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"reading room" Definitions
  1. a room in a library, club, etc. where people can read or study

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There is, indeed, a reading room — a large reading room of 11,000 square feet.
The reading room was quiet and crowded with other researchers.
No adjective I know does justice to the reading room itself.
The library's original reading room is now part of the Pinacoteca.
The top floor will house a reading room and archival materials.
That's not even mentioning the reading room, with "wedding cake" ceiling beading.
A few days later, he said that the reading room was ready.
The towers have been fitted with small bathrooms and an intimate reading room.
CT town hall at Drake University's Cowles Library Reading Room in Des Moines.
Reading Room - Michael Bloomberg is paying big bucks to make himself meme-able.
Snapshot: Above, the Labrouste reading room at the Sainte-Geneviève Library in Paris.
Read the full story, written by a full (virtual) reading room of people, here.
Like this Rose Main Reading Room ceiling umbrella, to keep those borrowed books dry.
It was Nellie's toy room, Olivia's reading room, Steve's game room, and Luke's tree house.
The exhibition will feature a photobook reading room with complementary selections by the Aperture staff.
In 2017, the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia opened a reading room dedicated to Jorjadze.
The big moment, when she was shown her grandfather's manuscript, occurred in a reading room.
The staircase in the back of the living area leads up to the reading room.
The sun beats down on a small reading room underneath what's left of a shredded roof.
At the University of Chicago, we loved the Hogwarts-like reading room and the pierogi truck.
That idea is best encapsulated in the mural under the dome of the main reading room.
The works are separated into their own darkened rooms with a reading room in the center.
The New York Public Library's historic Rose Reading Room is one of the city's grandest architectural gems.
They have a really quiet reading room where you can just sit and look at the river.
The New York Public Library's Rose Main Reading Room and Bill Blass Catalog Room acquired landmark status.
But upstairs the beautiful and calm old reading room remains as it was a hundred years ago.
In addition to a living room, the layout includes a tearoom, a reading room and an office.
Nance also directed the prosecution to establish a digital public reading room for unclassified documents in the case.
The turret is home to a 23.18-by-24-foot reading room, with four windows overlooking the countryside.
Upstairs, in the hallways adjacent to the Rose Main Reading Room, is a companion exhibition of contemporary art.
The finishing touch in getting the reading room ready was filling the empty shelves back up with books.
In a palm reading room, you sit across from someone, likely a stranger, separated by a solid wall.
It was bound for the majestic Rose Main Reading Room, which opened recently after a two-year restoration.
The second hall connects to a reading room and the kitchen, which opens onto an outdoor eating area.
In the past, anyone could go to the archive, request documents and view them in its reading room.
Light pours through huge windows into a triple-height, wood-paneled reading room for the state book collections.
The reading room seats are hard; the walls are barred and prisonlike; the pencils bristle like shot arrows.
The Justice Department will have a secure reading room available for lawmakers and their staff between between 10 a.m.
For Olivia (Carla Gugino), it takes on the shape of a reading room; for Luke (Julian Hilliard), a treehouse.
Stairs in the loft lead to a tower, used as a reading room, overlooking downtown and Lucas Oil Stadium.
Afterward, Sabatier heads to the central New York Public Library to work on his blog in its reading room.
I thought about the grandfather clock from my law school days, ticking by my nook in the reading room.
They just slid off onto the floor, leaving "Reading Room" exactly the way it was when I came in.
In graduate school, the iconic reading room of the New York Public Library's main branch became a frequent destination.
At my back, an immense, hushed, empty reading room designed by Jacopo Sansovino and decorated by Titian and Veronese.
When I first came to New York, we did a thing called the Pamphlet Architecture Reading Room in 1980.
"I'm honored to service the public in our newly renovated state of the art reading room," Lawson told Hyperallergic.
Philip Mui, research materials data coordinator, called up a car to the elevator in the center of the Reading Room.
The Rose Main Reading Room stretches over a space equal to two city blocks, with a 52-foot-high ceiling.
This floor also contains a sitting/reading room with an attached miniature solarium by Marston & Langinger, and the paneled library.
