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The Sitting Room Library books and archives began in the early 1970s as a collection of one of the Sitting Room's founders, J.J. Wilson. Her long interest in the British modernist writer, Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) has resulted in a wide assortment of books by and about Woolf, her family and the Bloomsbury Group of her talented friends ...
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The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (/ ˈ b aɪ n ɪ k i /) is the rare book library and literary archive of the Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut.It is one of the largest buildings in the world dedicated to rare books and manuscripts and is one of the largest collections of such texts. [1]
In library science and architecture, a stack or bookstack (often referred to as a library building's stacks) is a book storage area, as opposed to a reading area. More specifically, this term refers to a narrow-aisled, multilevel system of iron or steel shelving that evolved in the 19th century to meet increasing demands for storage space. [ 1 ]
Johann Peter Hasenclever's The Reading Room (1843). A cabinet de lecture (in English: reading room), sometimes also called a cabinet littéraire, [1] was an establishment where members of the public in the 18th and 19th centuries could, in exchange for a small fee, read public papers, as well as old and new literary works.
Duke Humfrey's Library is the oldest reading room in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. It is named after Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, who donated 281 books after his death in 1447. Sections of the libraries were restored and expanded in the 16th and 17th centuries, including the addition of a second storey, an ...
In 2006 the "Rare Book Room" website was created which contains the complete collection in medium to medium-high resolution freely available to the public through a web browser or as a PDF file. Some high resolution versions are still being sold by Octavo through a separate website. As of 2007 over 400 books have been scanned. [1]
The Library in 2013. Two further stories of public space and stacks are underground. The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia is a research library that specializes in American history and literature, history of Virginia and the southeastern United States, the history of the University of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, and the history and arts of the ...