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The Art Library was originally the lending library which had aisles and a central nave. The library had terracotta columns and arches. The lending library bookcases were made of American walnut. These have subsequently been lost. The side room was originally a small museum, only 22 ft square, and contained, among other exhibits, a stuffed ...
The library holdings also incorporate the stock of the short lived Leeds Foreign Library. The Foreign Library was founded in 1778 [ 7 ] and incorporated into the Leeds Library in 1814. The library is the setting for much of Frances Brody's 2014 novel Death of an Avid Reader .
The Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) started in 1983 as an informal grouping of the seven largest university research libraries (the university libraries of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, and Oxford) to "explore the possibilities of closer co-operation, particularly, but not exclusively in the use of ...
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The Burley Branch Library was open on Cardigan Road, Burley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, between 1926 and 2016. It was established on vacant industrial land adjacent to a printing works and railway depot by Leeds City Council, and was majority financed by Carnegie. It is built to a design by Gilbert Burdett Howcroft.
The Brotherton Library is a 1936 Grade II listed Neoclassical building with some art deco fittings, located on the main campus of the University of Leeds.It was designed by the firm of Lanchester & Lodge, and is named after Edward Brotherton, 1st Baron Brotherton, who in 1927 donated £100,000 to the university as funding for its first purpose-built library.
Among other partners are The Literary Consultancy (TLC), [8] Writing on the Wall (WOW), [9] the Arvon Foundation, New Writing North, [10] and Leeds Library and Information Service. [11] According to TLC Director Aki Schilz : "The SI Leeds Prize offers a vital opportunity to women writers from black and Asian communities whose voices as we all ...
Leeds Library, the oldest surviving subscription library in the UK, is located on this street. [3] [4] The street runs west from Briggate to Albion Street, continuing to the east as Kirkgate, and to the west as Bond Street. It has junctions on its north side with Lands Lane, and on the south side with Bank Street and Marcelo Bielsa Way.