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LA County Library hosts a Family Fun Fest at the Lawndale Library, April 12, 2025. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker)L
John W. Graham Library, Munk Centre, Trinity College, University of Toronto (UofT)
3 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The new Library building in Birmingham is stunning, both inside and out. You are able to ascend right to the roof on the 7th floor - the final journey in a glass lift - where you can look out across the City to the surrounding coutryside. There is also a herb garden on the 4th floor. Hopefully this set of photos gives you a taste of the building and the wonderful veiws of the surrounding buildings.
1st Floor, looking eastwards from the top of the escalators to the lift. 1995
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File Reference: Arch52-BWN-0058
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries Archives
The City of West Hollywood Celebrates National Literacy Month in September with WeHo Reads: Noir, a month of free Saturday programming for adults and children at the West Hollywood Library and Park, culminating with Day of Noir on September 27th. Photo credit: Tony Coelho
Brenda's craft for the week was to make tooth pillows for the Tooth Fairy to use when she comes by the exchange some money for a tooth!
Built in 1910 by Henry Huntington, heir to the Huntington Fortune, the Huntington Library and Gardens hold some of the largest collections of plants and rare books and manuscripts in the nation. Apparently, Huntington's collectors found a prime buyer's market in post-WWI Europe.
San Marino, California
The floor in the lobby of the Library of Congress. In the center is a gilded eagle. In the middle of each of the round inlays around the perimeter is a gilded Zodiac symbol.
Hasselblad 500 cm Zeiss CE T* 50mm f/4. Ilford delta100Pro, D-76 1:1 10.2". Nikon CS 9000 ED. Some software tweaks.
Jolly Jumbuck
The Jolly Jumbuck was a unique travelling story telling service for Victorian country children. Funded by the Library Promotion Council, the Jolly Jumbuck was a bus fitted out with a pull-down puppet theatre, audio tapes, a book collection for storytelling, shadow and hand puppets, and could hold sixty children (though often squashed beyond capacity, such was its popularity). Initially the bus drove to country centres, where contents of the bus would empty into various rooms in the library or school visited, so that the children could be introduced to the maximum book-related activities during the visit. Local librarians and teachers would operate activities in different rooms while the staff employed to operate the Jumbuck told stories to halls full of children. Children were also encouraged to perform their own plays with the hand and shadow puppets.
The driver of the Jolly Jumbuck was Trevor Primmer, whose character and performing abilities quickly became a trademark of the Jolly Jumbuck. Initially employed to drive the bus, Trevor's enthusiasm soon saw him juggling and clowning, thus creating an extraordinary rapport with any audience. The success of the Jolly Jumbuck reflects the exuberant enthusiasm for live storytelling for both performers and audience. The Jolly Jumbuck folded in 1989.
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File Reference: CCL-LY-2006-01-21-Ly1
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
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From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
Painting on the wall of the library in the duomo in Siena. Painted to give a sense of prespective (the wall is actually flat)
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Pictures from the miniature golf event held at Hall Memorial Library in Ellington, CT in 2017. See our review at www.theputtingpenguin.com
"The Past Reimagined: Victorian Fashion and the Designs of Eladrienne Laval"
Whitehorn Library, Caledon Victoria City
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Through February 2008
Eladrienne Laval's real life background as an artist and a student of History guides her SL design work, and her experience with the fabric arts informs both eye and her design choices.
This exhibit explores Miss Laval's creations from source image though design and construction, and places them in the context of her inspirations from Victorian art and Fashion. A section of the exhibit looks at one of Miss Laval's favorite designers, Charles Frederick Worth, the father of haute couture. Caledon Library curator Siri Woodget has collaborated with Miss Laval to supplement the exhibit with materials on one of Worth's famous patrons, Isabella Stewart Gardner.Indeed, the exhibit features the unveiling of a new item of SL couture! Especially for this exhibit, Miss Laval has created an in-world re-imagined version of one of Mrs. Gardner's favorite dresses by Worth.
The Caledon Library would like to extend its thanks to the Isabella Stewart Gardenr Museum of Boston, Massachusetts, for its kind permission to use materials relating to the life of Mrs. Gardner
This is the building where I started my working life in September 1963. It had formerly been a Baptist Chapel but was then the local branch of Shropshire County Library.
It was on the corner of Stafford Road and Slaney Street and I was delighted to find it still standing 50 years later.
Funding for this Carnegie library was granted on October 4, 1901 in the form of $100,000. It was erected in 1915 using the Classical Revival designs of architect Henry D. Whitfield. Ramon Carbia was the contractor responsible for its construction. The building was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is a also contributing property to the Puerta de Tierra Historic District, listed in 2019.
Information from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Carnegie
San Juan is the capital and largest city of Puerto Rico. Today the city surrounds BahÃa de San Juan (San Juan Bay) and extends far into the interior of the Island of Puerto Rico, but historically was situated primarily on the fortified islet of San Juan. Located in the eastern Greater Antilles on the Atlantic Ocean, San Juan is one of the largest and most economically important cities in the Caribbean region. The historic city is the oldest European-established community in the United States, founded by Spanish colonists in 1521. It is home to roughly 340,000 residents and some of the foremost institutions of the island commonwealth.
As Goes Janesville Community Cinema Screening - Sequoya Library on Saturday, October 20, 1:00 pm.
Madison Public Library is joining with The Independent Television Service (ITVS), to present its popular Community Cinema program. The largest public interest outreach program in public or commercial television, Community Cinema features a sneak peek of nine documentaries set to broadcast on the award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. Madison Public Library will screen Community Cinema films monthly from September through June at the Sequoya Library on the third Saturday of each month at 1 pm. After the screenings, Madison Public Library and Community Cinema will feature panel discussions with leading community based organizations, special guest speakers, information, resources, and other programming designed to help people learn more and get involved.
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Owl on the front of the Lillian H. Smith Library on College Street. This is an interest post-modern library that opened in 1995. I have to go back on a day when they're closed to get the entrance of the library