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November 4, 2019 - Avalon Library Grand Re-Opening with County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisor Janice Hahn, 4th District. Avalon Library, part of LA County Library, is located on the island of Catalina. Photograph by Monica Almeida.
See more scenes of this recently expanded and refurbished library at flic.kr/s/aHsmRy9Js7.
(Photo credit - Bob Gundersen www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums)
AA Gymnastics visited the library again and showed off their moves! At the end of the program kids from the audience got a chance to try out some of the training equipment to flip over backward!
The Sparta Public Library was a founding member of the Elgin County Library Association in 1936. From 1942 until it closed in 1959, the library branch in Sparta was housed in the general store built in 1846 by Hiram B. Smith and later operated by Morley Gorvett.
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 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)
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...
So this is where I get confused. According to my journal, which I typed at the end of the day each day of our trip, after leaving the French Roast, we apparently walked along 8th Street, where Ally bought a skirt-pants item from a Tibetan store. Then we spotted this building. However, this building is between the French Roast and 8th Street. So...anyway, Ally did buy something from a Tibetan store in the area, and after taking a few pics of this building, we headed down 5th Avenue to Washington Square.
This building, which at the time reminded me of Saint Basil's Cathedral, is actually part of the New York Public Library system. According to Wikipedia, it was built as a courthouse (completed in 1877), and used in that capacity until 1945. It was reopened as a library in 1967.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Market_Library
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As part Holocaust Memorial Week a special Human Library was created by students, staff and members of the local community including people from Colchester Mind and homelessness charity Emmaus Colchester. The Human Library in the Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall Foyer gave people a chance to understand and find out about people with a potentially very different view on the world. The aim is to bring together people from different backgrounds to foster interaction and challenge prejudice.
Booth Library on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on July 1, 2011. (Jay Grabiec)
AA Gymnastics visited the library again and showed off their moves! At the end of the program kids from the audience got a chance to try out some of the training equipment to flip over backward!
I guess I can make this shot & the Cinema I & VI a "guess the city" (but don't if you know from me where I visited). Well, it's more of a identify-if-you've-been-there city, kind of hard to guess...
The New Bodleian building on Broad Street in Oxford was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in the 1930s. It re-opened as the Weston Library in March 2015 after extensive refurbishment. 5 frame HDR.
I like how the banner fits nicely between the columns by day and by night.
August 2007 - Exhibitions & Events
Famous: Karin Catt portraits
This free exhibition presents striking celebrity portraits by high-profile Australian photographer Karin Catt. These iconic images of famous faces, from hip-hop artist Eminem to Mikhail Gorbachev, evoke the world of popular culture seen in the pages of Vogue and Rolling Stone. (A National Portrait Gallery touring exhibition.)
Time: 13 July-11 November, 10am-5pm daily
Venue: Keith Murdoch Gallery
Free
State Library of Victoria
328 Swanston St
Melbourne VIC 3000
General Enquiries (03) 8664 7000
Statue, Craven College, Skipton and Free Library, Skipton
Statue of Sir Matthew Wilson
SD 9951 1/60
Monument to Sir Matthew Wilson, first Member of Parliament for Skipton 1885-6.
Square sandstone plinth with moulded base and cornice, supporting standing stone figure by A Bruce Joy 1888.
Listing NGR: SD9901251805
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright.
AT a time when almost half the population of Great Britain was illiterate and when work life was hardly above the level of slavery, an organisation sprang up driven mostly by the middle classes, passionately committed to improve the lot of the working poor.
Skipton Mechanics' Institution started with a limp in 1823, hobbled along again from 1839 and then leapt into life more sure footed in 1847.
This fledgling organisation had been using rooms in the Hole in the Wall Yard, off Court Lane and later from 1847 based itself in a two roomed property in Chancery Lane, off High Street - now demolished.
This latter manifestation came about thanks to a gang of moneyed backers, the upper crust of the town, mill owners, members of the professions and other worthies including Skipton Building Society.
It did well. And by 1852 it was issuing over 2000 books a year and about 75 members were attending classes in writing arithmetic, grammar, geography, French, higher mathematics, history and reading, plus a host of scientific lectures.
To cater especially for the working classes it set up People's Concerts and in 1860, to cultivate more cultural amusement, established "Penny Readings".