A Whitman-inspired musical drama, "More or Less I Am," will be at Bryant Park's outdoor Reading Room on Saturday.
The occupants of the small reading room are all middle-age men poring over newspapers in at least three languages.
Have they simply gone into hiding somewhere at the National Archives or the reading room at the Library of Congress?
Back in my hospital room, my mind went to the last time I found myself in a radiology reading room.
Many of the venues — which include a former hardware store and a Christian Science reading room — are hours apart by car.
WHEN WATTPAD opened its online reading room in 2006, its catalogue contained chiefly public-domain tear-jerkers like "Sense and Sensibility".
The new spaces allow in lots of natural light — especially in the reading room, where scholars can study the old manuscripts.
The telephone on the archivist's desk in the Reading Room rang, and it was the reception desk downstairs in the lobby.
The Reading Room is definitely a favorite tourist photo stop (no flash, please), but it's also a hub of local life.
Fans of the Jewelry Library, a small reading room and gallery, say it fills a gap in New York's jewelry scene.
One option would be for FBI agents to be allowed to come to the committee's reading room and review the documents.
On a rainy Thursday afternoon in October, Bella Noche sashayed into the reading room at the North Forest Park library in Queens.
Off the entrance hall is what was once the library's private reading room, now used as a bedroom with en suite bathroom.
The book remained in Eccarius's family and is now being sold complete with a unique bookmark—a British Library reading room ticket.
On the ground floor, with its marble flooring, there is a library and a reading room with sea views and French doors.
Working in the Reading Room with me would be Ina, whose thoroughness and perceptivity in doing research I had learned to trust.
Four days later, they hosted the first Civic Saturday in the basement reading room of the Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle.
Alina Tenser's installation "Reading Room," at Crush Curatorial, centers on a waist-high, S-shaped wooden table with a fabric-covered top.
Reading Room For most readers and writers — and book lovers in general — the library holds a special place of honor and respect.
And despite its salacious name, a pornography reading room is simply a space within a corrections facility where convicts can view such materials.
Sàn Art, a gallery and reading room that opened in Ho Chi Minh City in 2007, added the Lab in May of 2012.
Another personal highlight was Rafael Domenech's "Notations from an American landscape" (2017–19), which presents itself as a reading room of massive cutouts.
Then he led me into a space that's part reading room, part shrine, and part art project masquerading as a bed-and-breakfast.
Boyd said that Office of Legislative Affairs would operate a secure reading room at the Justice Department between the hours of 10 a.m.
Inside the 18th-century farmhouse, there's a wine cellar, a whisky library and a reading room with books on cooking, wildflowers and birdsong.
From the beginning, they served a dual purpose: Stacked one on top of another, they held up the grand, chandelier-lit reading room.
Rest your legs at Looksee Looksee, a 237-seat reading room stocked with an eclectic collection of books on design, art and food.
The vestibule and the great reading room that Michelangelo designed for the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana are open to the public during temporary exhibitions.
ISTANBUL, Turkey — In the hushed reading room of the Turkish-German Bookstore, you'd hardly know Turkey and Germany are seething at each other.
Click here to view original GIFThe New York Public Library's Rose Main Reading Room is one of the most majestic spaces in the city.
Should some need a quieter haven, they can wind their way up the creaky stairs of the main bookshop to the old reading room.
Barely a month after the new Texas senator was sworn in, the Republican senators held a retreat in an ornate Library of Congress reading room.
In an archive reading room where Kearns wasn't allowed to bring in anything but a pencil, the staff brought out a couple boxes to review.
It had a reading room, a project funded by the British Embassy and British Council to stock libraries with English books in cities across Myanmar.
Committee staff have been able to review the documents in a reading room at the Justice Department and then obtain copies of documents of interest.
On one side of a busy city road is a decadent and historic reading room where Dane's study literature forming the foundation of their Kingdom.
When he died in 1886, the former governor Samuel J. Tilden left $2.4 million to establish a "free library and reading room" in New York.
This year's highlights include a historical exhibition of zine publishing, outdoor projects exploring the immigrant experience in the US, and an immersive interactive reading room!
