So when I recently went to buy my first copy of The Dandy in decades - research for a story on a new exhibition at the National Library of Scotland - I was slightly thrown by its look.
Max went to the archives at the Lilly Library to examine the Carver-Lish letters.
The searches may be conducted on-site at the library or via an online catalog, which will be accessible via the library's World Wide Web site at www.loc.gov.
So on June 26, 161 billionaires and near-billionaires gathered at the New York Public Library for The Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy, the greatest-ever meeting of its kind.
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Tammy's days revolved around meeting the other mothers for story hours at the local public library or for play dates at their homes, where the living-room floors were covered with toys.
The ticket reservations department took over the 72-foot-long (22 metre) library at Donington Hall, the bedrooms became executive offices, and Rolls-Royces, driven by chauffeurs dressed like pilots, once more crunched up the gravel drive to the grand front door.
Noelle Nelson, the acting chief executive of Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, which is backing the project, said the settlers' first-hand accounts at the State Library are "unrivalled".
Working with a team of scholars, they translated both works (the second one turned up, go figure, in the library at the University of Texas) into present-day Spanish and modern math formulas.
Additionally, windows can be set to automatically track items such as moving vehicles, individuals, the books you get out of the library, and the items you pick up at 7-11 after a night out with the gang.
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Here in Washington this weekend, at the annual Convention of the American Library Association, delegates got a rare peek at the workings of a secret panel - the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court, which authorizes wiretaps on people in the United States.
The couple will also meet Lincoln experts at the Presidential Library and Museum where Day-Lewis researched his role.
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That shift is also much in evidence at the Seattle Public Library, a diamond-scaled stack of origami-folded glass boxes that opened to considerable acclaim almost a decade ago.
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The JFK School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge -- miles away from the library in the Dorchester section of Boston -- was evacuated.
The JFK School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge --- miles away from the library in the Dorchester section of Boston -- was evacuated.
The alliance will aim at establishing common strategic approaches and projects to implement library-related parts of the Declaration of Principles and the Geneva Plan of Action adopted by WSIS in Geneva in 2003 and endorsed in Tunis in 2005.
But Gene Deana, head of the recorded-sound section at the Library of Congress, says he's thrilled to get it.
Residents held a five-hour sit-in protest at the library on 5 April, the day it was shut by the council.
That brought a rebuke from the finger-waggers at The Corporate Library, a nonprofit that charged he has too much control over succession planning.
The disc was too fragile to play using a needle so the museum, along with researchers at the US Library of Congress and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, developed an alternative play-back system that used light and a 3D camera to turn its bumps and grooves into sounds.
PANDORA, Australia's Web Archive 1996-ongoing held at the National Library of Australia in Canberra.
The meeting at the Library of Congress offered a mix of cutting-edge research and cautionary reflections.
Many will be looking closely at his writings in the Public Library of US Diplomacy - and what they find may influence how he is portrayed in the future.
Starting October 27th, you can vote early at any convenient location across the state -- your library, your city hall.
Hardbound books, apparently, are soooo 20th century -- at least for the upcoming BiblioTech library in San Antonio, Texas' south side.
The yacht also sports a library and cinema, plus enough deck space at the stern to store a pair of 45-foot motor launches and an armor-plated Chevy Suburban or two.
My wife and I have tried also to take advantage of the hospitality at the Westport Public Library, the Wilton YMCA, and the Wilton Public Library, each of which boasts Wi-Fi access and a very welcoming attitude.
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The library has also agreed to acquire at least 18 e-readers that are accessible to persons with disabilities.
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Also, staff members at the county library branch on campus, where Quick worked part-time for about a year, "had fond things to say of him, " Levy said.
Then, on a beautiful day this past June, with Buffett and Gates as co-hosts, FORBES, as only it could, gathered 161 billionaires or near-billionaires at the New York City Public Library.
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In order to create a unique taste, Jared Brown went through a raft of historical recipes from the 1, 000-drinks-book library at his home in Gloucestershire, and started experimenting with ingredients such as Italian orris root and Chinese cassia bark.
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