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The library's Main Reading Room on the 2nd floor. As part of its collection of more than 250,000 volumes, the library contains a wealth of material from earlier times. This includes: The Ursuline Collection [23] The James Joyce Collection [24] The Thomas More Collection [25] An archive of CNR history [26]
The El Paso Public Library is the longest continuously active public library system in Texas. [2] It was founded by Mary Irene Stanton, an El Paso area teacher. [3] Stanton "single-handedly becomes founder of the El Paso Public Library" when in 1894, she donated her personal collection of 1,000 books for a boy's Reading Club which was housed in a room in the Sheldon Building. [4]
Mid-Missourians can browse nearly 100 years of area yearbooks through Daniel Boone Regional Library's Community Yearbook Archive.
It was formerly known as the Virginia State Library and as the Virginia State Library and Archives. Formally founded by the Virginia General Assembly in 1823, the Library of Virginia organizes, cares for, and manages the state's collection of books and official records, many of which date back to the early colonial period.
The Pargiters' family home is being sold and Eleanor says goodbye to the housekeeper, Crosby, who must now take a room in a boarding house after forty years in the Pargiters' basement. From her new lodgings Crosby takes the train across London to collect the laundry of Martin, now forty-five and still a bachelor.
The Rare Book and Manuscript Library is principal repository for special collections of Columbia University.Located in New York City on the university's Morningside Heights campus, its collections span more than 4,000 years, from early Mesopotamia to the present day, and span a variety of formats: cuneiform tablets, papyri, and ostraca, medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, early printed books ...
The Liars' Club is a memoir by the American author Mary Karr.Published in 1995 by Viking Adult, the book tells the story of Karr's childhood in the 1960s in a small industrial town in Southeast Texas. [1]
The Years (French: Les Années) is a 2008 non-fiction book by Annie Ernaux.It has been described as a "hybrid" memoir, spanning the period of 1941 to 2006. [1] [2] [3] Ernaux's English publisher, Seven Stories Press, described it as an autobiography that is "at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective."