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Reading room may refer to: Reference library; British Museum Reading Room; Christian Science Reading Room, a place where the public can study, borrow, or purchase Christian Science literature; The Reading Room, a 2005 American television film; The Reading Room (Hasenclever), an 1843 painting by Johann Peter Hasenclever
The Reading Room, I told Parker, was a temple to the deification of Bibliology. [20] The writer Bernard Falk (1882–1960) quotes the British historian Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) as having declared that the Reading Room of the British Museum was a convenient asylum for imbeciles whose friends wished them out of mischief's way. [21]
A Christian Science Reading Room is a facility operated as a public service by a Christian Science church in the community where that church exists. The local branches of The Mother Church ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist ) in Boston , Massachusetts, maintain these rooms as a place where one may study and contemplate the Bible and ...
A modern home office. A study, also known as a home office, is a room in a house that is used for paperwork, computer work, or reading.Historically, the study of a house was reserved for use as the private office and reading room of a parent/guardian as the formal head of a household, but studies are today generally used to operate a home business or open to the whole family.
The Main Reading Room View of the Thomas Jefferson Building's west façade The Great Hall and a view of the building's first and second floors, featuring Minerva mosaic. John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz won the competition for the architectural plans of the library in 1873.
There is an additional storage building and reading room in the branch library near Boston Spa in Yorkshire. The St Pancras building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 25 June 1998, and is classified as a Grade I listed building "of exceptional interest" for its architecture and history. [12]
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.
The Reading Room had no outer wall; the book stacks came right up to the back of the Reading Room shelves. So a new outer wall was created to protect the Reading Room, to support the new roof and to conceal the ventilation ducts serving the spaces below.