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The Mitchell Library is a large public library and centre of the City Council public library system of Glasgow, Scotland.
In honor of National Library Week, which ends today, April 25th. The prism sculpture inside the entrance to the new main library in Tacoma.
Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.,
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I have lived in Washington DC almost twenty years and have visited most of the museums, buildings and attractions at one time or another. To me, the most impressive is the Thomas Jefferson Building, the oldest and most recognizable Library of Congress building.
I have visited the LOC a few times but never attempted to get photos until my last visit. The scale is simply overwhelming. My lack of experience for indoor, architectural photography did not do justice to the grandeur of the place, but hopefully this short series will be of some interest. To me it's a must-see for any visit to DC.
Another shot from the "Main Reading Room." View LARGE for much more detail
The 135 AD Library of Celsus left and the 40 AD Gate of Mazeus and Mithridates right stand at the focal point of the ancient city of Ephesus, Turkey.
Technically not a "library" shelfie, as these books are all in the living room rather than the library. Those shelves are too packed to fit a Blythe!
Consolidating Vancouver Public Library's Central Branch, Federal Office Tower, and retail and service facilities, the Library Square occupies a city block in Downtown Vancouver. Centred on the block, the library is a nine-story rectangular box containing book stacks and services, surrounded by a free-standing, elliptical, colonnaded wall featuring reading and study areas that are accessed by bridges spanning skylit light wells. The library's internal glass facade overlooks an enclosed concourse formed by a second elliptical wall that defines the east side of the site. This glass-roofed concourse serves as an entry foyer to the library and the more lively pedestrian activities at ground level. Public spaces surrounding the library form a continuous piazza with parking located below grade. The building's exterior resembles the Flavian Amphitheater in Rome (better known by its later name of the Colosseum) although in fact the resemblance is to the present rather than original state of the building.
Abel & Company, photographer
New York City book campaign / Abel & Company, Inc., commercial photographers, 903 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
1919.
1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 21 x 16 cm.
Summary:
Photograph shows a woman standing on a pile of books speaking into a megaphone for an American Library Association War Service promotion to collect books for soldiers fighting in Europe.
Notes:
• Title from item.
• Stamped on verso: Please credit American Library Association.
• Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the Annenberg Space for Photography, 2018; Military section.
Subjects:
• American Library Association.--War Service.
• World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York.
• Book drives--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920.
• Women--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920.
• Books--1910-1920.
Format:
Photographic prints--1910-1920.
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
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.40926
Call Number: LOT 13440-2, no. 21
The sun streams in through a window in one of the wings of the Pannonhalma Archabbey library in Pannonhalm, Hungary.
I would have liked it better without the hideous posters covering the books on either side and without the table pad behind the globe, but you take the shots you can take...
The outside of Nottingham's future new Central Library, part of the Broadmarsh Car Park/Bus Station building. I don't know where the quotes are from -Google is no help.
I have lived in Washington DC almost twenty years and have visited most of the museums, buildings and attractions at one time or another. To me, the most impressive is the Thomas Jefferson Building, the oldest and most recognizable Library of Congress building.
I have visited the LOC a few times but never attempted to get photos until my last visit. The scale is simply overwhelming. My lack of experience for indoor, architectural photography did not do justice to the grandeur of the place, but hopefully this short series will be of some interest. To me it's a must-see for any visit to DC.
This shot is from the "Main Reading Room." View LARGE for much more detail
The Cumberland Library, in Rhode Island, was a Trappist monastery before it was a library. Originally called Monastery of Our Lady of the Valley, this Gothic structure housed 140 monks until being ravished by a fire in the 1950s.
Afterward, the monks relocated to a new monastery and the remaining buildings were repurposed into the Cumberland Public Library.
Since then, rumors of hauntings in the older parts of the building began to spread. Sightings of ghostly monks, unexplained sounds and the like have been reported by employees and patrons.
A short walk through the forest surrounding the monastery turned library will lead you to Nine Men's Misery--a haunted mass grave of nine colonial soldiers that were tortured to death three hundred years ago.
Active Assignment Weekly Sept. 19 - 26: Hugging the Curves
WIT: These are the steps of the library. Took the shot, cropped to square, and desaturated a little in photoshop.
The new Queanbeyan Library (2024). Photographed for the BookSpaces project - www.frame49.photography .
Some reviewers have asked why I do not include more people in my library photographs, after all, a library is worthless unless there are people to borrow items. A modern library is more than a storehouse for books.
Most libraries impose limits on my BookSpaces photography. More often than not, the difficulties associated with including people in my photographs outweigh the benefits. Libraries do not have control over their patrons. It would be too disruptive to seek permission from every person likely to be in shot.
I am planning to have models work with me in future shoots - to make these spaces look more inhabited.
Before the Manilow concert we spent a day in the centre of Birmingham, which boasts a combination of old and modern architecture. A fine specimen of the latter is this library. On the top floor you are supposed to have a fantastic view of the city, but we were a bit disappointed. The weather was fine, but large parts of the city had been turned into one giant construction site.
I wonder how they manage to keep the outside of this building more or less spider-free.
Powell Library is the main college undergraduate library on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). It was constructed from 1926 to 1929 and was one of the original four buildings that comprised the UCLA campus in the early period of the university's life. Its Romanesque Revival architecture design, its historic value and its popularity with students make it one of the defining images of UCLA. Like the building facing it across the quad, Royce Hall, the building's exterior is modeled after Milan's Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio.