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Now this is my kind of city!
This is a monument on Unter den Linden celebrating the invention of the printing press. The vehicle in front of the bookstack is a "velotaxi".
I was walking through the bookstacks in the library, and I just happened to walk past the Edinburgh section!
I'm moving there in September!!!!!!!!!
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard published by Walter Scott of Bradford.
The New Bodleian Library
This Grade II Listed building was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in the 1930's, and its architecture is vague - part classical, part modernist, part Arts and Crafts, part prison block.
It is generally agreed that the building is not among Scott's most successful designs. Nikolaus Pevsner dismisses it as "Neither one thing nor the other".
The Rockefeller Foundation donated 60% of the £1 million cost for the new library building. It included administrative and reading rooms, together with an 11-storey bookstack beneath the building. This was connected underground with the original Bodleian Library by an conveyor belt system for books. It is still possible to walk underground between the Radcliffe Camera and the new library building.
The Weston Library
In the early 21st century, the building was rebuilt internally behind its original façade to provide improved storage facilities for rare and fragile material, as well as better facilities for readers and visitors.
It re-opened to readers as the Weston Library on the 21st. March 2015. Richard Ovenden (Bodley's Librarian) awarded the Bodley Medal to Professor Stephen Hawking and to Sir David Attenborough as part of the official opening ceremony.
The transformed library has been generally well-received, being described as a "Hey presto moment for the city" by The Independent newspaper.
"Collection Interface Zone" display units and wide aisles draw patrons into the bookstacks and encourage them to engage the collections.
April 2, 2022 - The Grand Reading Room at the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library on the campus of The Ohio State University.
Outliers / Malcolm Caldwell }| A year of wonders / Geraldine Brooks | The thirteenth tale / Diane Setterfield
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Development Consultant Kenya Rutland from KJR Consulting in Manchester, CT - "Boolies in the Bookstacks"
These are a few of the books I'm currently reading, just finished, or about to start.
Uprising by Erwin McManus
Raising a Modern Day Knight by Robert Lewis
More Letters From a Nut by Ted L. Nancy
Getting Real by 37 Signals
The Blogging Church by Brian Bailey
Learning jQuery by Jonathan Chaffer and Karl Swedberg
This was one of my all-time favorite toys--and yes, I'm fully aware that this is the Burger King kid's meal toy from 1991. When I was in 8th grade.
What you don't know is that I wanted this toy so badly, and didn't have it, and finally purchased it my senior year of college.
I thought it was fun to use the bookstacks from the Librarian Action Figure deluxe set to stand him on. After all, the Beast has one killer library.
The British Museum Reading Room, located at the heart of the Great Court, was designed by Sydney Smirke and opened in 1857 to house the growing library of the British Museum. Constructed of cast iron, concrete, and a papier-mâché dome inspired by the Pantheon, the room’s circular design accommodated thousands of books and readers, with surrounding iron bookstacks and forty kilometers of shelving. It served as the principal reading room of the British Library until the collection relocated to St Pancras in 1997. After restoration, the Reading Room reopened in 2000 for general visitors, later hosting major exhibitions from 2007 to 2013 before closing for archival use until reopening in 2023.
The British Museum, located in Bloomsbury, London, was established in 1753 and opened in 1759 as the world’s first national public museum. Originally housed in Montagu House, it now occupies a grand neoclassical building designed by Sir Robert Smirke, constructed between 1823 and 1852 on the same site. The museum’s encyclopedic collection of over eight million objects spans over two million years of human history, with major highlights including the Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, and the Sutton Hoo treasures--many of which remain the subject of ongoing repatriation discussions.