library

     

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 library

  • Ted Hughes wrote that it's where a child can sit "with the genius of the Earth"
  • Reading room(7)
  • The journal of this quiet type of institution gives an award for the one "of the Year"; in 2010 it was in Columbus
  • A mysterious Gray Lady is said to frequent the children's reading room of this public building in Willard Indiana
  • In 1930 former Standard Oil president Henry Folger founded one of these in Washington, D.C.
  • Referring to public access, it's where you'll find the open & closed stacks on a college campus
  • The Salem Athenaeum is one of these & a membership that includes borrowing rights is $45 a year
  • One of these famously burned in Alexandria in 47 B.C. & also in Los Angeles in 1986
  • The word for this public place comes from the Roman word for tree bark, which was used as writing material
  • ...LOC, as in www.loc.gov