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   library

   /ˈlʌɪb(rə)ri/

   noun

   • 1. a building or room containing collections of books, periodicals, and sometimes films and recorded music for use or borrowing by the public or the members of an institution: "a university library"
   • ▪ a collection of books and periodicals held in a library: "the Institute houses an outstanding library of 35,000 volumes on the fine arts"
   • ▪ a room in a private house where books are kept: "there was a library that Uncle Hilbert used as his study"
   • ▪ a series of books or recordings issued by a company as a set.
   • ▪ a collection of films, recorded music, etc., organized systematically and kept for research or borrowing: "a record library"
   • ▪ a collection of programs and software packages made generally available, often loaded and stored on disk for immediate use: "download any of thousands of programs from our software libraries"

   Word Origin late Middle English: via Old French from Latin libraria ‘bookshop’, feminine (used as a noun) of librarius ‘relating to books’, from liber, libr- ‘book’.

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   1 day ago · In the 19th and 20th century, libraries and library professionals systematized book collecting and classification systems to respond to the growing literacy and print industries around the world. The most widely used system is ISBN , which has provided unique identifiers for books since 1970.

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