Libraries
Rooms full of books and how they were organised. Alexandria and what actually happened to it, the reading room, the card catalogue, Dewey and the Library of Congress classification, the stacks, and the fight over what a library is for now.
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- - Karácsond, a Beretvás-kastély könyvtára. A felvétel 1895-1899 között készült. a Beretvás-kastély könyvtára. A felvétel 1895-1899 között készült. A kép forrását kérjük így adja meg: Fortepan / Budapest Főváros Levéltára. Levéltári jelzet: HU.BFL.XV.19.d.1.12.047
- - Carnegie library competition, Pittsburgh, Pa. Preliminary study - - William E. Greenawalt, archt., New York. Title: Carnegie library competition, Pittsburgh, Pa. Preliminary study / / William E. Greenawalt, archt., New York. Abstract/medium: 1 drawing: photomechanical print; sheet 19 x 22 cm.
- - Dictionary typography symbols. An old dictionary's use of typographic symbols for less common (ᚼ), technical (⚙), nautical (⚓), and military (⚔) terms. From "Fransk-svensk ordbok" (1891), a French-Swedish translation dictionary, page 601.
- - Carnegie Library, San Jose, Cal. Wm. Binder, architect - - John Parry, photographer. Title: Carnegie Library, San Jose, Cal. Wm. Binder, architect / / John Parry, photographer. Abstract/medium: 1 photograph: photomechanical print; sheet 24 x 33 cm. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today.
- - Andrew Carnegie letter in 1905 to establish a library at Syracuse University. Carnegie letter, 1905. James Roscoe Day Papers, University Archives, Special Collections Research Center. Letter from the office of Andrew Carnegie confirming his commitment to providing construction costs for a new library once the University was able to raise the required matching endowment. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today.
- - Interior Library. Title: Interior Library Abstract/medium: 1 negative: glass; 5 x 7 in. or smaller Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today.
- - Small Children in Library Sitting at Tables(GN08843). Children reading, literacy work and school reading across different countries.
- - Using the library card catalog, second instructional still. Learning to use the card catalog is a skill taught early in elementary school. Libraries were maintained in each of the 100 Minneapolis Public Schools. Photo is stamped February, 1964, but series appeared in the 1963 Annual Report. Portrait Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today.
- - Using the library card catalog, instructional still. Learning to use the card catalog is a skill taught early in elementary school. Libraries were maintained in each of the 100 Minneapolis Public Schools. Photo is stamped February, 1964, but series appeared in the 1963 Annual Report. Portrait Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today.
- - Using the card catalog (1983). A public library instructional film made when the card catalog was still the only way in.
- - The Bibliotheca Alexandrina at five. American Libraries visits the library opened in Alexandria in 2002 as a modern successor to the ancient one, and the Serapeum site nearby.
- - GU Library Card catalog 4. Card catalog at the Gothenburg University Library (Central Library) in Sweden. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today.
- - Inside the Schwarzman Building. The New York Public Library on the story behind its landmark Fifth Avenue building.
- - Bibliotheque Ste Genevieve. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today.
- - Bibliotheque Ste Genevieve - Tom Hilton. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today.
- - Bibliotheque Sainte Genevieve. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today.
- - The Vatican library reopens after restoration. AP Archive on the Apostolic Library returning to scholars after a three-year closure.
- - The Calgary library. 3XN Architects' film on the design of Calgary's central public library.
- - Designing world-class libraries. Architect Morten Schmidt on what a contemporary library building has to do.
- - A broad history of the card catalog. Peter Devereaux lectures on the index card as an information technology.
- - Card catalog John Rylands Library 01. A card catalog at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, UK. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today.
- - Hidden details of the New York Public Library. Architectural Digest's guided tour of the building's design and construction.
- - Libraries of the future in Europe. DW Euromaxx on new library buildings in Bilbao, Stuttgart and Tilburg that function as cultural centres rather than book stores.
- - Principia Mathematica 1713. Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton, 2nd edition, published 1713, opened to title page. (Displayed at Bobst Library of New York University.)
- - The Fagel collection at Trinity. A Dutch book historian works through the library of the Fagel family, bought intact by Trinity in 1802 and one of the largest surviving private libraries of the period.
- - Alexandria library (10), view 2. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today.
- - Alexandria library (1). A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today.
- - The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, a second exterior view. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today.
- - The library of the popes. A tour of the Vatican Apostolic Library and the ancient texts it preserves.
- - Ōhashi Library at Kudanshita. A destroyed or ruined library. The Leuven university library was burned by German troops in 1914 and again in 1940. Modern photograph.
- - Inside the Fellows' Library at Winchester College. A tour of a historic school library and the rare books it has held for centuries.
- - How much was lost at the Library of Alexandria. A classicist assesses the evidence for the library's decline and what scholarship it actually held.
- - What was lost when the Library of Alexandria burned. A documentary examining the destruction of the ancient library and how much of the story is myth.
- - 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 004. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves.
- - 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 002. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves.
- - 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 010. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves.
- - 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 008. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves.
- - 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 001. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves.
- - 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 007. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves.
- - 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 009. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves.
- - 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 012. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves.
- - 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 005. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves.
- - 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 003. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves.
- - 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 011. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves.
- - Building J. Pierpont Morgan's library. The Morgan Library traces how the financier assembled his collection and built a room to hold it.
- - A library built for 400 years. RIBA on the New Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, designed to replace a library given by Samuel Pepys three centuries earlier and to last four more.
- - Carrying a library over the hills in Ghana. Students carry boxes of donated books up to their school to establish its first library.
- - The library that holds every book ever published. A visit to a legal-deposit library and the practical problem of storing a copy of everything printed.
- - Andrew Carnegie and the Carnegie libraries. A talk connecting Carnegie's steel fortune to the 2,509 free public libraries he funded.
- - The Vatican's restricted library. A short history-podcast account of the church's holdings of prohibited books.
- - Actor Hugh Bonneville looks over a collections display with Patrick Hastings during a tour of the Library of C. Actor Hugh Bonneville looks over a collections display with Patrick Hastings during a tour of the Library, April 15, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress. Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today.
- - An underground library in Tehran. A report on a Tehran collection preserving books that cannot legally be sold.
- - Carnegie libraries in Oregon. A historical society talk on the Carnegie grants that built Oregon's public libraries from 1906.
- - Carnegie's free public libraries. Brian Cox narrates the case for the free public library as Carnegie's central idea.
- - The future of libraries, 2025. San Francisco Public Library panel on how libraries are responding to urgent needs in immigrant communities.
- - Seattle Central Library explained. An architectural analysis of Rem Koolhaas's radical library for the digital age.
- - The first library in the world. Irving Finkel, filmed inside the British Museum, on the Assyrian library at Nineveh.
- - The story behind the Carnegie libraries. A 2026 local news report on the surviving Carnegie library buildings and their current use.
- - TU Delft Library. A 2026 study of the Delft library building you walk over rather than into.
- - Stuttgart City Library. A 2026 study of the Stuttgart library's cube-within-a-cube plan and what it does to reading.
- - The Vatican Apostolic Library. A visual essay on the library's structure, its holdings and its survival.
- - Alexandria was not burned down in a night. A sober treatment arguing the library's end was a slow process of neglect, defunding and dispersal.