For a penny, illiterate folk could listen to readings of great literature - the likes of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. They were so popular the Craven Herald reported that as many as 400 people would assemble in the Temperance Hall.
It was the opening of Skipton's New Town Hall in 1862 which saw the next big change. It freed up the Georgian building in Sheep Street where the town council had been meeting .
So the trustees upped-sticks from Chancery Lane and decamped in Sheep Street thanks to the benevolence of Sir Richard Tufton who charged them just a nominal rent.
This chap Tufton was to crop up again offering his generous hand in the late 1890s. He was Sir Richard Tufton, Second Baron Hothfield whose family seat was Skipton Castle.
The tale goes like this. Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee arrived in 1887. So not letting a chance to boost their institution slip through their fingers, the trustees launched a memorial subscription and keen to get in on the act local big-wigs dug deep into their frock coats to pull out wads of notes including Baron Tufton along with Skipton mill mogal J Dewhurst, the Duke of Devonshire, Walker Morrison of Malham and former Skipton MP Matthew Wilson. A total of £2,382 was raised.
But Tufton's largesse didn't stop there. Next he popped up with a gift of land in High Street on which to construct a Science and Art School, a project that took two years to complete and was opened on September 25,1894.
Ownership was held by a special body of trustees who pledged to permit the building to be occupied by the directors of Skipton Mechanics' Institution for the purpose of educating children, adults, artisans and others in technical and general instruction in a variety of trades and professions.
The final pioneering effort of the Mechanics' in conjunction with the Science and Art School and Skipton Urban District Council was to fund a library.
Predictably, they launched a subscription scheme and with the knowledge of the philanthropic work of the Scot Andrew Carnegie at the back of their minds - he had financed a number of other public libraries, including Keighley's - he was approached and he flipped up £3,000 towards the construction. In 1910, the present library was handed over to the town.
There was a period of little activity between 1914 and 1946 apart for the provision of many school prizes, books and grants to individual students, money also going to Craven Naturalists and generous financial support to Craven Museum in 1928.
Following the Second World War, the West Riding of Yorkshire took over full control of further education and the trustees authorised the a lease of the Science and Art School to the county.
And 1971 saw another significant change when the trustees agreed to sell the freehold of the High Street premises to North Yorkshire County Council for continued occupation by Craven College.
Thanks to the Craven Herald
The Reserve Desk (707.527.4758) is the only service desk on the fourth floor. Textbooks, articles, recommended readings, old tests and more are placed in the Reserve Collection by SRJC instructors.
Clifford Whitworth Building, Salford University. Information Facilities or Library in plain English.
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Appropriately, it is emblazoned with the name of noted industrialist Andrew Carnegie, whose name is on quite a few libraries and public—though usually knowledge-related—buildings around the nation (I lost count when we lived in Pittsburgh), with Ohio receiving a healthy share of Carnegie-sponsored libraries.
Though the Greenville Library had its start in 1889 with $75 in locally-raised donations and later, buildings donated by businessmen, the "Free Public Library" kept growing! In 1901, the people of Greenville appealed to Mr. Carnegie, who gave the city $25,000 for the library, with the provision that the city provide a minimum of $2,000 yearly for upkeep. A local man and the school board donated additional funds just shy of eleven grand.
Greenville wasted no time—money in hand, the cornerstone was laid in October of '01; it was finished and opened in 1905. W.S. Kaugman of Indiana was the architect of this handsome edifice for the storage and dissemination of knowledge.
Thanks to the library's continuing expansion (not a bad thing, especially in a small town!), an addition was built in 2007-08. Though we can tell it's new, a very good job was done keeping it in the style of the rest of the library (Architects: Woolpert LLP). It's clear that the additions are what they are, but they blend wonderfully.
The Greenville Public Library is on the National Register of Historic Places, having been listed in 1980. I'd have loved to go inside, but was unable to this particular day. Perhaps another time.
Jack Woodford - Teach Me to Love
(Original Title: Strangers in Love)
Novel Library 44. 1950
Cover Artist: unknown
"A Special Brand of Love"
Old Dandenong Library during the relocation from the old site in Stuart Street to the new one in the Walker Street municipal building.
The last day of operation at the old site was Sunday March 2 2014 and the first day at the new site was Monday March 17. During this period a shuttle bus operated to the council's other library in Springvale.
Removal van taking a load of books to the new site.