Charlotte Canelli is the Library Director in Norwood. Read her entire column in the Norwood Transcript and Bulletin next week.
Excerpt:
Each day diffuse and perfect light enters these gracious rooms through those amazing windows. They are reminders to us that public institutions such as libraries begin as testaments to the strength and character of the community that builds them. Germaine Greer wrote that “libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit; reminders of order, calm and continuity.” Norwood’s strength and character can be found in its gorgeous and uplifting public library with its architectural splendors of both grace, order and continuity.
Read more of the Handbook of the new Boston Public Library compiled by Herbert Small, Curtis and Company, Boston, MA, 1895.
Find out more about the Arts and Crafts Movement at Wikipedia.
Read more about printers' marks in the booklet
Printers' Marks: A Chapter in the History of Typography by William Robert, George Bell and Sons, 1893.
Read a brief description of the Morrill Memorial Library on the library website.