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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).
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.
A glass box within a box. Christopher Center for Library and Information Resources, Valparaiso University. EHDD, Architects. 2005.
Photographed with a Nikkor PC 28mm f/3.5 shift lens. Processed with Apple Aperture 2.1.
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.
Graphology for All - A Key to the Character Reading Of Handwriting (1916) - Graphique
Uses a large number of autographs from prominent individuals, including Lord Nelson, Queen Victoria, Cromwell, Oscar Wilde, etc. to describe how to evaluate personality via handwriting.
Choice quote:
"Not at all a favourable impression is created by the study of Oscar Wilde's handwriting -- quite the reverse, in fact. Strikingly and immediately obvious stand forth the very bad traits, gross extravagance (denoted by the unnecessarily wide spread of the characters -- three small words in a line across a sheet of ordinary note paper), and the glaring, unmistakable stamp of insincerity revealed by the half written "I remain truly yours," almost insinuating untruly yours!
Disregard for accuracy, spacing, malformation of words, and disconnected letters plainly show us indifference, lack of energy, weakness and considerable carelesness; a most slovenly, indolent individual, this, with no respect for the patience or eyesight of others upon whom he inflicted his hieroglyphics..."
No digital copy available.
[Windermere, from summit, Lake District, England]
[between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900].
1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
Notes:
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J--foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905.
Print no. "10741".
Forms part of: Views of the British Isles, in the Photochrom print collection.
Subjects:
England--Windermere.
Format: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Views of the British Isles (DLC) 2002696059
More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.08527
Call Number: LOT 13415, no. 540 [item]
William Byron Mowery - The Phantom Canoe
Popular Library 103, 1946
Cover Artist: IM-HO
(IM-HO being the 'signature' for Immerman and Hoffman or Immerman and Holley)
A novel of the Canadian Northwest
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.
[taken from their description]