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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Reading Room"”.
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Terras em que plantei: memórias de uma prática bibliotecária
… the positive and negative aspects regarding the Reading Room of the Aldeia Literária SOS Paraíba, located in João Pessoa, by identifying the problems and, afterwards, implementing the solutions and the improvements in the mentioned place. The goal of the study is to register the activities …
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The National Library of Wales and National Identity, c.1840-1916
… services were utilised by three user groups: reading room users, tutorial class attendees and Ruhleben camp internees. Reading room usage generally concurred with the founders’ overall vision for the library. In contrast, remote users attending tutorial classes were given the opportunity to …
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Towards a new art of reading
Reading has a long history, marked with shifts in inscription and language and with evolutions in the architectural typology of the library and reading room. How - and what - we read changes over time. Towards a New Art of Reading imagines a future state of readership, affective reading - capturing …
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Exploring the Book Through Layers of Public Space
… street into the semi-public space of a library reading room, and perhaps beyond to their private places of study. Each stage of their journey should be a clearly defined 'place' with its own purpose and potential. At the same time, the spatial boundaries in this progression must be integrated in …
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'Our glory and our grief': Toronto and the Great War (Ontario)
… Ontario, the Public Archives of Canada, Baldwin Reading Room, Directorate of History, University of Toronto Archives and Thomas Fisher Rare Book Room, and related church archives. Using these public and private sources, a complex portrait of wartime life has been drawn detailing what residents …
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Form and daylight as a creative medium : Church of John Paul II in South End, Boston
… of John Paul II, including the Baptistery, Reading Room, and Auditorium. For most of us, Vision is the most powerful of our five senses and the main receptor of information, conditioning our memory and imagination. Sight (light, form and color) is the primary medium through which our …
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The genesis of youth services in public libraries in China, 1912-1937
… library in China. The first children’s reading rooms were founded in public libraries in the late 1910s, which predated the other elements of youth services librarianship. In response to the publication peak of children’s reading materials since the 1920s, librarians set standards for …
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The nineteenth-century English dialect novel
… Three explores Benjamin Brierley’s dialect Readings that were popular in the 1870s and 1880s, illuminating the elements of performance that were latent in his dialect prose. This chapter uses playbill and local newspaper material to analyse the politics of laughter and the mechanics involved …
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Overdue, returned, and missing: the changing stories of Boston's Chinatown Branch Library
In 1896, the Boston Public Library (BPL) opened a reading room on Tyler Street in between the South End and Chinatown. Since then, the library has disappeared and reappeared in various forms in Chinatown for different reasons. In 1956, the City of Boston demolished the Tyler Street Branch Library …
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An outcome evaluation of Living Through Learning's Coronation Reading Adventure Room Programme
… of the Living Through Learning's Coronation Reading Adventure Room Programme. LTL's reading programme objectives include aspects of improving and developing English literacy in disadvantaged schools, teaching learners how to read and write and equipping teachers with the necessary skills to …
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From Reading Rooms to Cafes
<p>Still today, reading rooms play an important role in the researcher and archivist relationship. They represent the place wherein researchers conduct their studies. However, in the past couple decades technology has been and continues to allow more research take place outside of these walls. This …