The British Library sits across from London's King's Cross/St Pancras Station, but while the train depot was teeming, the library was muted.
The buildings, whether office blocks, shopping malls or distribution depots (or public libraries, hospitals or schools) are expensive in absolute terms, yet generally good value for money given what they are required to do.
In 2008, Long Beach considered turning its main library into a depot of sorts that would fill book orders for neighborhood branch libraries.
The Library previously had a book storage depot in Woolwich, south-east London, which is no longer in use.
The largest book restitution operation in library history, the "Offenbach Archival Depot" was housed in the former headquarters of I.G.
The comfortable library of the MAYFLOWER INN in Washington Depot (Route 47; 860-868-9466) is a welcome backdrop, complete with toasty wood-burning fireplace, for an order of tea and plate of house-made cookies, not a formal afternoon tea.
"Whittierites' loyalties are not restricted to museums, libraries, theaters, depots and the like.
Working with the Superintendence for Architectural Heritage and the railroad, they dug into the floor of the depot to create a lower level and accommodate the soaring library, a massive, latticed steel frame with walls of glass.
"It just can't close". But over the objections of Ms. Rogers, and many other book lovers in this affluent village, the library -- which is bulging at the seams in a former train depot -- may indeed have to close.
Among the changes: new apartment complexes; renovated historic buildings; a gleaming $35 million public library overlooking the river; a revamped Beaux-Arts Metro-North Railroad depot; and an upscale multistory glass-enclosed restaurant towering above an old pier.
Ms. Robinson will be doing readings and book signings for "Cost" on June 20 at the Katonah Village Library in Katonah at 7 p.m.; on June 21 at the Hickory Stick Bookshop in Washington Depot, Conn., at 1 45 p.m.; and on June 22 at the Hiram Halle Memorial Library in Pound Ridge at 4 p.m.
