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One place I always love to visit is the library. Next to photography I also love reading! I know that in some cultures borrowing books is a sign of poverty, but in Holland it is not :-) And if I had bought all the books I read, I need to extend our house. So hurray for the library!!
Our main library, called DOK Centrum, can best be described as a media center that combines three unique collections: Music and Film, Literature, and Art.
From the internet 'In December 2009 DOK won the 'Best library of the Netherlands' award and was voted to be the 'most modern library in the world' by USA research.'
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Most of the recordings in Stu's Music Library were purchased in the 70s and 80s, They cover music from the 20s onward. The collection contains about 600 vinyl disks.
Explore #428 - Jan 5, 2008
The sun was streaming in on my sister's library desk and I couldn't resist taking this photo. Best seen in large view (click on all sizes).
The Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design, designed by Monica Ponce de Leon & Nader Tehrani of Office dA (now NADAAA) inside the historic Rhode Island Hospital Trust National Bank building (York & Sawyer, 1917)
Providence, Rhode Island.
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Nos visitaron alumnos del programa English for Journalism. En una visita guiada en inglés, les informamos sobre distintos recursos de la biblioteca para practicar ese idioma e investigar.
In 1996 in view of the approaching 450th anniversary of Catechismus by Martynas Mažvydas a tender was launched with the aim of perpetuating the place in which the first Lithuanian book is kept.
The tender was awarded to a sculptor Jonas Meškelevičius who proposed to create a memorial entrance door to the Vilnius University Library by depicting major events of the Lithuanian culture and some of its eminent figures.
Upon the Rector's decree a Commission was set up including prof. Benediktas Juodka, prof. Domas Kaunas, prof. Algirdas Šidlauskas, prof. Vygintas Bronius Pšibilskis, prof. Eugenija Ulčinaitė, Director of the VU Library Birutė Butkevičienė and Deputy Director Irena Krivienė. The members of the Commission had to decide what events had to be represented on the Door.
Based on the Commission's proposal the following bronze images have been cast at the top of the door:
Kristupas Radvila Našlaitėlis, the founder of a printing house in Vilnius in 1575, (later - Vilnius Academy printing house (1585 m.) who in 1613 published the first original map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae caeterarumque …;
Vilnius bishop Valerijonas Protasevičius, who in 1570 founded the Vilnius Jesuit College and its Library;
the Pope Gregory XIII, who on October 29, 1579 confirmed by the bull the establishment of the Vilnius University;
Cardinal Jurgis Radvila, Maecenas of the University, who addressed the Pope asking him to grant the rights of the Academy to the Vilnius College;
Sigismundus Augustus, the Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, who donated his personal collection of books (4 - 5 thousand volumes) to the newly established Library ;
the Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland Stephan Batory, who on April 1, 1579 issued a charter allowing for the reorganisation of the Vilnius Jesuit College into the Academy and the University.
Right in the middle one can see the University's coat of arms, below it the inscription which reads: To the first Lithuanian book 1547-1997.
On the upper part of the bronze door the first page of M. Mažvydas' Catechismus is depicted; next to it - Mikalojus Daukša's Postilė, slightly below views of the two universities - Konigsberg and Vilnius - can be seen;
Also depicted are: Konstantinas Sirvydas - the first Lithuanian linguist,
Kristijonas Donelaitis - the progenitor of the Lithuanian literature,
Simonas Daukantas - the father of the Lithuanian history,
Motiejus Valančius - a Lithuanian enlightener;
Jonas Basanavičius, Jurgis Bielinis, Vincas Kudirka, Vaclovas Biržiška, Mykolas Biržiška, Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas - all of the prominent figures of the Lithuanian history of culture and men of letters.
The door handles depict brownies said to bring prosperity to people and their homes.
At the bottom of the Door there are words from the book by the poet Justinas Marcinkevičius "Tree of Knowledge":
To those men, who fostered the Lithuanian Word
To those books, that rocked our cradle
www.eparodos.mb.vu.lt/kiemeliai/vu/bibliotekoskiemas/info...
Oxford Union Library. Located in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom. In and around the grounds of University of Oxford.
The national library was built in honour of His Majesty the King of Thailand. The historically site was once the city hall of Nakhon Phanom. It was constructed by the inmates of the provincial prison. The blueprint for this building was a copy of Chiang Rai province city hall. The western style infrastructure was once demolished by cannon balls fired from French Battleships during a dispute between Thailand (Siam) and France. The association of Siamese Architects has awarded the Pavilion for its excellent conservation.
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