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A sculpture involving books and water in front of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library.
Chattanooga, Tn.
What if the #savelibraries campaign had taken place in World War One? How might it have been fought? I found some posters - some well known, others not - from the period and adapted them. I hope you enjoy them and find them useful.
N.S.W. Recruiting Committee, [1918]
1 poster : col. ; 74.3 x 50.4 cm.
Notes This image is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired. According to the Australian Copyright Council (ACC), ACC Information Sheet G023v14 (Duration of copyright) (Feb 2008).
Signed: "Harry J. Weston" -- l.r. corner.
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Australian_WWI_recruiting...
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/
To celebrate National Storytelling Week we are proud to present “On the Trail of the Hound – an evening of storytelling with Dominic Kelly” on Tuesday 8 February 2011 at 7pm at Heywood Library.
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Lady sitting on his groupmate's shoulders and taking books from the top of bookshelf in library. Students studying in library.
Olga has the most amazing library ever. Look closely at the Javanese window screen. It's very old. It has bats in it.
As part of the deal with membership in Etsymetal we agreed to write a blog about our process of design inspiration. Part of our process is our reference library of art books. This is one corner of one room in our house that is lined with books. There are three rooms filled with books on all aspects of art and design. We have built the collection over a period of 50 years. We are well versed in the use of the Internet, thank you. We'll keep our books.
The interior of Enrico Taglietti's 'Brutalist' St. Kilda Library (1971-3) in the Melbourne suburb of St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia.
There are college catalogs that you can check out of the library to the right of the Print & Copy Center, toward the windows on the east side, on shelves on the back wall.
There is also a file drawer listing the catalogs held in the library’s collection of circulating college catalogs.
The Career Center in Bussman Hall has a complete collection of catalogs for colleges in the United States.
No self-respecting library would be complete without a spiral staircase, so at the Instituto Geografico Militare, I began looking for one. And I found one, back in the corner, kind of out of the way., but important nonetheless.
To see the 3-D, use red/cyan glasses.
To read the QR code in the picture, use your smart phone and a scanner app. To find out more about QR codes, go to www.fredtruck.com, choose the Articles menu item, and select the Seals option.
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Also, check out my video on YouTube, Milk Bottle Reliquary. You will find it here:
We had students test their potions knowledge...they had to smell each ingredient and guess what it was.
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It's still a little early for full color but I didn't know that till I made a trip over.. Will try again in a few days...Lord willing and the creek don't rise....
Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Publication:
Produced: [between 1960 and 1969?]
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
MEDLARS,
Abstracting and Indexing as Topic,
Librarians,
National Library of Medicine, (U.S.). Index Section.,
National Library of Medicine (U.S.).
Genre(s):
Photographs
Abstract:
Image caption on page 96 of the book US National Library of Medicine: "The Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) vocabulary was quickly adopted by medical libraries for cataloging their own collections. MEDLARS - the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System - was an equally significant accomplishment for the library. Establishing an online version of the system as MEDLINE (MEDLARS Online), in the early 1970s, opened it up to more medical librarians around the country, and later to the world. Together MeSH and MEDLINE proved to be invaluable tools for medical research. By the 1970s, staff members of the library and in medical libraries around the country were entering MeSH vocabulary into networked MEDLINE computer terminals to find relevant journal articles to answer patron inquiries both onsite and remotely. Indexers required in-depth knowledge in a wide variety of disciplines. Staff members might be called upon to review literature from any branch of science or medicine, and they often kept at their desks reference copies of textbooks, medical dictionaries, and foreign language dictionaries."
Related Title(s):
US National Library of Medicine
Extent:
1 photograph : 21 x 26 cm
Technique:
black and white
NLM Unique ID:
101445999
NLM Image ID:
A017406
Permanent Link:
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The new docklands library. The structure is a structural timber. Not steel or concrete.
Clearly the bollards on the (now a) promenade (previously a working wharf) are pointless - no doubt there was an urban design decision that retaining them would "hold the memory" of the previously life of this once hard working place. Instead, this is the financial head quarters of Australia - So while there are people working hard here, they work hardest to make sure you don't get ahead. There is a great book review here on an expose on Wall Street
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