we’re not officially open to the public as we are taking this in-between time to do inventory etc., but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. To those patrons with their noses pressed against the glass waiting for the doors to open – Patience my dears, the time is near. ...
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Xi’an University in Shaanxi Province once adopted the practice of opening to the public and even tried very hard to persuade nearby residents to come to read. But the practice was later suspended, because the library was unable to meet readers’demands ...
The shift in academic and public interest in cultural heritage and its role in society, which began in the late 20th century, has only begun to affect Leiden University Libraries (UBL) – holder of the world’s second largest Indonesian cultural heritage collection – in the last decade. The ...
Founded in the late 18th century, the Indian library is home to a massive collection of Islamic and Asian texts and objects. The pink structure that houses the collection today was built in 1904 by Nawab Hamid Ali Khan as a mansion of Indo-European style, The Rampur Raza Library was later...
In the Netherlands, in the late nineties, a concentration of local government (economy of scale) was undertaken resulting in a smaller number of local authori- ties. After this local government reform, a decentralization of national responsibil- ity for public libraries took place and has ...
It was during the late Republican period of Rome that the first public library opened. It was created by one of Julius Caesar’s lieutenants, Asinius Pollio. It was called the Anla Libertatis, and it was located near the Roman Forum. ...
But is it too little and too late? Is there anything actually else that they could do? It’s certainly easier to criticise from the outside than to actually create the resources and some of the materials I see from library services producing their own SRC are decidedly below par. although...
Includes photograph of an Open Armillary Sundial (which tells both time and date) located at the northern tip of Library Park, near the center of the Pittsburgh suburb of Carnegie, Pennsylvania; at the top of Library Hill is the historic Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall, the fourth...
Just try searchingopen source physics engineand you could spend the rest of your day poring over a host of rich and complex codebases. This begs the question: If an existing code library takes care of physics simulation, why should you bother learning how to write any of the algorithms your...
Of late I had often recalled this saying and this incident; for during the past week scarcely a night had gone over my couch that had not brought with it a dream of an infant, which I sometimes hushed in my arms, sometimes dandled on my knee, sometimes watched playing with daisies on...