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Reading room

Christian Science Reading Room, a place where the public can study, borrow, or purchase Christian Science literature


Ethnography at the British Museum

Karl Marx who produced his Ethnographic Notebooks was a regular user of the Reading Room when it housed the British Library.


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Ernst Bloch

He wrote the lengthy three volume work in the reading room of Harvard's Widener Library.

GNR Stirling 4-2-2

This engine was later preserved by Mr Hoare in the Boys Reading Room at the Training Ship Mercury at Hamble.

History of the Panama Canal

To begin with, a number of clubhouses were built, managed by the YMCA, which contained billiard rooms, an assembly room, a reading room, bowling alleys, dark rooms for the camera clubs, gymnastic equipment, an ice cream parlor and soda fountain, and a circulating library.

Institute for the History of Aluminium

Access to its specialised library and archives is open to researchers in the reading room of the IHA in Gennevilliers.

James Kent

Bronze statutes of Chancellor Kent and Solon (the Athenian lawmaker whose reforms laid the foundations for democracy) represent law on the balustrade of the galleries of the Main Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. These statues are among sixteen representing men whose works have shaped human development and civilization.

John Radecki

A window for the reading room of the Mitchell Library, signed 'John Radecki, Sydney 1941', depicted the printer William Caxton with the first book printed in English.

Joseph Henry

Bronze statutes of Henry and Isaac Newton represent science on the balustrade of the galleries of the Main Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. They are two of the 16 historical figures depicted in the reading room, each pair representing one of the 8 pillars of civilization.

Mary Pickford Theater

The Mary Pickford Theater, named in honor of silent film star Mary Pickford, is the "motion picture and television reading room" of the United States' Library of Congress in Washington, DC.

Norbert Pearlroth

He usually worked ten hours a day, six days a week in the New York Public Library's Main Reading Room.

Seattle Central Library

Other internal features include; the Microsoft Auditorium on the ground floor, the "Living Room" on the third floor (designed as a space for patrons to read), the Charles Simonyi Mixing Chamber (a version of a reference desk that provides interdisciplinary staff help for patrons who want to have questions answered or do research), and the Betty Jane Narver Reading Room on level 10 (with views of Elliott Bay).

Slavs and Tatars

Beyonsense, the collective's first solo museum presentation in the U.S., features a black-lit reading room as well as a reconstruction of a little-known Dan Flavin work commissioned by the Dia Art Foundation for a Sufi mosque in New York's SoHo in the early 1980s.

Springburn Museum

Springburn Museum was set up in the reading room of the Springburn Library, Glasgow, Scotland, and opened by Tom Weir in 1988.

The British Museum Is Falling Down

For instance, there is a Kafkaesque scene where Adam has to renew his reading-room ticket.

University of Louisville School of Law

The Brandeis Law Library owns a limited edition print of Andy Warhol's portrait of Brandeis which is on display in the library's main reading room.