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The Canton Carnegie Library, at 225 E. 4th St. in Canton, South Dakota, was built in 1913. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. [1] It is a raised one-story building with basement built of brick with sandstone trim, upon a concrete foundation. [2] It was designed by Huron, South Dakota architect George ...
The center has a museum, library, cinema, theater, and exhibition halls. [6] It was designed by the Norwegian architectural firm Snøhetta. [ 7 ] The center has been listed in Time magazine as one of the world's top 100 places to visit [ 1 ] [ 8 ] and attracted one million visitors in 2019.
The Ann Arbor District Library (AADL) is a public library system that serves the residents of the Ann Arbor, Michigan school district. The Downtown Library, located at 343 South Fifth Avenue, was dedicated in 1957 and had building additions in 1974 and 1991.
Under the leadership of Library Director Waynn Pearson, the Cerritos Millennium Library was expanded to 88,500 square feet (8,220 m 2) on three stories and added 300,000 books to its collection, a conference center, a lecture hall with personal computers and over 200 computer workstations. The children's library includes the saltwater aquarium ...
The Advertising Archives is a picture library and museum with an archive of one million British and American press ads, TV stills, magazine covers, catalogues, greetings cards, posters, illustrations and cultural ephemera dating from 1850 to the present day.
The British Library was created on 1 July 1973 as a result of the British Library Act 1972. [13] Prior to this, the national library was part of the British Museum, which provided the bulk of the holdings of the new library, alongside smaller organisations which were folded in (such as the National Central Library, [14] the National Lending Library for Science and Technology and the British ...
They had been carbonized when the villa was engulfed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The papyri, containing a number of Greek philosophical texts, come from the only surviving library from antiquity that exists in its entirety. [2] However, reading the scrolls is extremely difficult, and can risk destroying them.
The Rylands Library Papyrus P52, also known as the St John's fragment and with an accession reference of Papyrus Rylands Greek 457, is a fragment from a papyrus codex, measuring only 3.5 by 2.5 inches (8.9 cm × 6.4 cm) at its widest (about the size of a credit card), and conserved with the Rylands Papyri at the John Rylands University Library Manchester, UK.