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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Reading rooms"”.
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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 …
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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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'Its inhabitants are a reading people': from Cork city bookshops and voluntary libraries to the Cork Public Library, c.1792–1920
This thesis investigates the local reading culture of Cork city over the long nineteenth century, focusing on bookshops, libraries and reading rooms. It considers the question of the affordability of reading material and the ways it was accessed by the city’s population. It begins by looking at the …
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Library
… my desire for a return to the libraries of grand reading rooms. lt was as well a project to try my hand at juxtaposing large masonry piers or walls with light steel trusses. In retrospect, though these two ideas remained my motivating forces, it became a project by which to begin to understand the …
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The leisure activities of the rural working classes with special reference to Norfolk 1840-1940
… football, and alternatives to the public house – reading rooms and village halls, the latter being open to all sections of society and not solely men. Arguably, rural women benefited most from these remarkable transformations. The introduction of new societies, such as the Mothers’ Union and the …
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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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Lietuvių Šv. Kazimiero draugijos veikla Vilniaus krašte 1925 - 1937 m. ir jos santykiai su Lenkijos administracija /
… aim, the association’s departments, libraries, reading-rooms were being established in various regions. Lectures, courses and cultural events were being organized as well. The association worked according to its rules which, after long struggle, were ratified by the government. The main its …
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Homes of Capital: Merchants and Mobility across Indian Ocean Gujarat
… texts across merchant libraries, reading rooms and homes were embedded in and shaped a longue durée oceanic topography. My project documents the range of visual, material, textual and affective modes from within this topography through which merchants gave and give form to such a …
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Balkan Minds: Transnational Nationalism and the Transformation of South Slavic Immigrant Identity in Chicago, 1890-1941
… modeled after nineteenth-century citaonicas (reading rooms), maticas (literary societies), and literary journals that dominated nationalist discourse throughout the Balkans. Croat, Serb, and Slovene émigrés were not integrated into their respective national identities but rather remained fixed …