The living room, dining room and a sitting room form a single elongated space beyond the reading room, running nearly the length of the house.
The reading room, lined with two levels of bookshelves and huge arched windows overlooking Bryant Park, is one of the great spaces of New York.
Structured as an exhibition, spaces on the ground floor beneath the performance hall will house a pop-up canteen, experimental reading room and conversation series.
Whitewashed, cavernous and presided over by a pair of enormous 18th-century globes, this elegantly spare reading room is now used for exhibits and lectures.
The architecture reflects the cardinal's aim: From the second-floor galleries, museumgoers can look down at academics working in a nobly proportioned atriumlike reading room.
It's sitting on the cold floor of the Rose Main Reading Room, looking up at the ceiling and feeling like a student of the city.
Each wall of the library reading room at the New York Academy of Medicine is lined with tall wooden bookshelves holding leather-bound medical tomes.
The report is locked in a secure reading room, available only to senators and a few key aides, and exists only on a single paper copy.
Darcey Leonard, founder of Tarot Society, a divination reading room in New York City, tells Refinery29 her feelings about the term are, in a word, mixed.
The income from people staying at MBnb makes the free access to the reading room possible for people who visit by appointment but don't stay overnight.
In the reading room, the first thing I noticed was that there were images of eagles everywhere, and decals and insignia galore all over the walls.
Billed as "O's Reading Room," the conversation with Tara Westover — author of the best-selling memoir Educated — was akin to joining Oprah's book club in person.
What looks like the biggest shelf of all, in the center of the main reading room, is in fact the structural core of the Baccarat tower.
In October, 2010, an Italian religious historian named Alberto Melloni stood over a small cherrywood box in the reading room of the Laurentian Library, in Florence.
Unlike previous releases, the current batch of emails in State's online reading room was not searchable by subject, sender or recipient, as reported by Fox News.
And anyone seeking a glimpse of the new train can spot it behind the book request desk in the middle of the Rose Main Reading Room.
Until that could be guaranteed, there was no chance of allowing the public into the main reading room or the adjoining Bill Blass Public Catalog Room.
As the New York Public Library's magnificent 42nd Street reading room prepared to close temporarily because of the virus, regulars wondered when they would be back.
They will be allowed to physically handle one box at a time or view the entire digital collection all at once on a reading room laptop.
As an overnight guest at the B&B, I'll have access to all of them inside the Reading Room up until it closes at 10 p.m.
Designed by the Norwegian firm Snohetta, it comprises a 63,26-square-foot reading room, four museums, several galleries, a conference center, a planetarium and gift shops.
" At the time, the FBI said the records were "posted automatically and electronically to the FBI's public reading room in accordance with the law and established procedures.
The hotel's private salon, veranda, garden and reading room offer a quiet space to enjoy a book from the library or a cocktail from the honor bar.
That day, I entered a reading room filled with files scattered around tables, and I was told that I wasn't allowed to take pictures with my phone.
Women were forbidden from the main reading room at first but by 1885, when Lummis arrived in Los Angeles from the Midwest, women were running the place.
Believe it or not, there's an even larger reading room in the complex — Jean-Louis Pascal's glass-topped Salle Ovale — but it's closed until 2020 for renovations.
Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Gallery This presentation is less an exhibition than a walk-in archive and reading room and, in that, it is intimate and inspiring.
I watched her sheepishly from my nook in the law school reading room, near the nine-foot-tall grandfather clock carved with a statue of Lady Justice.
The reading room - a space that seats around 50 people in a Jerusalem office tower where the archive is housed - is not shutting down entirely, Lozowick says.
The Reading Room, Writers Den, and Poetry Garden are additional common spaces where guests are invited to unwind from their urban adventures and explore over 6,000 books.
She vlogged herself gathering written evidence in the Rose Maine Reading Room, then recorded her findings in a separate video essay "featuring actual research" on the corset.
One such piece, a "reading room" built in 1988 to commemorate the martyred Italian-American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, has been reconstituted at Met Breuer.
The Justice Department is due to start providing a secure reading room for select lawmakers to review more of the special counsel's report than was released last week.
