libraries

     

A library is a collection of information, sources, resources, an services: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. In the more traditional sense, a library is a collection of books.

Trivia about libraries

  • In 1958 the theme of the first national week for these places was "Wake up & read!"
  • Henry Huntington is famous for endowing one of these at San Marino, Calif.; Andrew Carnegie endowed 2,500
  • By the 4th century A.D., Rome had 28 public ones stacked with rolls of papyrus