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OK. I'm trying for that "zen" thing. Simple. Form. Line. Light. Hmmm... maybe simplicity isn't my cup of tea...
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!
pierre berton resource library / diamond and schmitt architects / vaughan, canada
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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
Title/View: Warsaw University Library: general view of lower garden paths and entrance garden
Title: Warsaw University Library
Other title: Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie; BUW
Creator: Budzynski, Marek; Badowski, Zbigniew
Creator role: Architect
Creator 2: Bajerska, Irena
Creator 2 role: Landscape architect
Date: 1994-2002
Current location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Description of work: Located between the Vistula River and the Warsaw Escarpment on a culturally and ecologically significant site, the library's design is based on a "city in the woods" concept and was the winning entry of the 1993 design competition for the building. The library is built within the existing topography of the landscape (two levels below grade and two levels above grade) and is constructed of reinforced concrete, steel, glass, and pre-patinated copper. The building's 5,000 square meter green roof is watered by a stormwater irrigation system and contains four thematic gardens, each of which is surrounded by massive skylights and connected by steel bridges. The roof gardens provide expansive views of the city and are integrated into the adjacent University Public Garden by grand staircases and linear water channels. "The library's interior is divided both functionally and physically by a glass enclosed street arcade, which serves to separate and connect the library stacks andleased commercial space.The copper facade along Dobra Street displays eight [4x7 meter] copper tablets containing six different alphabets, mathematical and chemical equations and musical and literary concepts." (Sources: Linke, Lybra, "University Gardens, Warsaw" Topos. Jan. 2005, vol. 51, pp 98-102; Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie. www.buw.uw.edu.pl/en/index.php?option=com_content&tas... Accessed 6/1/16.
Description of view: A fork in garden paths: on the left, leading to a bridge crossing the water, and on the right, leading to the entrance garden stairs to the rooftop's upper garden. Library buildings in the background.
Work type: Architecture and Landscape
Style of work: Contemporary: Postmodern
Culture: Polish
Materials/Techniques: Plants
Water
Masonry
Source: Pisciotta, Henry (copyright Henry Pisciotta)
Date photographed: May 2011
Resource type: Image
File format: JPEG
Image size: 2736H X 3648W pixels
Permitted uses: This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. Other uses are not permitted.
Collection: Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename: WB2014-0315 Library.jpg
Record ID: WB2014-0315
Sub collection: libraries
campuses
Copyright holder: Copyright Henry Pisciotta
"It's a still life watercolour, of a now late afternoon"
from The Dangling Conversation by Simon and Garfunkel
Clifford Whitworth Building, Salford University. Information Facilities or Library in plain English.
Creator: White, William Charles, 1873-1960
Title: [Group of students at St. Andrew's Boys School]
Date: n.d.
Extent: 1 photograph: b&w ; (8x8cm)
Notes: From a collection of glass negatives and lantern slides of China taken by Bishop W.C. White. Title transcribed from caption when available.
Format: Magic Lantern Slide
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Part of: MS Coll. 32 White, William Charles Papers.
Finding Aid located at: www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/collections/findaids/white...
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.
taken after sunset, but with an eight-second exposure, so the sky turned out a crazy blue. :)
i just learned about "bracketing." yes. i'm a newbie. but bracketing? holy good god, the coolest thing ever.
Back across the dual carriageway we find Blomfield’s 1906 domed public library on Free School Lane with the fun Jacobean co-operative opposite and streetscape pierced by St Swithin’s spire.
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!
Date: 1995 October
Category: Library
Type: Image
Identifier: LP2451
Source: Alexander, Mary
Owner: South Pasadena Public Library
Previous Identifier: N/A
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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.
The library was organized as early as 1890, moving into its own building in 1904.
The Swanton Library was originally a Pest House that was only used once soon after was turned into what is probably the worlds most tiny Library. It was a functioning Library with books and no Librarian until a few years ago when all the books were moved to the gymnasium.
Betty Krajnik, a retired school teacher, continues to provide the local children with a "Story Hour" every Wednesday which she has done since 1975. She would often hold Story Hour in the historic Library until the early 80's, Children look forward to Story Hour which is now held in the Fire Hall across the street.