This area on the first floor of Stockton Central Library is home to the Reference Library and Family History Suite but many may remember it as the Children’s Library.
Picture Stockton Archive
A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
This area on the first floor of Stockton Central Library is home to the Reference Library and Family History Suite but many may remember it as the Children’s Library.
I can remember it being the Children’s Library up until the late 1990s when the children’s section was moved into the main library to make way for the Open Technology Centre- this was in 1998 as I recall. One of the first signs of technology encroaching on the more traditional understanding of the library as a place for books.
This would also demonstrate that the dreaded phenomenon of the display shelf (where one or two books are placed on a shelf front cover facing out, in order to catch the eye of the browser, instead of the usual means of storing books spine facing out) is older than I thought.