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The Jubilee Library is the largest running public library in the English city of Brighton and Hove. The Jubilee Library forms part of the Jubilee Square development in central Brighton, as a £50 million endeavour to regenerate a 40-year-old brownfield site .
The Brighton Literary Society, its successor the Brighton Royal Literary and Scientific Institution and its rival the Sussex Scientific Institution between them established a "very fine collection" [1] of publications by the mid-19th century, and these books were donated to the town when a public library was founded in 1871. Neighbouring Hove ...
Hove Library is a public lending library serving Hove, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove.The "highly inventive" Edwardian Baroque/Renaissance Revival-style building, a Carnegie library designed by the architects Percy Robinson and W. Alban Jones of Leeds, opened in 1908 on Church Road, succeeding a library founded in 1890 in a house on the nearby Grand Avenue.
A $75,000 grant from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs allowed the district to include a 10 kW photovoltaic system on the library's roof. Anythink Brighton, which opened in September 2009, is the most sustainable of the four new buildings in the capital construction project thus far and is considered the first carbon-negative library in ...
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Brighton and Hove City Council is the local authority for Brighton and Hove, a local government district with city status in the ceremonial county of East Sussex, England. The council is a unitary authority , being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council.
Brighton's central library used to be in the early-19th-century complex of buildings designed by William Porden, which later became Brighton Museum & Art Gallery. Distinguished by excellent interior tiling, [286] it had long been too small but was not replaced until Jubilee Library opened in February 2005. [287]
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