Scanner Room Renovation & Refurbishment August 2011

The Avery Library scanner room (room 220B) will be closed from the beginning of August through late August (about Aug. 23) for the installation of new flooring–with “green” tiling–and new work stations. Three scanners will be available for use during this period.  Two scanners  will be re-located across the 200-level main reading room, near from […]

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Avery Library New Architecture Journals

Title: An Architektur. Published: Berlin : An Architektur. Began in 2002. Subject heading: Architecture Avery location: Avery Classics AB An1 Location: EJOURNALS Title: Candide : journal for architectural knowledge. Published: Bielefeld : Transcript. Began in 2009. Subject heading: Architecture-Philosophy Avery Location: AB C1665         Title: CTBUH journal : tall buildings, design, construction […]

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Happy Birthday Inigo Jones

 Happy Birthday to Inigo Jones, 7/15/1573-6/21/1652! Avery has numerous books in our Classics Collection– one of which is: "The most notable antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stone-heng on Salisbury plain. Restored by Inigo Jones …" Published: London, Printed by James Flesher for Daniel Pakeman and Lawrence Chapman, 1655 : 3 p.l., 109, [1]p. incl. […]

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Avery Library Drawing & Archives–Woodlawn Cemetery

  Woodlawn Cemetery is now a National Historic Landmark! On June 30, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that Woodlawn was one of 14 new national historic landmarks!   Cited for its landscape and architectural design, Woodlawn’s application was strengthened by the archival documentation of its monuments, which are now housed in Avery’s Drawings […]

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