Green Library, on the campus of Stanford University, and collects at least a thousand books, which are taken to an undisclosed location and scanned, page by page, into an enormous database being created by Google.

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The rotating toggle allows users to quickly switch between four modes: green, library, balanced and gaming.

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The library is on the green opposite Friern Barnet library, which was shut earlier this month to cut council spending.

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Andrew Green, the national library's librarian, said the staff were delighted with the appointment.

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The government's rebuilding plan for a modern, low-rise city includes generous amounts of green space, a convention center, library and new sports complex.

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Bernard Green, who devised the system for the Library of Congress that was built a few years earlier than the New York Public Library, was hired as the engineering consultant for the New York stacks.

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The library's striking design includes three "green areas" - a meadow, a terrace knot garden and a rooftop garden escape.

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The irony is that the city recently rezoned the presidential library area, but designated it for urban use instead of as green space for a park.

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