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The library itself faces east, as Vitruvius recommends for libraries, the screens restricting access when the library was not in use and, with the high vaulted ceiling, taking advantage of the morning light. Portions of the floor and the podium of one of the walls survive allowed for the digital reconstruction of the library interior.
Plans for the library commenced in 2002, and construction took place from 2003 to 2006 at a cost of about S$10 million. [1] Designed by Look Boon Gee, it has about 250,000 titles spread over four floors and a basement, with a Café Galilee on the first floor.
The six-story library contains over 1.2 million volumes and can seat over 4,000 patrons; [6] 3,000 of these seats are in open-floor plan regions, with the remainder located in group study rooms. Each seat is equipped with or adjacent to a computer data jack. [ 5 ]
Phillips Exeter Academy Library is a library that serves Phillips Exeter Academy, an independent boarding school located in Exeter, New Hampshire. It is the largest secondary school library in the world, containing 160,000 volumes over nine levels with a shelf capacity of 250,000 volumes.
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The Main Reading Room View of the Thomas Jefferson Building's west façade The Great Hall and a view of the building's first and second floors, featuring Minerva mosaic. John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz won the competition for the architectural plans of the library in 1873.
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Hobart Carnegie Library, also known as the Hobart Historical Society Museum, is a historic Carnegie library located at Hobart, Lake County, Indiana. It was built in 1914–1915, and is a one-story, Tudor Revival style brick building. The building has a high-pitched slate gable roof and a polygonal bay with leaded glass windows and entry porch.