It hosts a reading room in which you'll find feminist texts by the likes of Rosi Braidotti and Donna Haraway, with Allahyari adding to the selection over time.
A few feet away, the kitchen is little more than a recess between the bedroom and reading room, but it nevertheless gives the apartment an entirely homey feel.
When the building opens in October, it will dedicate its 300-foot-long ground level to functions (gallery, cafe, reading room) that serve the academic and local communities.
The only other artwork in the old reading room is a Caravaggio still life: a basket of slightly worm-eaten fruit stuck with a few pocked, withered leaves.
"The agreement we made with the Department of Justice was to create a reading room and allow one member and two investigators to review the documents," Nunes said.
Their work space has the feel of a cozy reading room, with lots of exposed brick and shelves crammed with books (along with the occasional bottle of bourbon).
The festival acts as an international colloquium where artists and audience mingle in the lobby and newly installed reading room (filled with books specifically chosen by UTR participants).
"These materials became available for release and were posted automatically and electronically to the FBI's public reading room in accordance with the law and established procedures," the statement said.
"On some level I feel that this is an installation, it's not a show," says Leibovitz over coffee in an improvised reading room nestled amid the defunct industrial equipment.
The conveyor system goes into operation the week of October 3, coinciding with the October 5 reopening of the Reading Room following its closure for two years of restoration.
Stops along the way include mini spa-like treatments with vegan skin-care brand Nuria and a preview of early-release hardcovers in Book of the Month's reading room.
The first floor also has a gym, a shower room, a games room and a reading room with a marble fireplace, twin glazed ceiling atriums and a minstrels' gallery.
"We had a little rosette problem," New York Public Library (NYPL) President Tony Marx explained at today's ribbon-cutting ceremony for the reopening of the Rose Main Reading Room.
And a few months ago, I stood in its main reading room — a huge multistory terraced space in a building designed to evoke the sun peeking over the horizon.
Some contentious issues remain unsettled on Fifth Avenue, including the ultimate fate of the stacks under the Rose Reading Room, recently designated an interior landmark, in the Schwarzman building.
Upon opening the glass door, two staircases immediately come into view: the staircase that leads down to the cellar and the staircase that leads up to the reading room.
Upstairs are two en-suite bedrooms and a spacious master suite with a reading room, a dressing room and a spalike bathroom with a steam shower and soaking tub.
Designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and LMN Architects, the building has a "Book Spiral," one all-red floor and great viewing spots from the 10th-floor reading room.
Some of that intelligence pointing to Iran as the culprit has now been made available to U.S. senators in a classified reading room, senators and their aides said Tuesday.
There's a kind of reading room with old china cups hanging from the eaves, and a balcony that will be open in the summer with views over Rockefeller Plaza.
Scattered in and around the Athenaeum's rotunda and reading room, the pieces are bathed in natural light, situated in a space where study and reading are the expected pursuits.
There will be conversations with artists, writers and others as part of Frieze Talks, and a collection of art publications available in the Reading Room, should you need to decompress.
But you can see how these keeps out the sun from the reading room, and the sun comes up to about 800 millimeters into the space and that's about it.
With a look inspired by European cafes and a reading room atmosphere, it will sell coffee, merchandise and writing materials, along with play scripts, librettos and books about the arts.
It's large, open space functions as a reading room, but why would anyone be nose-down in a book next to the multi-chromatic aluminum outcroppings that color the space?
Mr. Talley, 68, did not rise from his position on a sofa, seated like a pasha amid enormous pillows, in his cozy TV-reading room with its leopard-print carpet.
Twice a week I signed in at the front desk, deposited my backpack in a locker (only pencils could be brought upstairs) and entered a quiet and cold reading room.
That is where, day after day in the Reading Room of the British Museum, he did the research for "Capital," and it is where, in Highgate Cemetery, he is buried.
To my great surprise, I chuckled all the way through the script, disturbing other readers in the sanctum sanctorum of the Harry Ransom Center reading room with my unladylike snorts.
It also offers a reading room, a pop-up bookstore and an exhibit illustrating the full process of a book's creation: "We Are the Ship," by Kadir Nelson, a Pratt alumnus.
