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Petrolia, Ontario, Canada.
This classic Victorian structure was built in 1903 for the Grand Trunk Railroad. In 1937 it was re-purposed for use as the community's public library.
The wheeled stair and shelves of wonderful leather bound books from the library at Stourhead.
I found the library to be rather light and airy compared to many in old stately homes, makes for a refreshing change.
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I was in complete awe when I finally stepped in here - Joe + Rika Mansueto Library at UChicago.
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Although I did the initial sorting, the gorgeous arrangement you see here owes a great deal to the tireless efforts and elegance of my friend Erika, book organizer to the stars [errr, to starting junior professors :-)]
Stunning art and architecture at the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress in Washington DC.
Timed-entry pass is required.
What a cool little library I found.
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Ein geführte Tour im Trinity College - interessante und heitere Geschichte und Geschichten. In der alten Bibliothek sieht man die Spuren des durchgeführten Sanierungsprojektes - Umlagerung aller Gegenstände: leere Regale
Voigtländer Nokton 50mm 1.0 Aspherical
When I visited the Library, I used my new Lens, to test it in low light.
It is very nice to see that the Library is used by people, the internet cannot have all information and it is much more difficult to "google" today.
A rather special wrought iron sign is on the side of the former Victoria Jubilee Institute and public baths in Tunstall, building of which was started in 1889. The uses of the building included the Free Library and this was marked by the sign provided by local worthy and brick & tile manufacturer John Nash Peake in 1901. Sadly the building is now entirely derelict and up for sale at a knock-down price. Renovation of the Grade II listed structure would cost millions.
HFF! I took this photo of a tiny free library in front of someone's house in Mississauga. Take a book * Return a book. Best seen large by pressing Z or clicking on the photo.
This organization Builds and places weatherproof boxes to be used for the free exchange of books.
Thanks for visiting, much appreciated.
A Little Free Library made by Ritch Branstrom in front of his AdHocWORKshop in Rapid River. With apologies to all my librarian friends who know this is not really a library. Explored #43 on June 10, 2019.
Darwen Library and Theatre, Knott Street, Darwen. This is a Carnegie Library and was designed by architect Raymond Harrison. It opened in 1908 and is listed Grade II.
The Columbia Public Library in Columbia Missouri by Notley Hawkins Photography. Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV camera with a Canon EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM lens at Æ’/8.0 with a 3.2 second exposure at ISO 100. Processed with Adobe Lightroom 6.4.
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Glasgow University Library is the modern building in the shot and the round building is the Glasgow University Library Reading Room. This image was taken from the grounds of the Main University Building on University Avenue.
The McMillan Reading Room, also known as the 'Round Reading Room,' was designed by T. Harold Hughes and David Stark Reid Waugh between 1936 and 1939, and renamed in memory of University benefactors, Robert and Edith McMillan. This A-listed building was awarded a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) bronze medal in 1950 for the best building erected in Scotland during the period 1936-1949.
It was built on the site of New Hillhead House dating from c1850. The house was gifted to the University in 1917 by the family of Walter MacLellan of Blairvaddick (1815-89) in his memory. A bust of Walter MacLellan currently sits inside the Reading Room. The Psychology, Russian and Celtic departments occupied the villa in the 1930s.
Since the reading room situated in the south-east quadrangle of the Gilbert Scott Building was no longer able to accommodate the number of students or sustain the required longer opening hours, Principal Hetherington requested urgent funds for a new reading room. The University Grants Committee gave a grant of £15,000 and the Bellahouston Trustees gave a further £7,500 towards the estimated construction cost of £20,000.
Hughes presented a number of alternative designs in January 1938 which involved a U-plan courtyard arrangement of potential future buildings around the south, west and north sides of the reading room, leaving the east side open towards Thomas Lennox Watson's Wellington Church of 1883-1884. The plan was also meant to incorporate a square clock tower. In the end only the Reading Room was built. The monumental circular domed building is meant to be a modern interpretation of the Pantheon in Rome.
The new Reading Room was built to meet the primary needs of students in first and second year courses in all Faculties and have the longest opening hours of any unit in the library system at the University. It was used as ancillary accommodation for the library in the Gilbert Scott Building until the construction of the current Library in the late 1960s.
Continuing to change with the times and demands, the Reading Room service was transferred to the Main Library and the building now houses a student help-desk and IT Education Unit.