The reading room concept originally came from the New York Public Library, during the Depression.
In 2003, Bryant Park Corporation re-opened the Reading Room, and HSBC became their first sponsor.
The location of the stacks under the reading room was the concept of the first librarian, John Shaw Billings.
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But what no one seems to have noticed, or mentioned, is that the stacks are the structural support of the reading room.
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Restoration and retrofitting would be easier and cheaper than supporting the reading room with the enormously complex and expensive engineering needed during demolition and reconstruction.
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Paster had to run off, but left me in the very capable hands of Betsy Walsh, head of the reading room, who has spent 30-plus years learning about and caring for these treasures.
They made brilliant use of a favorite Beaux Arts theme a processional path from the Fifth Avenue entrance to the climactic experience of the grand reading room at the top.
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The British Museum does not currently have space for a big travelling show (it had to seek special permission from English Heritage to use the old Reading Room for the recent exhibition from China).
Joe Tortorella of Robert Silman Associates, the engineer hired to remove the stacks from under the Rose Reading Room while it's still in use, has compared his task to cutting off the legs of a table while a banquet is taking place.
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Incredibly, the Rose Reading Room has not been designated either, although it is eligible.
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The original 1850s reading room remains at the centre of the quadrangle, with Foster's roof above it.
All this sits within the embrace of the old Reading Room, its shelves and dome dimly glimpsed through gaps here and there.
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It has also seen a new building built behind the original listed facade and the restoration of the domed ceiling in the Picton Reading Room, which was constructed in 1875.
Natural and artificial light he was also a pioneer in insisting upon gaslight to enable evening use of the library suffuses the interior, particularly the majestic reading room, whose vast space still manages to convey a sense of intimacy between book and reader.
Wilson and Cowie leave it to you to notice such tiny details as the sign over the pay phone in the waiting room of a Houston bus station that says "Colored Only, " or the fact that the people in the room are reading Ebony, not Life.
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Newcastle's arching Tyne Bridge, Liverpool's modernist Philharmonic Hall and the classical rotunda of Manchester's central library, which held 300 readers in what was then the country's biggest reading room outside the British Library in London, were all products of the civic and, in some cases, philanthropic determination of local leaders.
The exhibition concludes with a reading room containing many of the 40 books Mr. Adams has published throughout his career.
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An end section through the building shows the stacks and reading room as a structurally inseparable unit.
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When its library moved to massive new premises 1.5 km away, it left behind one of the great English spaces: the 1857 Round Reading Room designed by Sydney Smirke, with its shallow dome, surrounded by an 8, 100 sq m internal court.
The small temple, which was a Christian Science reading room until the congregation bought it in the spring of 1992, is tucked back on a winding residential street in the northern part of the city, not far from the university that shares its name with the town.
In addition to providing a dedicated student entry, the William Fox Amphitheater for student orientation and an Internet reading room, the Education Center will offer high-tech, hands-on instruction through a digital learning suite, comprised of two media labs and a seminar room, and the Nam June Paik Experimental Production Studio.
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Entrance to the Building is through a lobby which leads to the Web Travel Agency, a Reading Room and to an elevator to reach the different floors.
Well, the Lindy Boggs Room was actually a caucus room, and that was turned into a women's reading room in the late 1970s.
The British Library has since improved its security as a result of this case, with a "massive" increase in its CCTV cameras, and in the number of staff who walk around the library's reading room floor.
Rather, it houses an exhibition hall, the famed Rose Main Reading Room, and some 5 million research volumes many of them housed in closed stacks that occupy a space two blocks long, a quarter-block wide and eight stories high.
It also has its own, smaller magazine, its own chat room (not as heavily used as the one on Cyberteens), and a reading room.
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The books for deep reading, the maps to layout on the dining room table and plot our journey.
On Small Business Saturday I was sitting in a Las Vegas hotel room, reading the local newspaper, learning about what Vegas merchants were doing to entice customers to keep their money local.
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