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Title: Centrale Bibliotheek
Other title: Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven Universiteitsbibliotheek; Central University Library; University Library Leuven; Central Library; Centrale Bibliotheek KU Leuven
Creator: Warren, Whitney, 1864-1943
Creator role: Architect
Date: 1921-1928 (original construction) 1999-2003 (restoration)
Current location: Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Flanders, Belgium
Description of work: "During the night of 25-26 August 1914, German soldiers set the fourteenth century University Hall and its eighteenth-century library wing ablaze. The act was part of the punishment of Leuven...in reprisal for attacks by alleged snipers. The blaze created 209 victims and razed more than 1,000 buildings to the ground" (Source: Coppens, Chris, Mark Derez and Jan Roegiers. Leuven University Library 1425-2000. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2005. p. 135). The attack on non-combatants and a location which housed historically significant artifacts resulted in global outrage with particularly strong reactions from academic institutions. In response the University Library was rebuilt, funded mostly by American money, at a new location as a symbol of Allied commitment to Belgian reconstruction. American architect Whitney Warren's design celebrated the triumphs of the region's architectural heritage and drew on revived interest in the Flemish Renaissance style. The library "had the contours of a town hall with a belltower and an arched gallery with ribbed vaults reminiscent of the palace of the prince-bishop of Liege. The large area of the steeply raked gable roof...[had] rows of dormers as in the Leuven town hall or the Tafelrond...Iron fleurons with copper globes and gilded gable ornaments like those on the guildhouses were an interpretation of the primeval desire for gilt. On the four corners came step gables with stone scrolls, the hallmark of the Flemish building style." (Source: Coppens, Chris, Mark Derez and Jan Roegiers. Leuven University Library 1425-2000. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2005, p. 220). During World War II the library became a target of German arsonists, their ire perhaps agitated in response to the uproar against the World War I era attack and a controversial "message to Germany" Warren wanted to, but ultimately did not, include in the balustrade. The second attack gutted the interior of the new library. Architect Henry Lacoste (1885-1968) oversaw the rebuilding of interiors.
Description of view: View of red brick rear facade illustrating repetitive step gables, balustrades and decorative patterns.
Work type: Architecture and Landscape
Style of work: Modern; Revival: Renaissance Revival
Culture: Belgian
Materials/Techniques: Brick
Stone
Source: Pisciotta, Henry (copyright Henry Pisciotta)
Date photographed: 2009
Resource type: Image
File format: JPEG
Image size: 3072H X 2304W pixels
Permitted uses: This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. Other uses are not permitted. For additional details see: www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/digital/copyright.html#archpublic
Collection: Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename: WB2013-0211 Central Library.jpg
Record ID: WB2013-0211
Sub collection: libraries
Copyright holder: Copyright Henry Pisciotta
English
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafra_National_Palace
The Rococo library, situated at the back of the second floor, is truly the highlight of this palace, rivalling the grandeur of the library of the Melk Abbey in Austria. Built by Manuel Caetano de Sousa, this library is 88 m long, 9.5 m wide and 13 m high. The magnificent floor is covered with tiles of rose, grey and white marble. The wooden bookshelves in Rococo style are situated on the sidewalls in two rows, separated by a balcony with a wooden railing. They contain over 35,000 leather-bound volumes, attesting of the extent of western knowledge from the 14th to the 19th century. Among them, are many valuable bibliographical jewels, such as incunabula. These beautiful finished volumes were bound in the local workshop (Livraria) in the rocaille style (also by Manuel Caetano de Sousa).
Besides natural techniques of conservation for the books, such as the lack of space between the wall and the book (so it doesn't create humidity), there are also a few bats that inhabit this library eating any insect that could destroy this invaluable treasure.
The Library was used in Gulliver's Travels (1996) as the Great Chamber of War for the Emperor of Lilliput.
Português
O maior tesouro de Mafra é a sua biblioteca, com chão em mármore, estantes em estilo rococó e uma coleção de mais de 36.000 livros com encadernações em couro gravadas a ouro,graças à acção da Ordem Franciscana, incluindo uma segunda edição de Os Lusíadas de Luís de Camões. Abrange áreas de estudo tão diversa como a medicina,farmácia,história,geografia e viagens,filosofia e teologia,direito canónico e direito civil,matemática,história natural,sermonária e literatura. Situada ao fundo do segundo piso é a estrela do palácio, rivalizando em grandiosidade com a Biblioteca da Abadia de Melk, na Áustria. Construida por Manuel Caetano de Sousa, tem 88 m de comprimento, 9.5 de largura e 13 de altura. O magnífico pavimento é revestido de mármore rosa, cinzento e branco. As estantes de madeira estilo rococó, situadas em duas filas laterais, separadas por um varandim contêm milhares de volumes encadernados em couro, testemunhando a extensão do conhecimento ocidental dos séculos XIV ao XIX. Entre eles muitas jóias bibliográficas, como incunábulos. Estes volumes magníficos foram encadernados na oficina local, também por Manuel Caetano de Sousa.
