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This is my library and office area... That "desk" is really a dining room table that I fell in love with-
back to the secret library garden after i picked up my current "hold"....art of the spirit...by robert henri. this book was first published in 1930. i have 24 library books checked out. this is the second copy i have of this same book. i don't quite know how that happened but i must have thought it was a different book by him.
i need to learn NOT to check out so many books at one time.
i could not use the "self check out" on this one because it's so old...had to take it to the librarian...which would be fine except they always want to print out the entire list of the books i have out. i always say "please don't do that...it's embarrassing to see the thing keep printing and printing" ....
and they always laugh but tell me they WANT me to be use the library.
Books are on a continuous spiral on levels 6-9. Floor mats have corresponding Dewey Decimal numbers so you know where you are.
with Brian Raszka www.flickr.com/photos/brianraszka/
for the library www.flickr.com/groups/69401973@N00/
the original Brian sent is here - www.flickr.com/photos/brianraszka/313219695/
The library’s collection of Oversize Books is the last shelf of Circulating Books, immediately after the Zs. This area contains books too large for regular circulation shelving. Often these books contain pictures and photos. They are good resources for graphics and images.
Oversize Books use the same A to Z organization as the rest of the Circulating Book Collection.
If you still do not understand how the A to Z subject classification system works, ask a librarian to further explain the Library of Congress system to you.
The library was opened by the Queen in 1962, replacing the nearby former Carnegie Library of 1908. This view from the car park above The Arndale Centre was taken in 1984. The Co-op store in the background has long-gone, replaced by the Galaxy cinema complex, whilst I think that the Strathmore Hotel in the foreground closed late last year. Note the row of K8 telephone boxes down below.
Mamiya C220/80mm
Ilford FP4
iPhone Photo: At Falkland Palace, home of James V and his daughter, Mary I, Queen of Scots. Not great quality because of the angle towards the light, but you weren't allowed any further into the room - it was roped off at the door - and this is the longest my arm could reach and still take a straight-ish photo with ye olde iphone 3g :)
I love old-style study/libraries. The word "study" these days tends to just mean a desk and a computer, with maybe a few files/books/texts around. But here there are ceiling-high shelves of leatherbound books in a wonderful array of colours, and the room has a desk, chair and a comfy sofa covered in cushions and a fireplace that I imagine on a cold, windy Scottish winter evening would be the best thing about this cosy room. Lovely flickering golden light to read by as well.
And then of course, there's the secret door in the bookshelf - what decent castle is without one?? Unfortunately, as I said, visitors weren't allowed into the room itself, so the room on the other side remains undiscovered to all but the imagination.
© Jan Sluijter Photography
TU Delft - Library
Het markante gebouw van TU Delft Library is een ontwerp van Mecanoo architecten. Eigenlijk is het niet alleen een gebouw, maar ook een landschap.
Symbool voor techniek
Het grasveld wordt aan een punt opgetild en ondersteund door kolommen. De grote hal die zo ontstaat, is voorzien van glazen gevels. De helling wordt doorbroken door een lome trap die naar de entree leidt. Een enorme kegel priemt door het beloopbare grasdak. De kegel staat symbool voor techniek en geeft vorm aan de ronde, introverte leeszalen.
Immense boekenkast
De boeken zijn uitgestald in een immense boekenkast, die zich uitstrekt van de begane grond tot aan het plafond van de vierde verdieping. De plaatsing van boeken, tijdschriften en computers is afgestemd op de baan van het licht.
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Where i spend many mornings pricing and organizing used books for our Friends of the Bethlehem Library organization. It's a tight squeeze and the book carts help-we roll them out to a bigger room during our sales.
Happy Birthday to me! I ordered some cupcakes for my birthday and Michelle from Clever Cupcakes (www.clevercupcakes.com) decorated them in a library theme!
Stack deck 29 -- Jefferson Building -- Library of Congress -- Holding area for books dealing with Belize.
The Richvale Library opened in 1983, replacing a smaller library on the same site. About 8,000 square feet in size it was designed by architect Philip Carter to blend into the community around it.
