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.
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.
There have been many morning in hotels where I eat my in-room oatmeal while reading the news on my BlackBerry.
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 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.
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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He preferred to sit in his room reading Ramparts, the radical magazine from America the place he longed to be.
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.
In 2003, Bryant Park Corporation re-opened the Reading Room, and HSBC became their first sponsor.
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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.
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.
The home also has four and a half bathrooms, a reading alcove, a breakfast room and a sauna in the basement.
His lunch, which he ate on his own in an enormous, empty dining room while reading a book under the absentminded gaze of the elderly maid, and the black-and-white gaze of his deceased wife looking out from photographs in ornate silver frames, was light: soup and a small portion of fish and mashed potatoes, some of which he would allow to go cold.
The collection will be housed at the school in September 2009, after construction of a climate-controlled reading room.
You might be reading this from the office, sitting on the living room couch, or sitting in a Starbucks.
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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The witness is one of six alleged victims in the case and, like one of the others, she claimed she was forced to have an illegal abortion in a back-room in Reading.
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.
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.
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