Ms. Smith, who was Mr. Roth's idea, will speak in what used to be the main reading room, an upstairs space with 22-foot ceilings and limestone fireplaces at either end.
She plans to expand that teaching mission by turning the Summer Kitchen into a reading room — a cozy refuge in winter — and is raising funds for a $25 million education center.
History lives on at Village Hall, home to the 22014-seat Town Hall Theater, modeled after Ford's Theatre in Washington, and the restored Tiffany Reading Room, designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Michael took me on a tour of the public rooms (sitting room, library, salon, reading room, billiard room), and then we knocked on the door of Hector's suite, all without result.
Per the standard procedure for FOIA, these materials became available for release and were posted automatically and electronically to the FBI's public reading room in accordance with the law and established procedures.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee's new bill is being kept in a "dedicated reading room," Bloomberg reported, where it will be available to members of the panel ahead of a markup.
The 1867 library's main hall, the Labrouste reading room, is flooded with space and light thanks to an otherworldly series of colorfully decorated domed skylights, supported by tall, thin cast iron columns.
Opening those boxes in the stillness of the Ahmanson Reading Room and noisily extracting spiral-bound notebooks from manila envelopes, I envisioned an essay on Butler and her relationship with greater Los Angeles.
That resulted in dramatic changes in how they have responded, to which we now have an office down at the Department of Justice, a reading room, where nearly a million documents now reside.
In statements, the FBI has noted that it is required by law to post documents that have been requested by three separate people to its public reading room (in this case, "The Vault").
In fact, as in the other great libraries I visited, the Laurenziana's reading room is now primarily a showpiece, with side rooms of a later and lesser vintage used for lectures and exhibits.
The couple met in 2011 at the Albert D. Hutzler Reading Room on the campus of Johns Hopkins, which the groom also attended for one year before transferring to the University of Texas.
I pulled out a pencil and a clean sheet of paper, and right there in the reading room I wrote her a note, an invitation to visit Harvard and lead a poetry workshop.
Thanks to a good word from the Vassar librarian, Moore agreed to meet her young admirer at a bench outside the main reading room of the New York Public Library, in April, 21970.
The project is intended to be self-perpetuating: Joe uses the money he earns from the endeavor to fund his growing collection of Broodthaers-related objects, which then appear in the reading room/shrine.
The exhibition's mixed presentation makes it feel like the best type of reading room, one where browsing leads to unexpected discoveries, and one that reflects something about why many people travel to new places.
Ahead of its consideration by a House energy and commerce subcommittee, beginning today, the new top-secret proposal will be made available, but only in a dedicated reading room and only to certain members.
It is expected to be available to members and staffers on the House and Energy Commerce panel starting Thursday, but only in a dedicated reading room, one Republican lawmaker and a committee aide said.
With a reading room, three different food areas with a panoramic restaurant on the seventh floor, the City expects nearly 38 million euros of economic activity in terms of job creation and tourism every year.
The document posted to the bureau's Freedom of Information Act Reading Room and dated May 2, 2016, contains the text of an email from Comey to other FBI personnel, forwarded by FBI official James Rybicki.
At a time when airplanes were only carrying one or two people across the Atlantic Ocean, the Hindenburg was flying paid passengers, who enjoyed its dining room, reading room, passenger lounge, and even smoking room.
The reading room will reclaim the sumptuous sheen it acquired in the late 22.7s, during a restoration financed in large part by a $4203 million donation from the Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose Foundation.
He is voraciously completist, recording impressions of each journey, place, building and reading room, as well as every recoverable detail of each manuscript's creation, content and existence as a physical object through time and space.
After paying the 70-pound admission fee, I signed up for a free tour in English; my guide, Shirouk Yassin, was helpful and answered questions as we made our way into the main reading room.
My dream day would begin with a moment of reverence before Caravaggio's humbly ravishing "Madonna di Loreto" in the Basilica di Sant'Agostino before I settled into a leather chair in the Angelica's main reading room.
A selection of Allen's books are also on display under glass in the cabinets of a nearby reading room, where comfy chairs, a Persian rug, and a covered piano provide an atmosphere of tasteful gentility.
