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My brother Bill and my father on the escalator, looking at art installations that are built into the walls.
I went on a little road trip for this one. This is the library on the campus of the University of Michigan. It was a cold night out tonight and there was some snow, so I propped up my camera and snap snap snap.
Yes, another HDR. I love what this technique opens the doors to. I just wish I had an 'angle view finder' so this would have been composed better (i.e. moved back about 4 ft to get the whole library and around it)
Camera: Canon T1i | Canon EF-S 18-55mm IS
Shot: Three shot HDR | -2EV/0EV/+2EV | ISO 400
SJCPLS, St. Johns County Recreation and Parks, and Junior Service League of St. Augustine partner for Little Free Libraries and each is unique to its neighborhood!
A great group of kids showed up at the library for the annual Freaky Friday party for kids who read at least 20 books in the Summer Reading Club and attend a certain number of the library's Summer programs. They were entertained with games and food and everyone got to take home a free book at the end of the night.
The Library of Celsus, the façade of which has been carefully reconstructed from all original pieces, was built ca. 125 CE by Gaius Julius Aquila in memory of his father and once held nearly 12,000 scrolls. Designed with an exaggerated entrance — so as to enhance its perceived size, speculate many historians — the building faces east so that the reading rooms could make best use of the morning light.
Date: May 15, 1957
Description: Richard Donovan, Chief Librarian of the Fort William Library and Elsie Popiel, Head of Circulation, declared that May 15, 1957, would be a day of amnesty for all "misplaced" library books. This event was run as part of Lakehead Library Week.
Accession No.: 994.1.166
$575,000 was paid for the most expensive piece of public art in Winnipeg's history: emptyful, a 22,000-kilogram, stainless-steel fountain that looms over Donald Street.
The artwork, a creation of Vancouver architect Bill Pechet, is illuminated by four bands of LED lights at night and uses both water and fog to make a statement about the abundance of space on the Canadian Prairies.
"The bottle is meant to be a symbolic container of emptiness. There's a hole in the bottom of it," the Edmonton-born, Vancouver-based Pechet said.
His Vancouver studio won a competition to create the public artwork as part of Winnipeg's role as Canada's cultural capital in 2010. Ottawa contributed $200,000 and the Winnipeg Arts Council covered the rest of the tab.
The design competition called for a large artwork along the Donald Street side of the Millennium Library property.
"They wanted to create a strong edge to the plaza on the west side, because there are two car ramps on Donald Street. They wanted to have a strong physical and environmental presence," he said.
Pechet created 12 different colour schemes to illuminate emptyful, whose stainless-steel frame has been blasted by glass beads to soften the edges and catch more light.
During the summer, when the fog and water elements will be operational, the fountain will be illuminated in blue, green and purples hues. During the winter, when the water elements won't be operational, the artwork will be lit up with reds, oranges and yellows.
The big books. Especially the three volume spider set, which is still the definitive set, if a little dated now. Anything that doesn't fit on the first shelf.
The public library in Devonport Guildhall, opened in 1986 and closed in February 2009.
The library was located in the former Devonport Mortuary. The white tiled walls being part of a listed building, the shelving was all freestanding.
The floor in the main room was levelled - underneath is the original sloping floor which removed the blood during autopsies.
Where I work there is this floating heart and an invitation to engage in fantasy. Shot on my iphone using the ColorSplash app. Always wanted to try this technique... Shot in the Van Wagenen Library at SUNY Cobleskill. View On Black
Exterior view of the Galesburg Public Library.
File Name: N-C1123
Date: 1962-10-15
Genre: Negative
Rights: No known copyright
Preferred citation: Courtesy Galesburg Public Library Archives
Photos on Galesburg Public Library's Flickr page are low-resolution scans of photos for personal use. For high-resolution, or to get permission to publish, contact the archivist at archives@galesburglibrary.org or visit www.galesburglibrary.org
Freaky Friday is the culmination of the Summer programs for the Tweens and Young Adults. They get to come to the library after hours on Friday and have pizza, games and win prizes! This year was a blast!
Music cannot be avoided on the way to reference! The reference desk was once backed by a tall shelving unit, which blocked the view to e-reference (specialized databases) and the Southwest Collection. Dave Genesy recommended the removal of several such barriers, opening up the library's interior spaces and making the most of the natural light pouring in through the north-facing windows.
The Harrisville Library is at the head of Mill Pond in this wonderfully preserved classic New England mill town.
This week I blog about the unique photographic opportunities in this New England treasure.
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Newcastle Central Library
I've spent too much time in here recently preparing for exams. It's a really amazing place with lots of book, what more can I say?
Wednesday 13 August 2014. File Reference: 2014-08-13-IMG_1301
Photo by Donna Robertson.
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
Picture Books (Japanese and English)
Picture‐story (Japanese only)
The YAMANAKAKO Public Library
for The People's Creativity.
〒401-0502
山梨県南都留郡山中湖村平野506-296
Tel. 0555-20-2727
Fax. 0555-62-4000
See this same view before the new library wing was built, see flic.kr/p/SZuZQQ
In 1900 when Miss Mary Eliza Scranton offered the Madison Library Association the use of a new, completely furnished, library building which she had built on the corner of Wall Street adjoining her family’s old home. The offer was accepted, books moved in, and in 1901 the Association dissolved and the E.C. Scranton Memorial Library was incorporated.
The original library building was designed by Henry Bacon, an eminent New York architect who later designed the Lincoln Memorial. A New York firm of “contracting designers” was in charge of the architecture, construction, decorations and furnishings, the total cost of which was about $30,000.
The library was added to in 1989 and again in 2020 (along Wall St.)
(Photo Credit Bob Gundersen www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums)