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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
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.
Chatsworth’s library is one of the house’s most important historic rooms, built up over centuries by the Devonshire family . It was shaped early on by Thomas Hobbes, then greatly expanded and reorganised by the 6th Duke of Devonshire in the early 19th century, when the Long Gallery was converted into the library space seen today The collection now includes over 17,000 books in the Library and Ante Library, and around 40,000 volumes in total, including Hobbes’s writings, Henry Cavendish manuscripts, medieval manuscripts, and early printed books.
Another library that now is the hub for lots of other activities. I think in Desborough's case (looking at the logos over the door) alongside the library this includes council services, fire, police and a sure start children's centre.
Unfortunately the opening hours are extremely short though, a couple of hours each weekday and on Saturday.
Photos from Earthshot Prize Boston 2022 events at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on December 1 - 2, 2022.
On Thursday, December 1st Rachel Flor, Executive Director of the JFK Library Foundation, and Hannah Jones, CEO of the Earthshot Prize, co-hosted a Welcome Reception in the Library’s Pavilion. Special guests included the Honorable Caroline Kennedy, Honorary President of the JFK Library Foundation; Dame Karen Pierce, British Ambassador to the United States; and Ron Sargent, Chairman of the JFK Library Foundation. The Foundation also hosted Students Lead: A Better Climate for Our Future, a town-hall style event in the Smith Center with student presenters from Boston Green Academy; moderator Tatiana Schlossberg; and panelists MA Lieutenant Governor-Elect Kim Driscoll and Associate EPA Administrator Rosemary Enobakhare. Sandy Edgerley, Earthshot Prize Boston 2022 Host Committee Co-Chair, introduced the program.
On Friday, December 2nd the Honorable Caroline Kennedy and her children Tatiana and Jack Schlossberg led HRH The Prince of Wales on a tour of the museum’s space exhibit and viewed an excerpt of President Kennedy’s Moonshot speech. Later in the day the Prince of Wales met with President Joe Biden at the Library.
Ernie Wayne - Ramrod from Hell
Popular Library 512, 1953
Cover Artist: A. Leslie Ross
"Wanted – A Fighting Man!"
I stumbled across this library in phone box last year when on a walk in the cotswolds.
I only remembered about it today when I saw a story on the BBC News website, about another Gloucestershire village doing the same thing.....
Swiss Cottage Library, designed by Sir Basil Spence and buit between 1959 and 1964. Visted during OpenHouse London 2012.
Woodcut title vignette (armed Turks and Europeans) used by Konrad Dreher of Erfurt.
Printer not established. VIAF gives two DNB headings but neither has enough information attached to identify with this Konrd Dreher.
CERL entry: Dreher, Konrad
Penn Libraries call number: GC55 A100 574g2
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
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.
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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.
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.
The Military in Marin, currently on display in the Anne T. Kent California Room display area at the Civic Center Library shines a spot light on several facets of Marin's military history including Hamilton Air Force Base; Marinship; and Historic Military Academies in Marin.
It also includes artifacts and photographs honoring two veterans, including noted Marin historian Richard Torney who served in Vietnam in the late 1960s and Sargeant Major John J. Kennedy of the U.S. Marines who served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam.