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Couldn't get a decent shot of this model. See the underground chamber? Those are book stacks. Amazing technology for protecting, storing & accessing.
Yann Sérandour
Bookstack, 2005.
Photo by Original&theCopy.
Courtesy of the artist, Collection Cypanga, Paris, gb agency and Tenderpixel.
Sterling Memorial Library (SML) is the main library building of the Yale University Library system in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Opened in 1931, the library was designed by James Gamble Rogers as the centerpiece of Yale's Gothic Revival campus. The library's tower has sixteen levels of bookstacks containing over 4 million volumes. Several special collections—including the university's Manuscripts & Archives—are also housed in the building. It connects via tunnel to the underground Bass Library, which holds an additional 150,000 volumes.
The library is named for John W. Sterling, a lawyer representing Standard Oil, whose huge bequest to Yale required that an "enduring, useful and architecturally beautiful edifice" be built. Sterling Library is elaborately ornamented, featuring extensive sculpture and painting as well as hundreds of panes of stained glass created by G. Owen Bonawit. In addition to the book tower, Rogers' design featured five large reading rooms and two courtyards, one of which is now a music library.
(From Wikipedia)
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Charlene Schillinger, left, starts to paint the window at The Bookstack while Samone Riddle flips a paint brush on Wednesday. The Staunton Downtown Development Association has solicited women artists to fill empty downtown storefronts with artwork for a Friday launch. Photos taken in downtown Staunton on Wednesday, June 23 2010.