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» Bodleian Library - The official history of one of the oldest libraries in Europe includes photographs and descriptions of the early 17th-century Bodleian Quadrangle and the Georgian Radcliffe Camera - Britain's first circular library.
» Carnegie Libraries of California - History, architecture and use of over 100 libraries constructed between 1902 and 1921 from funding by Andrew Carnegie. Search by city, region, architectural style, or name of architect.
» Carnegie Libraries of Scotland - An illustrated guide by Gerry Blaikie to the architecture and history of libraries funded by Andrew Carnegie in Scotland.
» Great Buildings Online: Libraries - Photographs, dates and discussions of a selection of the world's most outstanding library buildings from ancient to modern, with references.
» Researching the Fabric and Fittings of the Historic Library in the British Isles - Methodology for recording information on library buildings, including a bibliography. [PDF]
» Tales from the Book Room: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Country House Libraries and their Books - Conference paper by Susie West on the absence of contextual information in the historiography of private libraries. [PDF]
» The Sterling Memorial Library - Contemporary description and photographs from the April 1931 issue of the Yale Library Gazette.