We spent most of the time in a reading room they added on to the back of the house, a nook filled with natural light and hundreds of books on shelves reaching high toward the ceiling.
The first floor hosts a café, an auditorium and a cinema; the second has a reading room, recording studios and a gadgets store, where city-dwellers can rent power tools, sewing machines and even 3D printers.
How it happened: "So, the agreement we made with the Department of Justice was to create a reading room and allow one member and two investigators to go over and review the documents," Nunes told Baier.
The setup, explained Kinoshita, is much like how library books in a basement get delivered to a reading room, or how cars parked in multi-tiered garages are recalled from underground storage spaces to street level.
What books might be in your room in the Library Hotel in New York where each floor celebrates one of the 10 categories of the Dewey Decimal System and a reading room is open 24 hours?
A breakfast buffet, 24/7 refreshments in the Reading Room lounge, evening wine and cheese reception, rooftop garden access, a selection of bestselling eBooks, and passes to a nearby New York Sports Club were all included.
" David R. Neikirk, OML's digital imaging coordinator, added that the globes are currently "displayed in our reading room, and it's a case and has a mirror behind it, so you can see the full 360 degrees.
That Saturday, Heather Gaffney-Darnell, the tarot reader, sat in one corner knitting, while shop owner Lisa Svencicki offered guests free ginger tea in the reading room, filled with copies of the Portland activist zine W.I.T.C.H. PDX.
Not long ago, she was sitting in a sort of reading room at Globo Studios, a sprawling 17.5-million-square-foot mini-city on Rio de Janeiro's outskirts, where five or six soaps are filmed each day.
Committee staff have been able to review the documents in a reading room at the Justice Department and then obtain copies of documents of interest -- a laborious process being overseen by US Attorney John Lausch from Chicago.
Long before I had ever been there myself, I heard my father describe in rapturous terms the countless hours he had spent in what is now the Rose Reading Room, and the respite that he found there.
This joins 43 titles available in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Online Reading Room, 281 from Getty Publications' Virtual Library, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art MetPublications's whopping 1,611 books you can download for free.
There were rare first editions of classics like "The Scarlet Letter," political treatises and hand-scribbled family histories, all stored within easy reach in seven football-field-size floors of stacks just below the main reading room.
The second floor, with electronic equipment and workrooms, is for noisy creative activity, and the top floor, an open-plan, brightly lit "book heaven" with rows of white stacks, is a conventional, if inordinately tasteful, reading room.
And the substitution — which would have involved dismantling and reassembling the book — could not have taken place in the reading room, under the eyes of other scholars, or along a corridor, where staff members could walk by.
"The Marciana was built here as part of the 16th-century project to create a triumphal entry to the city from the lagoon," he said, joining me on the balcony off the "salone," Sansovino's palatial reading room.
The Van Brunt diary has long been available for viewing, in a temperature-controlled room by appointment only, at the New York Public Library Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room for rare books and manuscripts on Fifth Avenue.
Koller didn't acquire the same personal taste for the drug as Freud, which we know because an unused sample was found in 1995 among a collection of his papers housed in the Library of Congress reading room.
People from other disciplines may literally be stopped in their tracks by what's going on in the transparent ground-floor galleries and workshops, or be drawn inside by a glimpse of people studying in the treehouselike reading room.
Credit Eric Hammarberg, an engineer at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, for ensuring all that delicate, ornamental plaster on the decorated ceiling of the Rose Reading Room atop the 232nd Street library, which had begun collapsing, won't fall down.
" As museumgoers wandered in and out of the reading room, bemused by the sight of Ms. Sidibe and me hunkered down on a sofa there, she said: "Honestly, I think women in general have a lot of guilt.
Since 2009 its Notting Hill building has been divided between a bookshop and a literary agency — and the presence of the highbrow mood of the agency is what sets the tone for the prevailing silence of the reading room.
"Austere" was the word that came to mind as I entered his crepuscular vestibule and ascended to the portal of the reading room on a flight of oval steps carved from a somber gray stone known as pietra serena.
