Sunday, 8 November 2015
New Library in Almere - Design.nlThe building itself, designed by Meyer & Van Schooten, is triangular in plan and is set on a sloping site with a six-metre change in height from one side to the other. Inside, the architects solved the height difference with a series of stepped terraces — Kleinenberg calls them ‘paddy fields’— separated by sinuous contour lines. Winding bookshelves (5000 running metres in all) follow the edges of the terraces and organise the interior into different zones for different types of customer.
Saturday, 17 October 2015
New York Public Library
he New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items, the New York Public Library is the second largest public library in the United States (behind the Library of Congress), andfourth largest in the world.[3] It is an independently managed, nonprofit corporation operating with both private and public financing. The library has branches in the boroughs of Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island, and affiliations with academic and professional libraries in the metropolitan area of New York State. The City of New York's other two boroughs, Brooklyn and Queens, are served by the Brooklyn Public Library and the Queens Library, respectively. The branch libraries are open to the general public and consist of research libraries and circulating libraries.Read about the book.
The first R in “library” is often slurred or omitted in speech, and it sometimes drops out in writing as well; and “librarian” is often turned into “libarian.”
Friday, 9 October 2015
Resource Library
ccording to statistics from the American Library Association and the
Book Industry Study Group, libraries yearly purchase books for nearly $2
billion. But not only books, also audio books and other forms of
publications, such as e-books.
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