Celebrating Matariki 2019 at Linwood Library, Sunday 23 June 2019.
File reference: 2019-06-23-IMG_4262
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
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The Polo Reale contains a number of masterpieces of highest beauty. First of all it houses Leonardo da Vinci, with both his self-portrait, his word inconw (together with the Mona Lisa) and his Codex on the Flight of Birds, one of the most beautiful and important collections.
November 4, 2019 - Avalon Library Grand Re-Opening with County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisor Janice Hahn, 4th District. Avalon Library, part of LA County Library, is located on the island of Catalina. Photograph by Monica Almeida.
The Ian Dewhirst Memorial Collection cabinet in the Keighley Local Studies Library on the first floor of Keighley Public Library, 9th October 2021. Due to coronavirus safety restrictions, the Collection was unveiled by the Lord Mayor of Bradford, Councillor Doreen Lee, at a small, private ceremony with library staff, members of Ian’s family, and invited guests in the summer of 2020.
Cllr Sarah Ferriby, Executive Member for Healthy People and Places at Bradford Council, Keighley News, 20th July 2020: “Ian was a valued member of the library staff in Keighley, and highly respected as a local historian and by all who knew him in the town. He was a true inspiration to all and champion of Keighley Library and especially Local Studies where he would make regular visits for his research. Our plans for celebrating his contribution to the work of the Council’s library service and the wider community were interrupted by the pandemic, but now that the library has his full collection in place, we don’t want to wait any longer to commemorate him. We hope that this memorial will ensure that future generations will remember Ian and the invaluable work he did within Keighley and the wider community.”
Ian Dewhirst (1936-2019) was an acclaimed local historian. He made an invaluable contribution to preserving, cataloguing and recounting the history of the town. During his life he wrote many articles and books on the town, and gave thousands of talks and tours to various societies and groups, including the History Society. He was born in Keighley in 1936 and he attended Keighley Boys’ Grammar School between 1948 and 1955.
At school his talent for poetry flourished and he saw various poems published in the school magazine ‘The Keighlian’. He graduated from the University of Manchester in 1958 with a degree in English. He did his National Service as a Sergeant-Instructor in the Royal Army Educational Corps from 1958 to 1960.
He started working at Keighley Library in 1960 and was promoted to Reference Librarian in 1967, a role he fulfilled until retirement in 1991. During that time he wrote ‘A History of Keighley’, published by the Keighley Corporation in 1974, and reprinted several times since. Other publications included ‘The Handloom Weaver and other poems’ (1965), ‘The Haworth Water-Wolf and other Yorkshire stories’ (1967), ‘Scar Top and other poems’ (1968), ‘Gleanings from Victorian Yorkshire’ (1972), ‘Old Keighley in Photographs’ (1972), ‘More Old Keighley in Photographs’ (1973), ‘Gleanings from Edwardian Yorkshire’ (1975), ‘Yorkshire Through the Years’ (1975), ‘The Story of a Nobody: a Working Class Life 1880-1939’ (1980), ‘You Don’t Remember Bananas… A Pennine Half-Century’ (1985), ‘Keighley in Old Picture Postcards’ (1987), ‘Keighley in the 1930s & 40s’ (1989), ‘Victorian Keighley Characters’ (1990), ‘In the Reign of the Peacemaker: Keighley and District in Edwardian Photographs’ (1993), ‘Down Memory Lane’ (1993), ‘A Century of Yorkshire Dialect’ (with Arnold Kellett, 1997), ‘Keighley in the Second World War’ (2005), and ‘Nah Then! A Treasury of Yorkshire Dialect Quotations’ (2010).
Ian began writing the popular ‘Memory Lane’ column for the Keighley News in 1992 and carried on doing so right up until his death. In 1996, he was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Bradford. And in February 1999, he was awarded an MBE by the Queen for his services to local history, at a ceremony held at Buckingham Palace. In 2009 he had a Northern Rail 158 diesel train named after him. In 2018, the Dalesman awarded him the W. R. Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his prolific work as a local historian and public speaker.
He spent almost his whole life in Keighley, living in his parents’ former home on Raglan Avenue, off Fell Lane. He served on the Council of the Yorkshire Dialect Society and spent time as secretary of the Friends of Cliffe Castle Museum and Art Gallery. He died on 20th January 2019 and his funeral service was held at Trinity Church, Fell Lane, on 15th February, followed by a private cremation.
