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Taken for the Jules Photo Challenge.
March 2 - World Book Day
My wife's project actually, to have a little free library outside the house. We have a bookcase on the porch, but are in the works on getting one built for closer to the road.
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.
2012 SAPF Accepted - Open Projected
9/10 Open Projected, April 2012, Port Adelaide CC
The building now known as the Mortlock Wing was opened on 18 December 1884 as a Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery for the colony of South Australia with 23,000 books and a staff of three.
Construction of the building took over 18 years to complete after the initial foundations were laid in 1866.
The foundation stone was laid on 7 November 1879 by Sir William Jervois and the building was constructed by Brown and Thompson at a total cost of £43,897.
The building is French Renaissance in style with a mansard roof. The walls are constructed of brick with Sydney freestone facings with decorations in the darker shade of Manoora stone.
The interior has two galleries, the first supported by masonry columns, and the second by cast iron brackets. The balconies feature wrought iron balustrading ornamented with gold while the glass-domed roof allows the chamber to be lit with natural light. Two of the original gas "sunburner" lamps survive in the office space located on the second floor at the southern end.(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Library_of_South_Australia)
3 photos, bracketed and processed in Photomatix
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.
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.
PCA204 - Architectural Photography—Exterior
WIT:
This is a partial view of the Denver Public Library. I brought the ND filter, but I didn’t have the remote on me, so I took this image with a finger on the shutter release for 117 seconds. It probably shows. It’s not as crisp as I would like. I boosted the contrast a little, sharpened, and cropped the image to 8x10 dimensions.
14mm, f/22, 117 sec., ISO-160
This one is in the parking lot at Campbell's Junction, a small commercial settlement a mile or so from our house. Polaroid I-2, I-Type Black & White film.
I found this Little Free Library while driving in a nearby neighborhood. Take a book, leave a book. Such a great service.
The 135 AD Library of Celsus left and the 40 AD Gate of Mazeus and Mithridates right stand at the focal point of the ancient city of Ephesus, Turkey.
University of Washington, Seattle
My wife and I recently toured the University of Washington mainly to see the cherry blossoms. If you would like to read more about our visit and see more photos, check out my post Cherry Blossoms Beckon to the University of Washington at my blog Batteredsuitcase.net
The internet has certainly taken a toll on the use of public libraries. They don't even teach people how to become a librarian, anymore. It's called progress (The building pictured is now The Petaluma Library Museum in Downtown Petaluma, Ca.).
The main entrance to Bristol's central Library. It seems as if there are fewer books inside than there used to be and the section for encyclopedias, dictionary's etc. seemed to have gone. So much easier to Google for things now!