Orton Library

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The Orton Memorial Library of Geology occupies the oldest library location on campus and houses books, serials, maps, dissertations/theses, and other formats covering multiple areas of earth sciences. More than 200,000 geologic and topographic maps of the US and the world are available.

There is plenty of free parking and a bus stop in the Ortongate Shopping Centre. The library is in the large building by the grass behind the main shops, at the opposite end to QD, and is in the same building as Ormiston Bushfield Academy with its own entrance. Photos and a video at the bottom of this page show how to enter.

The butcher for whom my dad worked also ran a horsemeat business, the meat strictly for non-human consumption and accordingly painted bright green. In his cattle truck Mr Banks would go out into the Surrey countryside to collect carcasses and sometimes, by dint of hanging around the lorry, I got to go with him. I would watch as the bloated cow or horse was winched on board and then we would drive to the slaughterhouse in Walnut Tree Close just by Guildford Station. While the carcass was dismembered I would sit in the corner absorbed in my latest William book. Richmal Crompton can seldom have been read in such grisly and uncongenial circumstances.

With its mixture of readers and its excellent facilities (it was a first-rate library) and the knowledge that there would always be someone working there whom I knew and who would come out for coffee, I found some of the pleasure going to the reference library that, had I been less studious, I could have found in a pub. Over the next ten years while I still thought I might turn into a medieval historian I became something of a connoisseur of libraries, but the reference library in Leeds always seemed to me one of the most congenial. It was there, on leave from the army, that I discovered they held a run of Horizon, the literary magazine started by Cyril Connolly in 1940, and that I eventually did get a scholarship to Oxford I put down to the smattering of culture I gleaned from its pages.

It had glamour, too, for me and getting in first at nine one morning I felt, opening my books, as I had when a small boy at Armley Baths and I had been first in there, the one to whom it fell to break the immaculate stillness of the water, shatter the straight lines tiled on the bottom of the bath and set the day on its way.

While the films are currently only available for viewing on-site, Archives & Special Collections hopes to make them accessible online sometime in the future. Digitization was made possible by the library's Orton Fund.

Inquiries regarding reproduction of images should be directed to the Head, Archives and Special Collections, Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library, Columbia University, 701 West 168th St., New York, NY 10032 or via email to the Library.

After reading this chapter, I came away with the idea that Orton himself was an unreliable narrator. I think there were probably several reasons for his years-long work on defacing the library books, and he would pull out a reason that sounded right to him in the moment. In some sense, the myriad of reasons were all true, and therefore they were all never quite the whole truth individually.

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In the early 1960s, John (Joe) Orton and Kenneth Halliwell had been secretly stealing books from a London library branch, removing valuable art plates and using them to create alternative dust jackets for other books, which were then returned to the library's shelves, or pasting them directly into a large and uninterrupted collage spanning the interior walls of their flat. The pair would receive a six-month custodial sentence for these actions. Their deaths five years later in 1967 became the sensationalized end to what had largely been a private, enclosed life together, at a time when homosexuality was forbidden by law 'in public and in private'. Orton was murdered by Halliwell who then took his own life. Now, fifty years after the trial, Malicious Damage looks closely at the collaged dust jackets still remaining within the archive at Islington Local History Centre and focuses on the early collaborative nature of Orton and Halliwell's relationship. The book underlines the visual and performative nature of their collaborations and collages.; Foreward by Leonie Orton Barnett.; Introduction by Philip Hoare.

SAIC Digital Collections is the institutional repository for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). It presents curated selections of historic publications, archival materials, and artists' works drawn from the library shelves and special collections throughout our campus. They are offered here for educational and research purposes. For more information on copyright or terms of use for SAIC Digital Collections, please see our Copyright Terms & Conditions page.

The 2023 debut exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from The Lyman Orton Collection broke all attendance records at two southern Vermont museums. The Manchester Community Library exhibition is bringing forth almost 70 artworks that were not previously exhibited locally.

The exhibition will be viewable during regular library hours and admission is free. The library is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday and Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.

Orton Hall is recognized on the National Historical Register of Historical Buildings. It is a magnificent example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. Originally, the building was exclusively constructed using Ohio building stone, arranged in correct stratigraphic order, from Silurian at the base to Carboniferous near the top of the bell tower. The main structure of the building, therefore, represents the Paleozoic Era. The grotesques in the upper reaches of the bell tower depict Mesozoic Era and Cenozoic Era animals, so in total, the building depicts Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic stratigraphy and life forms. The top of the bell tower is decorated with sculptures depicting extinct creatures, including dinosaurs, ichthyosaurs, pterosaurs, and a saber-tooth cat. The iconic bell tower houses 25,000 pounds of bells, added in 1915, that chime every 15 minutes.

A 24-foot dinosaur skeleton, molded from a fossil discovered by Ohio State professor David Elliot, now stands guard in Orton Hall's lobby. The Cryolophosaurus was brought to campus through a crowdfunding campaign that drew donors from all over the world.

The Orton Geological Library has the largest collection of geological literature in the United States. Edward Orton, Jr. donated the funds to redecorate and preserve the library as a memorial to his father, including a portrait of Ohio State Geologists up to the 1940s, and an excellent collection of geological art.

While alone in the basement, many workers have claimed to hear footsteps and the persistent rustling of a dress. Jones is usually spotted as a shadowy figure in a black or white dress. The ghost is harmless, but some say Jones gets angry when books in the library experience water damage.

The Trustees approved of his wish and decided to store his ashes in a plaque. That plaque was then placed in Bricker Hall, where he remains today. It is rumored that sometimes you can see Atkinson in the front lobby drinking punch.

The Warrington Perambulating Library has been described by historian Ian Orton as "one of the most revolutionary library advances of the nineteenth century". Among the earliest mobile libraries in the UK,[1] it was set up by the Warrington Mechanics' Institute in Cheshire, England in 1858. Keen to increase borrowing from its library, the institute determined in the summer of that year to raise money for the purchase of a one-horse van, which it planned to fill with books and send each week "to every door in Warrington and the vicinity".[2]

The event raised 250 (equivalent to 32,000 in 2023[a]), allowing the perambulating library to begin touring the streets of Warrington on 15 November 1858. It was an immediate success, and resulted in the number of books borrowed from the institute's library increasing from 3000 a year to 12,000.[2] The service continued until 1872.[3]

Friday, April 21, 2023. The Orton Memorial Library, located on the campus of CATIE (Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center) celebrates its 80th anniversary, confirming that it continues to be one of the most prestigious libraries in the field of agricultural, agro-environmental and rural development research in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The commemoration activities began on Monday, April 17, with an official ceremony to which the community, CATIE authorities and collaborators, as well as people close to the library, were invited. The event was attended by the library coordinator, Jeffry Jimnez Prez, Muhammad Ibrahim, Director General of CATIE, and Francisco Mello, Manager of Knowledge Management and Horizontal Cooperation of IICA (Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture).

"It is unusual for a library to be 80 years old, especially in a country where librarianship is a relatively new profession. In addition, this library has a very big impact at the Latin American level, not only in Costa Rica, because we serve many people from Canada to Argentina and the Caribbean islands. We also have two institutions such as CATIE and IICA that support us a lot and it is also a library that over the years has had a very important relevance for professionals in librarianship and for the agricultural sector," said Jimnez.

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