Public Library

A place containing an organized collection of written, artistic, or other kinds of materials. The real beauty of libraries are that they are utterly convivial. You don't need to be anyone special, nor must you pay money to use the library. I was amazed when I went to the Library of Congress that no one checked my ID.

The earliest known library was a collection of clay tablets in Babylonia in the 21st cent. B.C., first public library in Greece was established in order to preserve accurate examples of the works of the great dramatists. This was recently destroyed in the Iraq War of 2003.

The Boston Public Library opened in 1653 and was followed by the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1731, a circulating library. First U.S. tax-supported library opened in Peterborough, NH, 1833.

Some Libraries:

• New York Public Library
• Library of Congress
• British Museum Library
• Astor Free Library
• Library of Alexandria (Bibliotheca Alexandrina)
• Library of Babel
• Queens Borough Public Library
• the National Library of Poetry
• Bower-Suhrheinrich Library
• Cleveland Public Library
• Baen Free Library
• national library
• Multnomah County Central Library
• Adriance Memorial Library
• The Vatican Library
• Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum
• Cabot Science Library
• Widener Library
• New York Public Library - St. Agnes Branch
• Presidential Library
• The Huntington Library
• Regenstein Library
• Vancouver Public Library

Related Links:

• Libraries and technology
• Library public services
• Historical Evidence Regarding the Libraries of Muslim Spain
• Burning of the Libraries of Alexandria
• Chicago Public Library Quotes
• Dewey Decimal System
• Library of Congress Classification System
• Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index
• Types of Reference Questions
• American Library Association
• Curse Against Book Stealers
• U*N*A*B*A*S*H*E*D Librarian
• How to help a library
• Library and Information Science
• library software
• International Institute of Bibliography
• Types of Reference Questions
• Working in a library is never as much fun as you think it might be.
• information junkie
• Library Bill of Rights
• Library school
• I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library
• Working in the Library
• library catalog
• Family Friendly Libraries
• The Library Picture File
• librarian
• Young Librarians On The Go
• Medieval Manuscript Production
• Aristotle's Lost Library, Medieval Andalusia & Chinese Paper, or How Europe Learned to Learn Again and Why the Renaissance Happened When & Where It Did
• Chronology of Library Development in Antiquity

Source:
http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9909/tooltip.html
http://www.nlr.ru:8100/eng/nlr/obik.html
Last Updated 09.08.04