In 2014, Paul W. Ruppert, owner of Petworth Citizen & Reading Room, at 829 Upshur Street, a literary bar that has served cocktails inspired by Robert Burns and Haruki Murakami, was offered a lease on newly vacant space next door.
The two-bedroom home boasts en-suite bathrooms and amenities like TV and WiFi (so you can stream Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, perhaps?) as well as a reading room complete with a log fire, and a courtyard garden.
In the rare books reading room at the British Library (where I went to write), I spent a lot of time entering online contests, filling out form after form in the hope of winning vacations, designer clothes and theater tickets.
The first floor has a formal dining room with an antique chandelier, a reading room with elaborate millwork, a large living room with a coffered ceiling, a laundry room and an open chef's kitchen with doors leading to an outdoor patio.
One evening last month, after the traditional cocktails and black-tie meal, the members of the Century Association gathered in the reading room of their Renaissance-style clubhouse on West 43rd Street and, with little fanfare, made a bit of literary history.
Mr. Mensching collaborated with Yohannes Aynalem of EverGreene in recreating the Finn murals in the reading room, so this is his second time immersed in the deep coffers of the ceiling and among the leafy brackets and budding rosettes that surround them.
Its cloudy ceiling mural now mirrors those of the Reading Room, thanks to a re-creation of the original by EverGreene Architectural Arts; the original mural by James Wall Finn was deemed beyond repair due to decades of decay and bad overpainting.
Siddartha Lokanandi organized the reading at his bookstore, Hopscotch Reading Room, where, in addition to encountering a wide range of books, whose haphazard arrangement makes for surprises and delights, you can also buy beer and other spirits long after the sun has departed.
Nestled on a quiet street in Montparnasse, the Institute features the sculptor's reconstructed Paris studio as well as a reading room, bringing visitors into immediate contact with documents and artifacts that shaped Giacometti's outlook, as well as his studio notes and writings.
Reading room visitors increased by 25 percent to 50 percent in each of the first three months of 2017 over last year, and there was an overall 29 percent increase in overnight stays by scholars, writers and others in the same period.
On Wednesday, Bloomberg reported the bill was being kept in a reading room in the Capitol and only available for members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and their staff to read, in an attempt to avoid leaks to the press.
Turn an Unused Nook into a Reading Room Adding bookshelves, a bench and some cute wall-mounted lighting to an unused space like a dead-end hallway or a pass-through room, creates an instant (and adorable) reading nook like the one pictured above.
Fora opened its first space in Clerkenwell in February 2017, kitted out with bright, open-plan co-working areas, desks, bespoke offices, an Italian restaurant, bar, a library with a fireplace, a forum space, lounges, phone booths, a reading room, bike storage, and meeting rooms.
With its 21-foot-high ceiling, bookcases stuffed with faded, leather-bound volumes and walls festooned with oil portraits that seem to wink, the second floor reading room of the New-York Historical Society bears a striking resemblance to a certain fictional school for wizards.
It includes a large picture window wall, a glassed-in reading room high above the main floor, an elevator bay, a small corridor, very few 90-degree corners, and numerous other elements that make the architecture an unavoidable consideration for artists working in the space.
The new Milstein Research Stacks below Bryant Park support a capacity of 4.3 million books, which means many research requests can be fulfilled almost immediately on-site, with tomes arriving at the center of the Reading Room on the brand new "book train" conveyor system.
One option was to tag along so I could scope out this 239th-century library's intimate Rococo reading room and marvel at its most vaunted possession, a sixth-century gospel manuscript written in silver ink on purple dyed vellum known as the Evangeliario Purpureo.
When my parents got a new refrigerator, my father cut a door and windows in the box it came in, creating a playhouse for me — or, rather, a private reading room, where I could hide out with a stack of books and a flashlight.
The new research stacks hold part of the archive that had been kept in storage space under the main reading room — seven floors of century-old metal shelves — that library officials said was no longer suitable for preserving the approximately 2.5 million research materials kept there.
Charles Warren, a Manhattan architect who opposed the library's original plan to move the three million books off-site, said it was "a real concern" that only a portion of those books were being returned to Manhattan, especially since the stacks under the reading room are empty.
