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Manchester Central Library is the headquarters of the city's library and information service in Manchester, England. Facing St Peter's Square, it was designed by E. Vincent Harris and constructed between 1930 and 1934. The form of the building, a columned portico attached to a rotunda domed structure, is loosely derived from the Pantheon, Rome.
The John Rylands Research Institute and Library is a late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England. It is part of the University of Manchester. [4] The library, which opened to the public in 1900, was founded by Enriqueta Augustina Rylands in memory of her husband, John Rylands. [5]
The Portico Library, The Portico or Portico Library and Gallery on Mosley Street in Manchester, England, is an independent subscription library designed in the Greek Revival style by Thomas Harrison of Chester and built between 1802 and 1806. [2] It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II* listed building, having ...
Manchester Library & Information Service. Coordinates: 53.479242°N 2.248737°W. North City Library, Manchester, UK. Didsbury Library. There are 24 public libraries in Manchester, England, including the famous Central Library in St Peter’s Square. The oldest community library still in use is Levenshulme Library in South Manchester, built in 1903.
The Manchester City Library was established in the mid-1850s, and serves the population of Manchester, the largest city in the state of New Hampshire.It is one of twelve libraries in the GMILCS consortium (Greater Manchester Integrated Library Consortial System) that provides materials and services to the greater Manchester area, and is on the U.S. Department of Interior's National Register of ...
Chetham's Library in Manchester, England, is the oldest free public reference library in the English-speaking world. Chetham's Hospital, which contains both the library and Chetham's School of Music, was established in 1653 under the will of Humphrey Chetham (1580–1653), for the education of "the sons of honest, industrious and painful parents", and a library for the use of scholars.
The Manchester Free Library opened on 5 September 1852 in Manchester, England. [1] It was the first public library in England to be set up under the provisions of the Public Libraries Act 1850, [a] which allowed local authorities to impose a local tax of one penny to pay for the service. [2] The terms of the act required that a poll of ...
The University of Manchester Library is the library system and information service of the University of Manchester. The main library is on the Oxford Road campus of the university, with its entrance on Burlington Street. There are also ten other library sites, eight spread out across the university's campus, plus The John Rylands Library on ...