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The Summer Kickoff was another big hit this year with balloon animals, face painting and the mascot from Menchies!
Johnston Library at 201 W. 10th Street in Baxter Springs Kansas. Built in 1872 and it was intended to be the County Courthouse but was never used for that purpose since Columbus got the county seat. It was used as the city hall until 1905. In 1905, Peter Nils Johnston, a Swedish immigrant, provided a bequest for the city to establish a permanent library in the building.
National Register #76000817. Added in 1976.
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Shirley Library. Monday 16 June 2014. File Reference: 2014-06-16-DSC04513
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
In 1848 Warrington had the proud distinction of becoming the first town in the United Kingdom to open a rate-supported public library. It was born from a long-established private subscription library that had been operating in Warrington since 1760 from the Horsemarket Street premises of the printer William Eyres.
By the mid-1880s, Warrington’s municipal library – by now housed in [these] purpose-built premises in Museum Street, the foundation stone of which was laid by William Beamont in front of a massive crowd – boasted over 20,000 books and was thought to be the largest of any town in England based on the number of books per head of population.
Celebrating Matariki 2019 at Shirley Library, Monday 17June 2019.
File reference: 2019-06-17-IMG_1875
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
Library of Celsus, Ephesus. Notice the hybrid Roman capital on an unfluted column, combining the Greek Ionian and Corinthian styles: Rome proclaims itself a new world order that surpasses all that was ancient Greece.
Description: Wet documents from the NDSU Archives are stacked on a cart after the flash flood.
Date of Original June 20, 2000
Item Number LD1-MVC-009S
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This library is run by Leeds libraries.
Find out more about this library: www.leeds.gov.uk/leisure/Pages/Guiseley-library.aspx
Photo credit: Leeds libraries
From a special Sesame Street exhibit at the Brooklyn Library. Picture sent by listener Mark Wiedenheft.
The library of the Conversationshaus on Norderney, Germany’s first North Sea spa island since 1797.
This grand classical building was constructed between 1836 and 1837 by architect Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves, commissioned by the Kingdom of Hanover under King Ernst August I.
It served as the social heart of the spa town, offering guests a refined space for reading, music, dance, and conversation.
To this day, the library retains its timeless elegance, reflecting an era when knowledge, culture, and seaside recovery were deeply intertwined.
The HEB Buddy came by the library to take pictures with the kids, and he brought along a helper who had snacks for the kids and read them a story!
Library’s Spooky Spiders didn’t spook these kids!
At the Villa Park Library’s October 28th program on Spooky Spiders, 16 children and about a dozen parents and grandparents heard nature educator Karen Ritter describe, using spider puppets, how various spiders capture their prey and why insect-devouring spiders are generally beneficial to humans. The high point of the program--for the children--was the chance to hold some spiders (safely dead and enclosed within clear plastic blocks) in their hands. Here one boy compares the size of a tarantula with the size of his own hand. In general, the children were more anxious than the adults to hold the spiders.
Found this at the Lincoln Library Book Sale, I love this book I had it when I was a kid.
Another thing that makes it interesting is that it is from the Peoria State Hospital a mental asylum which closed in 1972 and is now supposed to be haunted. The last time this book was checked out was in 1964.
A branch of the Detroit Public Library system on Martin Street. The building was built in 1913 and restored in 2000.
The Berlin Brain, located on the campus of the Free University of Berlin in Germany, is a truly unique library structure. The glass and steel edifice, which contains both active and passive energy-saving designs, is officially named the Philological Library, but has been nicknamed “the Berlin Brain” because of its resemblance to the shape of a human brain.
British architect Norman Foster designed the unusual building, which opened in 2005. The mass of the overall concrete structure acts as a thermal funnel and its double skin canopy and double floor act as an air duct and heat buffer. According to the weather, the building is either heated or cooled by water pipes embedded in the concrete slab floor. The Brain “breathes” to provide better ventilation and regulate the internal temperature by opening or closing the exterior flaps.