It's a particulary airy space, like a living room that just happens to provide you with a great collection of books, CD's, videos, and magazines, as well as comfortable spaces to sit and read, with a friendly and knowledgeable staff to help you find what you want. Programs and storytime sessions for children are run throughout the year.
40 Pearson Avenue, Richmond Hill L4C 6T7
(West of Yonge Street, South of Carville Road)
Telephone: 905.889.2847
Margolies, John,, photographer.
School, Funspot mini golf, Route 3, Weirs Beach, New Hampshire
1984.
1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format).
Notes:
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
Purchase; John Margolies 2010 (DLC/PP-2010:191).
Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation.
Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008).
Subjects:
Miniature golf--1980-1990.
United States--New Hampshire--Weirs Beach.
Format: Slides--1980-1990.--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see "John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive - Rights and Restrictions Information" www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/723_marg.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Margolies, John John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (DLC) 2010650110
General information about the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.mrg
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.03088
Call Number: LC-MA05- 3088
This is a little old university library along the Rua da Escola Politécnica. I just popped in and took pictures. Looks beautiful, well maintained.
I took this picure in the UIUC undergraduate library. Luckily, the book I was looking for was still on a shelf, so I didn't have to navigate the piles.
This now takes over as my favourite house photographed so far....that is, the house I'd buy :)
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Far bedroom bounced off one of the walls.
That middle space was all ambient and was windowed on both side so was really bright.
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Bounced off ceiling above camera then a second exposure with the flash bounced off ceiling at the other end of this room and hand blended in to give some nice shadows etc.
I'm not 100% happy with the ceiling, I tried using a ambient frame but it just looked wrong...
Books filed according to an AGS Classification scheme based on Geography. They return classed using the LC system which is topical first, then geographical. Notice the books are shelved end to end on each shelf.
Visited by members of the Libraries Taskforce team.
Photo credit: Julia Chandler/Libraries Taskforce
A sculpture involving books and water in front of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library.
Chattanooga, Tn.
University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton
The Library, 1964.
It was my daughter's Applicants' Day at the University of Sussex, so we headed down to Brighton. It is more than thirty years since I was a student there, and I haven't set foot on the campus since, until yesterday.
The University was one of the dozen or so new campus universities of the 1960s, mostly set in the grounds of former Big Houses (in Sussex's case, Stanmer Park) and designed by leading architects of the day. At Sussex this was Sir Basil Spence, who had recently completed Coventry Cathedral. The idea was a red brick Italianate hill village, climbing up into the South Downs, designed for about 2,500 students, though there are probably four times that many now.
I was never really very happy at Sussex, although as Philip Larkin observed of Coventry, it's not the place's fault after all. I was a post-graduate education student, and I had done my first degree in the centre of lovely, friendly Sheffield. I had partly chosen the University because the family of a girlfriend of the time had recently moved to Brighton (the University's high reputation was no doubt secondary). As you will no doubt have guessed, the relationship had ended before I arrived at Sussex.
Everybody seems to love Brighton, and they can't understand it when I say that I don't, but I was too miserable there. Brighton, for me, will be forever associated with debt, and with the transience of being a student. There has never been a time in my life, before or since, when I have been so poor. And then, extraordinarily, a brief, doomed relationship, a love affair, became the one vivid thing, a brief, sweet memory of my year in that brash town.
How narrow was the single bed we shared, how intense those brief few weeks. And she loved me more than I could possibly have loved her, for I had already met the woman who would become my wife. And so it was messy, and then it ended. My most dramatic memory of our time together is of leaving her flat shortly before daylight on an October morning and cycling back to my own house only to be stopped by a police roadblock, because the IRA had bombed the Grand Hotel half an hour earlier.
The University campus has expanded since I was there, but is still entirely graspable. The wide-open spaces and reflections of water under arches that Basil Spence aimed at are now overwhelmed by blocks in the same red brick but without any life to them whatsoever. I thought it was a shame. And yet, the campus still has the intensely intellectual vibe of a major University sequestered in the hills, the thrill of promise and the energy of youth. In some ways it was good to be back.
with Brian Raszka www.flickr.com/photos/brianraszka/
for the library www.flickr.com/groups/69401973@N00/
the original Brian sent is here - www.flickr.com/photos/brianraszka/313219695/