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Leicestershire (/ ˈ l ɛ s t ər ʃ ɪər,-ʃ ər / ⓘ LEST-ər-sheer, -shər) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire to the north, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warwickshire to the south-west, and Staffordshire to the west.
English: Southfields Branch Library, Saffron Lane, Leicester, seen from the southwest. Designed by the same architects as the St Barnabas Branch Library. Southfield Library is nicknamed the Pork Pie Library. Part of the building was originally a child welfare clinic.
Southfields Library The Southfields of Leicester , England consisted of common land south of the city, and now refers to the mostly-developed area immediately south of the city centre . It is one of three such large fields that survive as placenames, the others being the Highfields and the Northfields .
'Unlocking Our Sound Heritage' (UOSH) is a UK-wide project that aims to preserve, digitise and provide public access to a large part of the nation's sound heritage. The UOSH project forms part of the core programme 'Save Our Sounds' led by the British Library and involving a consortium of ten regional and national archival institutions.
Pilkington Library showing floor arrangement and entrance Pilkington Library from the West Park side of the building. The building unusually has the floor with the smallest area at the base of the structure, followed by another slightly larger, these first two floors being known as Level 1 and Level 2 and primarily holding book stock, Level 3 is slightly larger again and contains the entrance ...
The Guildhall library in England, which includes the New Testament in Greek from the 15th century, was established in 1632, when the town library was moved into the east wing of the building. [8] Leicester's first police force had its station in the Guildhall from 1836. [8] The Corporation moved to the new Leicester Town Hall in 1876. Apart ...
OverDrive, Inc. is a worldwide digital distributor of ebooks, audiobooks, online magazines and streaming video titles. The company provides digital rights management and download fulfillment services for publishers, public libraries, K–12 schools, colleges, universities, corporations, legal industries, and formerly retailers.
Users browse books online and have their choices home-delivered, rather than physically visiting a library to borrow a book. This e-commerce model is comparable to the video rental service provided Netflix. In 2009, online book rental was gaining popularity in India, with a number of websites offering free doorstep delivery for a small monthly fee.