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The Central Library and Focus Art Gallery are housed in the building. It was opened in September 2013 [1] following a relocation from the former building of Southend Central Library on Victoria Avenue which now houses the Beecroft Art Gallery. [2] Membership for the library is free. [3]
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The building was designed as a library by the councils architect, Patrick Burrough, as part of the new Southend Civic Centre.The Civic Centre would encompass a new police station, the courthouse, council offices and chamber, a new College and a Library on a site first purchased by the council in 1919 for a further education college, but had been reallocated as a town hall site in 1934.
The Forum Southend-on-Sea is a £27 million library and learning zone located opposite the Southend Campus. [43] South Essex College is a partner in this venture with the University of Essex and Southend Council. [44] The Forum houses a library collection on the first floor and a dedicated South Essex College area on the third floor. [26]
At the same time, libraries began to develop applications to automate the purchase, cataloging, and circulation of books and other library materials. These applications, collectively known as an integrated library system (ILS) or library management system, included an online catalog as the public interface to the system's inventory. Most ...
The SAILS Library Network, formerly Southeastern Automated Integrated Library Services, [3] is a nonprofit library consortium of 70 member libraries in 39 communities located throughout Southeastern Massachusetts. [1] SAILS was founded in 1995 to link the ABLE and SEAL library networks, which were later dissolved into SAILS in 2000. [3]
Southend Central Museum is a museum in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. The museum houses collections of local and natural history and contains a planetarium constructed by astronomer Harry Ford in 1984. [1] The museum was opened in April 1981 in a Grade II listed building that was previously Southend's first free public library.
Kate Middleton’s return to greeting the public on Christmas Day was a poignant moment, not just for her, but for the many who had been eagerly awaiting her comeback after a difficult year. For ...