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Nottingham Central Library, internal, 1st floor stacks, October 2024. By the late 2010s the facility was again found inadequate and Nottingham City Council planned a £10m relocation as part of the redevelopment of the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre when creating a new southside gateway to the city, close to the rail station.
The library is situated in Bromley House, a Georgian townhouse in Nottingham city centre. This building is grade II* listed [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and retains many original features. It was built in 1752 as his town house by Sir George Smith, 1st Baronet (1714-1769) of Stoke Hall, East Stoke , Nottinghamshire, a grandson of the founder of Smith's Bank in ...
The Sir Harry and Lady Djanogly Learning Resource Centre (or the Djanogly LRC) is a library on the Jubilee Campus of the University of Nottingham, England. The library houses books and resources relating to courses and research in the university's Faculty of Education and School of Computing Science, and also houses the Commonwealth Education ...
Nottinghamshire Archives. In 1939, Nottingham Corporation appointed Violet Walker the first City Archivist; she had been appointed a librarian at Radford in 1926, before moving to Nottingham Reference Library in 1928, where she became librarian in 1936 and oversaw the re-cataloguing of its stock using the Dewey decimal system.
The collection of manuscripts and local archives in the University Library was encouraged initially by G.E. Flack, the first College Librarian. References in minutes of the University Council from the 1930s refer to the University Library's accession of significant gifts and deposits of archival materials, a process which accelerated after the war.
Nottingham Conference Centre was created in 2010 following a multimillion-pound refurbishment of two of Nottingham Trent University's Grade II* listed buildings, Newton and Arkwright. The centre's three Victorian character rooms are situated in the Arkwright building, originally built between 1877 and 1881 by Lockwood and Mawson, the prominent ...
Nottingham (/ ˈ n ɒ t ɪ ŋ ə m / ⓘ NOT-ing-əm, locally / ˈ n ɒ t n ʊ m /) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England.It is located 33 miles (53 km) south-east of Sheffield and 45 miles (72 km) north-east of Birmingham.
The north-western end of the city centre is home to the Nottingham Trent University city campus, which contains a mix of old and new buildings. The university's Newton building is one of the tallest buildings in Nottingham and has a prominent position on the city's skyline. Nottingham's central railway station is located in the city centre.