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The old Swansea Central Library in Swansea, Wales, was a public lending and reference library in Alexandra Road, in the city centre. The former library, a late 19th-century Grade II listed building , is now occupied by Swansea Metropolitan University's Welsh School of Architectural Glass .
A "Rename Seeley Library" sticker on a road crossing sign, opposite Bateman Street, in Cambridge. In November 2021, a petition calling on the University of Cambridge to change the name of the library to the History Faculty Library has attracted more than 600 signatures. 28 university societies and organisations have backed the petition, including the Student Union, which is calling on the ...
Swansea Civic Centre (Welsh: Canolfan Ddinesig Abertawe) – formerly known as County Hall – is the principal administrative centre of Swansea Council.Standing some 800 m southwest of Swansea city centre, by the seafront and overlooking Swansea Bay, the complex houses – in addition to the council chamber and offices – a public cafe, the central library, an exhibition space, archives ...
On the east balustrade of the library's roof are four statues by Gabriel Cibber representing Divinity, Law, Physic (medicine), and Mathematics. [3] As part of the complex of buildings surrounding Nevile's Court, Great Court and New Court, the library is a Grade I listed building. [4] The other library designed by Wren is Lincoln Cathedral Library.
The 1937 Library Reading Room. With the growth of the University College of Swansea in the 1920s the old library based in Singleton Abbey was no longer suitable. [1] A competition was held in 1934 and was won by the London architect Verner O. Rees who designed other university libraries including the now-demolished University of Birmingham Library which was constructed in 1959. [2]
The Cambridgeshire Collection is a UK local government institution and part of the Cambridgeshire County Council, Cambridgeshire Libraries Local Studies service.It is housed within Cambridge Central Library It collects printed, published and illustrative material relating to the modern county of Cambridgeshire, which includes the former counties of Huntingdonshire and the Isle of Ely.
The Pendlebury Library of Music is the library of the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, England. The current building was completed in 1984, and was designed by Sir Leslie Martin. [1] The library is located next to the West Road Concert Hall and the Faculty of Music's old building on the Sidgwick Site, West Road, Cambridge.
Cambridge University Library, referred to within the university as "the University Library" or just "the UL", is the central research library. It holds around 8 million items (including maps and sheet music) and, in contrast with the Bodleian or the British Library , many of its books are available on open shelves.