The main reading room of the library's main building — arguably the hub of humanities research in New York, and no small tourist attraction in its Gilded Age majesty — has been closed since May 228, when a plaster rosette 22014 inches in diameter dropped from the ornate ceiling.
A reading room dominated by a turquoise wall and a traditional Tibetan Buddhist thangka painting, a favorite among Mr. Su's pieces, leads to the main living room, which then flows out to a glass-encased sunroom, complete with an amethyst velvet-upholstered daybed and colorful leather armchairs.
Bloomberg reported Wednesday that the bill was expected to be made available to members and staffers of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday in a dedicated reading room, and that they will not be able to take copies of the bill out of that room. Rep.
The library's ornate 218th-century reading room, the Sala Federiciana, is incorporated into the museum, and, starting in 2009, it has been used to display the institution's greatest treasure: Leonardo's Codex Atlanticus, a collection of 1,119 sheets of drawings and captions on subjects ranging from botany to warfare.
"I'm all for digitization, but the way it has been handled here raises serious questions of propriety," said Lior Yavne of the Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research, which, backed by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, has demanded reassurances that the reading room will stay open.
The Cranbrook show additionally features a graphic design section and a reading room with selections curated in collaboration with Maia Asshaq, co-founder of Detroit's boutique bookstore du jour, Ditto Ditto, co-organizer of the wildly popular annual Detroit Art Book Fair, and local expert on limited-run publishing.
The empty twilight interior "Boston Library" (2017) — its dark vaulted reading room drained of its purpose, its staff and readers gone home — is filled with strange night lights dimly lit along the walls, while the crepuscular gleam of sky, painted a deep, heart-stopping blue, is glimpsed through the windows.
I took an elevator up to the library's tenth floor, to be interviewed by an archivist and given a card admitting me to the library's Reading Room, where researchers had their desks; the card was good for a year, and would have to be renewed at the end of that time.
Taking a phone call in the middle of the reading room is frowned upon, but you should also be aware that the intermittent chirps of incoming text messages can be just as obnoxious as a loud conversation or ring tone — so switching your cell phone to silent is a must.
All the remarks at the Reading Room ceremony emphasized the books just as much as the community space — an important message after the dropping of a proposed, controversial renovation that would have favored a tech-heavy user experience and spaces out of sync with the historic aesthetic of the building.
But for a certain kind of New Yorker, the news on Friday that the New York Public Library would be closing the soaring Rose Main Reading Room in its 42nd Street flagship — along with its 91 other locations — at least until April 1 caused a special kind of sadness and alarm.
When I found my way to college I also found my way to a library that had a reading room in which were displayed the literary and cultural weeklies and quarterlies — Partisan Review and The Hudson Review and Kenyon Review, the arts and culture sections of The New Republic and The Nation.
Boyd said that the Office of Legislative Affairs would operate a secure reading room at the Justice Department next week for those lawmakers to review the report "in camera" and would give lawmakers the chance to review the less-redacted report in the secure spaces on Capitol Hill the following week, when lawmakers return from a two-week recess.
The distraction-free library ethos is actually a city tradition, from the private tranquil libraries of stately homes such as North London's 17th-century estate Kenwood House in Hampstead Heath to the British Library's Reading Room in King's Cross — a place where the etiquette policy strongly discourages the presence of mobile phones entirely with tactfully placed signs.
The way things worked, you'd fill out a slip for the boxes you wanted, and in an hour or so an archivist would arrive in the Reading Room wheeling a cart with the boxes on it, and put them on a cart next to your desk, each one landing with an impressively, and depressingly, heavy thud.
I found it interesting that she neither announced her forthcoming book nor read from it, perhaps because she had done a reading a few weeks earlier at Hopscotch Reading Room and resists repeating herself (which makes for an interesting contrast with her use of repetition in her poetry — just one of many things I find compelling about her work).
Mystical outposts like the Tarot Society Gallery & Reading Room in Brooklyn offer public lectures such as "Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive" and popular social gatherings including New Age & Chill, where visitors are invited to "collectively embrace our Indigo Child and float up on a cloud of sage smoke" while listening to music by Enya.

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