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- Alternative meanings: Library (computer science), Library (electronics), Library (biology)
In the traditional sense of the word, a library is a collection of books and periodicals. It can refer to an individual's private collection, but more often it is a large collection that is funded and maintained by a city or institution. This collection is often used by people who choose not to--or cannot afford to--purchase an extensive collection themselves.
However, with the collection or invention of media other than books for storing information, many libraries are now also repositories and access points for maps, prints or other artwork, microfilm, microfiche, audio tapes, CDs, LPs, video tapes and DVDs, and provide public facilities to access CD-ROM and subscription databases and the Internet. Thus, modern libraries are increasingly being redefined as places to get unrestricted access to information in many formats and from many sources.
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females are quiet as libraries right now cus i speak tweet truth! #femalefail
dollurz (Rolin Pettway) Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:03:58 -0000
females are quiet as libraries right now cus i speak tweet truth! #femalefail
TRIGG Performs at St. John Parish Libraries this past summer: http://wp.me/pL0sU-h
triggmagic (Trigg Burrage) Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:58:54 -0000
TRIGG Performs at St. John Parish Libraries this past summer: http://wp.me/pL0sU-h
Just discovered that Ballarat Library has two things Whitehorse libraries didn't - free WiFi and plenty of power points!
billious (Bill Stolk) Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:48:31 -0000
Just discovered that Ballarat Library has two things Whitehorse libraries didn't - free WiFi and plenty of power points!
Video Capture, Movie Playback, Vision Libraries - Using a dvcam as a web-cam in Linux http://bit.ly/86juXe
voidsetup (void setup) Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:15:52 -0000
Video Capture, Movie Playback, Vision Libraries - Using a dvcam as a web-cam in Linux http://bit.ly/86juXe
RT @karamoore: Red Laser app http://bit.ly/PGelh scans books,report which local libraries have copies via Worldcat blog http://bit.ly/8WSCxj
tombike (Tom Catalini) Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:06:51 -0000
RT @karamoore: Red Laser app http://bit.ly/PGelh scans books,report which local libraries have copies via Worldcat blog http://bit.ly/8WSCxj
ha. i just got a raspberry split :) how wonderful :) i shall now go back to my room and eat it. the libraries arent open! no more books :s
figPYBFO (Fiona Li) Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:42:00 -0000
ha. i just got a raspberry split :) how wonderful :) i shall now go back to my room and eat it. the libraries arent open! no more books :s
Archive - History and description of the local history, maritime and geological collections of this English learned society.
Meta Description: [ Whitby Literary & Philosophical Society maintains an extensive library and archives which are invaluable to anyone researching local history or matters of local interest in Whitby town and the surrounding region. Further details of this inportant resource are given in the sections dedicated to bo... ]
Armitt Library - Free educational institution in the Lake District. Bibliographies and artefacts on natural history and local people including Beatrix Potter, Ruskin and the Lake poets.
Exeter Institution - Independent subscription library with collections strong in nineteenth-century periodicals and material on South West England. Photographs, history and membership information.
Midland Institute Library - Book collection dating from 1799 and music library. Events, membership and location map.
Meta Description: [ BMI Library ]
Scientific Institution - Private lending library in London including archives relating to Highgate Village and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Description of collections and lecture programme.
Study Centre - Centre for the Study of Early English Women's Writing, 1600-1830, in Jane Austen's former home. Online texts, history and access.
Association of Independent Libraries - Directory and guide to the history and collections of independent subscription libraries.
Meta Description: [ Independent Libraries ]
Bodleian Library - One of the world's oldest and most famous libraries at Oxford University.
British Film Institute National Library - The bfi National Library provides access to a large collection of documentation and information on film and television.
British Jigsaw Puzzle Library - Lending library of hand made wooden jigsaw puzzles. 3,500 puzzles in current circulation. The club has been in existence since 1933.
Meta Description: [ Offering members the chance to hire wooden
jigsaw puzzles from its 4000 stock of puzzles. ]
British Library of Political and Economic Science - As well as being the working library of the London School of Economics (LSE), the library serves as a national collection of material for research on Social Sciences.
British Library Public Catalogue - A free service to allow you to find out what material is held in the major Reference and Document Supply collections of the British Library.
Meta Description: [ This is the home page of the British Library Integrated Catalogue on the web. This service provides searching of more than 12 million items in
the British Library’s collections and links to other specialised British Library catalogues. It provides remote ordering of copies of documents. The Brit... ]
British Library, Inside - Access to 10.5 million articles from 20,000 premier journals, 2.5 million conference papers, 10,000 new articles daily. Search and order directly over the Web and receive articles within two hours.
