Library photos on Flickr

I found sunlight's Innovative creative beauty in public library children's section. This indoor rainbow is from cheap crepe paper blocking out harsh south sunlight as high temperatures average 95-100+ on most summer afternoons in deep South Texas U.S.A. .

While showing off this foto, my visitor # 25,000 arrived on Dec. 9, 2007. Thanks to each of you for continuing to share joy, beauty, creativity, and art with this newbie to FLICKR..

EXPLORE # 100 on Monday, December 10, 2007, for 12-09.

Seattle Public Library by Ron Miller

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Different from my other work, I still can't help but like this shot. It's from the interior of the Seattle Public Library. Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus of OMA/LMN were the principal architects.

by Li-Ta Lo

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A Clean Well Lighted Place For Books by sarah springer.

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#inspirational Flickr 21 Challenge

I used to go to a bookstore with that name.

The library is a great place to find books that are inspirational.

Travel, cooking , biography, mystery, etc.

the library :) by green_lover (I wait for your COMMENTS!)

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Now we are going to the library :)

The library building was designed in 1920 by the southern California architect Myron Hunt in the Mediterranean Revival style. The library contains a substantial collection of rare books and manuscripts, concentrated in the fields of British and American history, literature, art, and the history of science. Highlights include one of copies of the Gutenberg Bible (from 1455), and letters and manuscripts by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln. It also holds the manuscript of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography and Isaac Newton's personal copy of his "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" with annotations in Newton's own hand. The library's main exhibition hall showcases some of the most outstanding rare books and manuscripts in the collection, while the West Hall of the library hosts rotating exhibitions.

The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington and his wife in San Marino, California. In addition to the library, the institution houses an extensive art collection with a focus on 18th and 19th century European art and 17th to mid-20th century American art. The property also has specialized botanical landscaped gardens. The Huntington's botanical gardens cover 120 acres (49 ha) and showcase plants from around the world. The gardens are divided into more than a dozen themes, including the Australian Garden, Camellia Collection, Desert Garden, Herb Garden, Japanese Garden, Lily Ponds, Palm Garden, Rose Garden, the Shakespeare Garden, Subtropical and Jungle Garden, and the Chinese Garden.

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Powoli zbliżamy się do biblioteki :)

Budynek biblioteki został zaprojektowany w 1920 roku przez architekta z południowej Kalifornii Myrona Hunta w stylu śródziemnomorskiego odrodzenia. Biblioteka zawiera pokaźny zbiór rzadkich książek i rękopisów, głównie z dziedziny brytyjskiej i amerykańskiej historii, literatury, sztuki i historii nauki. Najważniejsze pozycje w zbiorach to jedna z kopii Biblii Gutenberga (z 1455 r.) oraz listy i rękopisy George'a Washingtona, Thomasa Jeffersona, Benjamina Franklina i Abrahama Lincolna. Biblioteka posiada też rękopis autobiografii Benjamina Franklina i osobistą kopię "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica "Isaaca Newtona z własnoręcznymi adnotacjami autora. W głównej sali wystawowej biblioteki prezentowane są jedne z najwybitniejszych rzadkich książek i rękopisów w kolekcji, podczas gdy w zachodniej sali biblioteki odbywają się wystawy rotacyjne.

Biblioteka Huntingtona, Muzeum Sztuki i Ogrody Botaniczne to instytucja edukacyjna i badawcza oparta na zbiorach, założona przez Henry'ego E. Huntingtona i jego żonę w San Marino w Kalifornii. Oprócz biblioteki instytucja posiada bogatą kolekcję dzieł sztuki, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem sztuki europejskiej XVIII i XIX wieku oraz sztuki amerykańskiej od XVII do połowy XX wieku. Wokół biblioteki rozciągają się specjalistyczne ogrody botaniczne, które zajmują powierzchnię ok. 49 ha i prezentują rośliny z całego świata. Ogrody są podzielone na kilkanaście tematów, w tym ogród australijski, kolekcja kamelii, ogród pustynny, ogród ziołowy, ogród japoński, stawy liliowe, ogród palmowy, ogród różany, ogród szekspirowski, ogród subtropikalny i dżungla oraz ogród chiński.

Love Library, SDSU by TMVissers

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Domed expansion/addition by architects Mosher Drew was completed in 1997. Original library project completed in 1970, and named for university president Malcolm A. Love in 1971.

Library by Futzliputzli

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In the Library by Andrew Wertheimer

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Take your RD-1 to Campus Day

Central Library by Gaz 1984

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Library by jim pykonen

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This is Vancouver, Washington's latest addition to the library system I photographed about 2 years ago.

