The mantel was found in a recently demolished Salem house and is being fitted over the White House library fireplace.

Each subject center library was chosen because of its demonstrated strength in a particular area, which headquarters could then build upon.

It never registered with them that I had time to read all of Balzac, Dickens, and Stendhal while Papa was dying, not to mention everything in the city library after Mother's operation.

Acquiring a repertoire from the Laboratory library was no problem to one trained to perfect recall.

From 796 until his death he was Abbot of the great monastery of St. Martin of Tours where he founded a library by obtaining copies of books from libraries in his native England.

It is probable that the first collection of astronomical observations and terrestrial omens was made for a library established by Sargon.

The most nearly complete collection of Aldine editions ever brought together was in the Althorp library of the 2nd Earl Spencer, now in the John Rylands Library, Manchester.

Carnegie's education and passion for reading was given a great boost by Colonel James Anderson, who opened his personal library of 400 volumes to working boys each Saturday night.

But the design of the idealized free library was the subject of prolonged and heated debate.

The building was designed to serve as both a public library and a community center.

Although Cambria Iron and Steel's facilities were heavily damaged by the flood, they returned to full production within a year .. After the flood, Carnegie built Johnstown a new library to replace the one built by Cambria's chief legal counsel Cyrus Elder, which was destroyed in the flood.

Thus, the Turun Sanomat Building first heralded Aalto's move towards modernism, and this was then carried forward both in the Paimio Sanatorium and in the on-going design for the library.

Their father's well-stocked library was a source of knowledge.

* Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first leader of free modern Greece ( 1776 – 1831 ), had a large building erected ; intended as a barracks, it was subsequently used as a museum, a library and a school.

While it touted superior graphics to the 2600 and Mattel's Intellivision, the system was initially incompatible with the 2600s expansive library of games, and some market analysts have speculated that this hurt its sales especially since an Atari 2600 cartridge adapter had been released for the Intellivision II.

The game library was composed of 51 unique games and about 10 variations.

It was at the Watkinson library that Whorf became friends with the young boy, John B. Carroll, who later went on to study psychology under B. F. Skinner, and who in 1956 edited and published a selection of Whorf's essays as Language, Thought and Reality.

In a Yale library in 1971 he met fellow law student Hillary Rodham, who was a year ahead of him.

COCONET's bitmap and vector graphics and support for multiple type fonts were inspired by the PLATO system, and the graphics capabilities were based on what was available in the Borland BGI graphics library.

Reverend Thomas Smith and Humfrey Wanley undertook the task of cataloguing the Cotton library, in which the Nowell Codex was held.

A full catalogue of the library available to Bede in the monastery cannot be reconstructed, but it is possible to tell, for example, that Bede was very familiar with the works of Virgil.

Einstein was impressed, translated the paper himself from English to German and submitted it for Bose to the Zeitschrift für Physik, which published it ( The Einstein manuscript, once believed to be lost, was found in a library at Leiden University in 2005 .).

The Chaghatay original was last seen in the imperial library sometime between 1628 and 1638 during Shah Jahāngīr's reign.

Until 1997, when the British Library ( previously centred on the Round Reading Room ) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building.

The American Institute of Decorators has acquired a rare complete set of sofas and chairs which are to be placed in the Executive Mansion's library.

To set up a co-operative library system, the law requires a central book collection of 100,000 nonfiction volumes as the nucleus, and the system is organized around it.

The couple took great interest in their staff, and set up a lending library.

In 1802 a Buildings Committee was set up to plan for expansion of the museum, and further highlighted by the donation in 1822 of the King's Library, personal library of King George III's, comprising 65, 000 volumes, 19, 000 pamphlets, maps, charts and topographical drawing.

There have been dozens of arcade-based releases across several countries and hundreds of home video game console releases, promoting a music library of original songs produced by Konami's in-house artists and an eclectic set of licensed music from many different genres.

Plutarch ( AD 46 – 120 ) wrote that during his visit to Alexandria in 48 BC Julius Caesar accidentally burned the library down when he set fire to his own ships to frustrate Achillas ' attempt to limit his ability to communicate by sea.

King Ptolemy II Philadelphus ( 309 – 246 BC ) is said to have set 500, 000 scrolls as an objective for the library.

The first library classification system was set up during the Han Dynasty.

In Shiraz Adhud al-Daula ( d. 983 ) set up a library, described by the medieval historian, al-Muqaddasi, as " a complex of buildings surrounded by gardens with lakes and waterways.

* Books and other items that are being held for library users who asked the librarian by phone to set them aside for them to pick up later the same day, or within the next few days.

* Books from the circulating collection that have been set aside for students working on a special assignment, and are temporarily designated to be used only within the library until the project is due.

The AWMT paper did not describe any automatic search, nor any universal metadata scheme such as a standard library classification or a hypertext element set like the Dublin core.

In the 2nd century BCE a great library was set up in Pergamon that rivalled the famous Library of Alexandria.

For this reason, a comparatively small set of library predicates suffices for many Prolog programs.

He died in his home " in a bed set up in the library of his SoHo loft, surrounded by his wife Rhonda, his mother Eleanor, and the many books he loved.

In 1928, the warlord Shi Yousan set fire to the monastery, burning it for over 40 days, destroying a significant percent of the buildings, including many manuscripts of the temple library.

Theodore then set about building various workshops within the monastery to guarantee autarky, constructing a library and a scriptorium, and restoring and decorating the church.

For example, a computerized library database might provide two user interfaces, one for library patrons ( limited set of functions, optimized for ease of use ) and the other for library personnel ( wide set of functions, optimized for efficiency ).

The additions included a fine set of Dutch-gabled buildings backing onto the River Cam, and a ' window-with-nothing-behind-it ' that was designed to solve the problem of connecting the windowed library with the remainder of the court.

Francis set an important precedent by opening his library to scholars from around the world in order to facilitate the diffusion of knowledge.