Meta Description: [ British Library Inside provides online access to over 20 million STM journal articles and conference papers, plus sdi alerts, abstracts and electronic document delivery. Free trial availability: inside-admin@bl.uk. ]
British Library, Portico - The British Library's Online Information Server. Includes: Blaise - bibliographic records provided by the major departments of the British Library, including Humanities and Social Sciences, the Science Reference and Information Service, Oriental and India Office Collections, Music, Maps and the Document Supply Centre. Gabriel - the information server for Europe's National Libraries and the full text of the Magna Carta.
Meta Description: [ This is the home page of the British Library website. Use this site to search our catalogues, order items for research, view exhibitions and link to information resources worldwide. The Library conserves knowledge for future generations. It is the UK's leading research library. ]
Chetham's Library - Founded in 1653 in Manchester, England and open free of charge. History, list of manuscripts and online catalogue.
Meta Description: [ Chetham's Library ]
COPAC - Unified access to the catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland.
Familia - Index of family history resources held by public libraries in Britain and Ireland
Inner Temple Library - A law library for Inner Temple members and for barrister members of the other Inns of Court. Includes a history of the Inner Temple.
Leadhills Reading Society - Official site of the oldest subscription library in Britain, founded in 1741. History of the library and the village, photographs and information for visitors.
Library History Database: The British Isles to 1850 - Directory with summary information arranged geographically and by type of library.
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, National Library of Wales - Details of available documents, search the catalogues of the photographic, picture and prints collections.
Meta Description: [ National, Library, Wales, Llyfrgell, Genedlaethol, Cymru, Welsh, Books, Maps, Manuscripts, Records, Archives, Bibliography, Pictures, Photographs, Treasures ]
Marx Memorial Library - Subscription lending library in London dedicated to Marxism and labour movements. Overview of collections, lecture programme and membership rates.
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) - The national (UK) development agency working for and on behalf of museums, libraries and archives and advising government on policy and priorities for the sector.
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National Art Library - Research and reference library based at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Meta Description: [ National Art Library ]
National Library of Scotland - A complete list of Library catalogues and indexes, current exhibitions and a digital library.
Meta Description: [ Welcome to the National Library of Scotland. Scotland's largest library and world centre for the study of Scotland and the Scots ]
National Marine Biological Library - Based in Plymouth, south-west England, the NMBL contains one of the world's major collections of literature on aquatic sciences and fisheries, and acts as a marine biological sciences resource for the UK.
Meta Description: [ National Marine Biological Library ]
People's Network - Government site detailing the progress of the government's project to connect all public libraries to the Internet
Meta Description: [ People's Network homepage. ]
Poetry Library Online - World's largest public library devoted exclusively to modern poetry. Site includes a 'Lost Quotation Noticeboard' for when you can't remember what comes next.
Meta Description: [ The Poetry Library is the most comprehensive and accessible collection of poetry in Britain ]
Public Lending Right UK - Provides information on the PLR Scheme. It provides advice on eligibility, registration and payment from government for the free lending of their books by libraries.
Meta Description: [ The Public Lending Right UK Website provides information relating to the Public Lending Right (PLR) Scheme. It provides authors with advice on issues such as eligibility, registration and payment from government for the free lending of their books by libraries. ]
Science Museum Library - Science Museum Library is a research library, open to the general public for reference. Our collections form a record of scientific, technological and medical change since the eighteenth century
Meta Description: [ The Science Museum's web site offers information on the history of science, industry and medicine and how their impact on our lives. Online exhibitions, view the collections, special events and information for visitors. Science Museum Library ]
The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne - History and photographs of this subscription library offering books, magazines and CDs. Programme of free events and children's page.
Meta Description: [ Subscription library open to all founded in 1793. Academic and popular books, music CDs and opera videos for loan, concerts, lectures and poetry readings. ]
The London Library - Scholarly subscription library in central London collecting principally in the humanities. History, collections, membership information and online catalogue.
Meta Description: [ The London Library is an independent subscription library, based in Piccadilly in the centre of London. The Library contains over a million volumes in all major European languages and has a subject range across the humanities with a particular emphasis on history, literature and related subjects... ]
The Portico Library and Gallery - A subscription library in Manchester featuring 19th century literature, local school exhibits, artist submissions, and gallery.
The UK Public Libraries Page - An exhaustive list of libraries, compiled by Sheila and Robert Harden with sites that make 'an effort to use the medium imaginatively' marked.
Meta Description: [ uk public libraries ]
The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine - Research library in London, open to the public free of charge. Catalogues of books, archives and images.
Working Class Movement Library - A collection of materials concerned with the activities, expression and enquiries of the labor movement, its allies and its enemies, since the late eighteenth century.
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