that residents donate. As you wander through the rooms below the library, every nook and cranny has walls lined with wonderful collections, all for sale.
Carnegie Mellon University Libraries' "Library Arcade" game
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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.
By renowned practice Bradshaw, Gass and Hope, 1929-32. Rebuilt after war damage. Contemporary inter-war classical complex on wedge shaped site, consisting of D-plan Library and Registrar's Office with straight front to road, small Porter's Lodge to side and free-standing rectangular-plan Theatre (formerly Town Hall) to rear with curving colonnade corresponding to Library.
Cream sandstone ashlar. Oval portico in antis with Roman Doric screen and Town crest in cartouche supported by swag above cornice; octagonal lantern. Original glazed revolving door in timber case with pair of panelled leaves; fluted Ionic pilasters with dentilled cornice and anthemion frieze and cresting; plate glass fanlight with wrought-iron fleur-de-lys grille.
This extensive inter-war classical composition is set tightly on a prominent corner site and it is a major example of this building type for the period. It was a prominent public commission by a successful English practice (Bolton) who came to specialise in Methodist churches and civic complexes during the inter-war period. Bradshaw Gass and Hope's extraordinary output is comparable to that of Vincent Harris, with commissions for other civic complexes won at Wimbledon, Stratford, Lewisham, Luton and Chesterfield. The practice was responsible for the reconstruction after it was bomb-damaged in WW2.
Built on the site of North Leith Manse as a condition of Leith's final incorporation with Edinburgh.
The sculptured entrance is crowned by a blazing sun-disk. At the right end and left ends are faces symbolizing Phospher the morning star (the east or Orient) and Hesper the evening star (the west or Occident). The legend on the center panel reads:
THE
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
DEDICATED TO
THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING
All of these sculptures are the work of the New York sculptors Mundhenk and Schoomaker working under the general supervision of Lee Lawrie. However the themes were suggested by the University Librarian.
The University of Cincinnati General Library building is unusual in that it was built in a natural amphitheater. Construction began with a great wall across the amphitheater. Then as earth was excavated for the foundation of the building it was used to fill up the shallower portion of the amphitheater and so provide a level approach to the building. The building is seven stories high with the main doorway at the fourth level. Entrance is by means of a bridge from the top of the great wall to this doorway. Below the bridge, at the third floor level is the service driveway and the lower entrance. By this driveway all mail, express and freight is received and dispatched.
The general idea in planning the building was that the undergraduate college student who comes to study for an hour between class periods will be served on the entrance floor. At the rear end of this floor are the Stephen Collins Foster Memorial Room, the George Elliston Poetry Room and ample rest rooms.
On the parapet of the central section are two inscriptions. At the north, one from Sir Francis Bacon’s Essay on Education:
READ NOT TO CONTRADICT AND CONFUTE NOR TO
BELIEVE AND TAKE FOR GRANTED NOR TO TALK
AND DISCOURSE BUT TO WEIGH AND CONSIDER
At the south, one from John Milton’s Areopagitica:
FOR BOOKS ARE NOT ABSOLUTELY DEAD THINGS
BUT DO CONTAIN A POTENCIE OF LIFE IN THEM
TO BE AS ACTIVE AS THOSE WHOSE PROGENY THEY ARE
from A DESCRIPTIVE REPORT ON THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI GENERAL LIBRARY BUILDING
Blegen Library, once the University's Main Library, was deemed too small in 1963 for the University's growing collection and enrollment. The Main Library's collection moved to Langsam Library in 1978. After this move, the building was renamed Blegen Library and was renovated and reopened in 1983, housing the Archives and Rare Books Library, the College-Conservatory of Music Library, the Classics Library, and the Curriculum Resources Center (now the College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, or CECH library in Teacher’s College).
The year 2005 marked the 75th anniversary of the former Main Library, now Blegen, and the 110th anniversary of University Libraries. The renovation of the Main Library created a drastically different interior. Previously, there was a large, grand, open entrance hall to the library. Upon renovation, this space was divided into numerous floors to allow for multiple divisions of the building, not just one library. Fortunately, “the beautiful architectural details were preserved and cleaned.” There are statues, chandeliers, carvings, inscriptions, and decorations found inside and outside the building.
Carl Blegen, the building’s namesake, is known and respected for his groundbreaking archaeological findings in Troy and Pylos. Blegen is also known for developing modern scientific methods in archeology. UC earned a reputation around the world as a research institution, largely due to the archaeological excavations of Carl Blegen and others in the Classics department. Blegen had a “single-minded driving ambition…to uncover the ancient civilizations,” indicated by the fact that he listed the University of Cincinnati as his “office,” and “‘9 Plutarch Street, Athens 9, Greece’ as his ‘home.’” His tremendous findings include the palace of Nestor, a King who played a part in the Greek siege of Troy; and Linear B writing tablets, which were evidence that Greeks of that time could read and write. Blegen wrote multiple books relating to archaeology, and contributed much to the University of Cincinnati. After studying and receiving degrees at multiple notable institutions, including a Ph. D. from Yale, Blegen went on to work at the American School of Classical Studies, followed by 30 years at UC as a professor of classical archaeology from 1927 until 1957 and the head of the Department of Classics during 1950 to 1957. Carl Blegen died at the age of 84 in 1971 in a Greek hospital.
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In 1927 the university commissioned Harry Hake, a rising star in Cincinnati architecture, to designed a new library almost next door the the existing Van Wormer Library . . . The new building was also designed in the Greek Revival style, with a series of inscriptions and bas-reliefs carved into its facade that represent the pursuit of knowledge. Within the parapet above the door, the scene represents modern civilization as the product of Eastern and Western intellectual history, represented by the Hebrew and Latin words for light and various symbols of knowledge, such as an Assyrian winged lion . . . Below the fifth floor windows are two panels representing great thinkers and scholars. . . In the doorway of the library are two groups of bronzes, sculpted by George Marshall Marin, depicting Minerva and a series of bas-reliefs that tell the story of bookmaking.
Originally the interior was marked by a large open rotunda, surrounded by rooms. The stacks were constructed out of cast iron . . . In 1978 the general collection was removed to the new library across campus and the interior of the structure was redesigned to accomodate a variety of offices . . . At the time of its remodeling the library was renamed after archeology professor Carl Blegen.