Library Interior 2 by awells002

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library by Nicole Staniewski (wandelwelten-photografie)

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Library of Birmingham, UK by Raminta Simkute

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by Evangelina

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Library Terminus, Birmingham by Jeremy de Souza LRPS

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Panorama mode on the iPhone required, as normal photo just couldn’t get wide enough to include the tram and the Library building together

John Rylands Library by Richardr

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Library by Julian Lopez Perdiz

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Woman looking at books

library by Rof Noirceur

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Library of Ephesus by |neurosis|

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Library of Celso in Ephesus by Maurizio Esitini

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The library of Celsus is an ancient Roman building in Ephesus, Anatolia, now part of Selçuk, Turkey. It was built in honour of the Roman Senator Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus[ (completed in 135 AD) by Celsus' son, Gaius Julius Aquila (consul, 110 AD). The library was built to store 12,000 scrolls and to serve as a mausoleum for Celsus, who is buried in a crypt beneath the library.

The interior of the library was destroyed, supposedly by an earthquake in 262 A.D., and the façade by another earthquake in the tenth or eleventh century A.D. It lay in ruins for centuries, until the façade was re-erected (anastylosis) by archaeologists between 1970 and 1978. (From Wikipedia)

Library Stuttgart / Germany by Sascha Schmidt

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"Library Stacks" by C.J. Peiffer

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Photo of the stacks of the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, through what used to be exterior windows. (The library was opened in 1898.)

This photo was taken from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's dinosaur exhibit room.

Note that the ceilings here (and the floors of each story above them) are made from very thick greenish frosted glass which allows the light from each floor above to help light the floor below. The two lower-right windows show some of the large double-sided bookcases.

The windows have window seats where two patrons seem to be hanging out, away from the action in the main part of the library.

Library of Birmingham by Ethika Rahman

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The other side. Actually I was lost and was going round and round around the library!

Birmingham, UK 2017

Library Card Catalog by Jovan J

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Vancouver Public Library - Central Branch

350 W Georgia St, Vancouver, BC V6B 6B1, Canada

Lewis Library Colors by Steve Newfield

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This was a section of an outside wall at the Lewis Library on the Princeton campus.

Gulf Gate Library by Richard Clapp

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Sarasota's newest library

Library #6 by Tony F

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Inside the Library by jed52400

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Queanbeyan Library by longreach

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The new Queanbeyan Library (2024). Photographed for the BookSpaces project - www.frame49.photography .

Some reviewers have asked why I do not include more people in my library photographs, after all, a library is worthless unless there are people to borrow items. A modern library is more than a storehouse for books.

Most libraries impose limits on my BookSpaces photography. More often than not, the difficulties associated with including people in my photographs outweigh the benefits. Libraries do not have control over their patrons. It would be too disruptive to seek permission from every person likely to be in shot.

I am planning to have models work with me in future shoots - to make these spaces look more inhabited.

Helsinki Library by BarnNightOwl

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20091204_Hermitage_library_002 by Christopher John SSF

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Library, Hermitage of st Bernardine, Stroud, NSW

Juristische Bibliothek München by migulein

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im Rathaus

My library by Alan Cleaver

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And on National Library Day - a celebration too of the home libraries. This is my library (or second home as I like to call it) in Whitehaven, Cumbria UK. Candles and paraffin lamps offer mood lighting, there are automatons, plants, a train set (centre shelf) and can you spot the secret compartment?!

Library by Fernando García

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The Well of Books by Farhiz Karanjawala

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Art sculpture by Matej Kren. Installed in the lobby of the Municipal Library on Mariánské námesti, Prague.

Seattle central library by Freyja H.

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The 11-story glass and steel building in downtown Seattle, Washington was opened to the public on Sunday, May 23, 2004. The building was designed by the dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and has a unique, striking appearance, consisting of several discrete "floating platforms" seemingly wrapped in a large steel net around glass skin.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Central_Library

Liverpool Central Library by Colin Gould

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Picton Reading Room

The doorway with the clock above it takes you into the Hornby Library ( named after Hugh Frederick Hornby ) which was added in 1906. It stands behind the older building and the interior is decorated in the Edwardian Imperial style.

Grinnell Library by Charles Steven

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Construction of Grinnell Library was completed in 1887. Grinnell hired a New York City architect, and supplied a list of architectural features he wanted to include. The tower is modeled after one he saw in St. Battenberg, Switzerland, and the way the second story overhangs the first recalls buildings he liked in Chester, England. More info at:

www.grinnell-library.org/index.php?option=com_content&...

At the Library by Vince Young

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Free Library, Main Branch, Philadelphia, PA

Private home reference library by Warwick Carter

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THIS LIBRARY NO LONGER EXISTS AS THE HOME HAS BEEN SOLD. NEW LIBRARY CAN BE SEEN AT:-

www.flickr.com/photos/warwick_carter/31963216037

Updated pictures of the library from Dec. 2016 can be seen at :-

www.flickr.com/photos/warwick_carter/31605738212/in/datep...

www.flickr.com/photos/warwick_carter/31605726832/in/datep...

www.flickr.com/photos/warwick_carter/31715139686/in/datep...