Photographed by History Society member Tim Neal. Permission to use is granted to Keighley and District Local History Society.
The interior of the Library of Celsus, Ephesus, Izmir, Turkey, 25 October 2009. The library was completed in the c.120-130 AD and was the third largest in the Roman Empire after Alexandria and Pergamum. Its contents and much of its fabric was destroyed by the Goths in 263 AD and the facade collapsed after an earthquake in the 10th Century. It was re-erected in 1970-78. Ephesus was first established on the site of a Hittite settlement (Apasa) on Ayasuluk Hill by Attic and Ionian Greeks in the 10th Century BC. In c.300 BC the population moved from the hill to a new, coastal location (of the present ruins) founded by Lysimakhos, one of Alexander the Great’s generals. In 129 BC Ephesus, as part of the Greek Kingdom of Pergamon, fell to the Romans and subsequently became capital of the Roman Province of Asia Minor. However, in 263 AD the city was destroyed by the Goths. Although rebuilt, its port began to silt up and then in 614 AD Ephesus was destroyed by an earthquake. Despite being rebuilt again, sackings by Arabs in 655, 700 and 716 and the continuing silting up of the port resulted in the populace gradually moving back to Ayasuluk Hill.
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32nd President of the United States
1882-1945
Library and Museum
Hyde Park, NY
Built in 117 AD by the governor Gaius Julius Aquila in dedication to his father. It was the third biggest ancient library after Alexandria and Perganum. It was first destroyed in an earthquake in 262 where all books burned, and then completely by another earthquake later
The Library of Parliament in Ottawa glows in the light of the setting sun.
Photographed using a Sony NEX 5N using the Voigtlander 15mm f/4.5 lens.
VISUAL LIBRARIES - Leave your Mark.
A collaborative, visual project which encourages you to sign out a Visual Library Book and ‘Leave Your Mark’.
A Visual Library Book is whatever you want it to be, a sketchbook, a journal, a diary, a notepad.
You can ‘Leave Your Mark’ in whatever way you want, ranging from drawing, writing, sewing, adding photographs, markings, printing and sticking. How you make your marks is entirely up to you. All we ask is that you have fun with the different themes. Just borrow it on your library card with other books and materials. If you are not already a member, just ask the staff to help you.
45 Visual Library Books have been placed in Portsmouth Central Library and each has its own theme ranging from; Portsmouth, My City, When I Open My Eyes, Whilst I Was Waiting, Love, What’s in My Pocket and Memories. The intention is for you to feel free to explore the Visual Library Books and choose a theme that you like.
In Association with: Rhodia, Seawhite, Portsmouth City Council, University of Portsmouth, COPIC Pens
For Further Details: claire.sambrook@port.ac.uk
Hillside had some very unique building techniques implemented when built. The library shelves make up the walls on the far side, seen here. I remember it being much darker inside, with it's 70's era architecture. Three books I distinctly remember reading a lot: on great disasters, weapons of the US Military, and Bigfoot. Go figure.
Librarian and man of letters.
In 1839 he worked in the British Museum on the new Catalogue of Printed Books.
In 1850 he worked with William Ewart to introduce the UK's first legislation for free public libraries. In the same year he became Librarian of the new Manchester Free Library.
In 1859 he left Manchester to write books and catalogue the library of Queen's College, Oxford. When the Library Association was formed in 1877 he was offered the position of President, turning it down because of his deafness.
He retired to Niton and wrote further books on libraries, librarians and librarianship. He died in his sleep and was buried in an unmarked grave in Niton.
His own biographer, Thomas Greenwood, campaigned for a memorial on the grave which was unveiled on the sixteenth anniversary of Edwards's death in 1902.
Local Accession Number: 06_11_002017
Title: Library building
Statement of responsibility: Geo. H. Hastings, Photographist, Brown's Block, Main Street. St. Johnsbury, VT
Creator/Contributor: Hastings, George H. (photographer)
Genre: Stereographs; Photographic prints
Date issued: 1850-1920 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 9 x 18 cm.
General notes: Title from handwritten text on verso.
Date notes: Date supplied by cataloger.
Subjects: Libraries; Streets
Collection: Stereographs
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Shelf locator: Vermont
Rights: No known copyright restrictions.
Jinnah Library, Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore with IR filter
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Tipton Public library. Built 1905 by George H Wenyon. Red brick with bands of yellow terra cotta and tile roof. Entrance at base of tower facing Victoria Road. Above the round-arched doorway is a terra cotta panel with inscription: “Tipton Free Library AD 1905”. A foundation stone is inscribed. “Erected by the Munificence of Andrew Carnegie Esq.“