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Built in the Brucheion ( Royal Quarter ) in the style of Aristotle's Lyceum, adjacent to and in service of the Musaeum ( a Greek Temple or " House of Muses ", hence the term " museum "), the library comprised a Peripatos walk, gardens, a room for shared dining, a reading room, lecture halls and meeting rooms.

However, the exact layout is not known.

The influence of this model may still be seen today in the layout of university campuses.

The library itself is known to have had an acquisitions department ( possibly built near the stacks, or for utility closer to the harbour ), and a cataloguing department.

A hall contained shelves for the collections of scrolls ( as the books were at this time on papyrus scrolls ), known as bibliothekai ( βιβλιοθῆκαι ).

Legend has it that carved into the wall above the shelves was an inscription that read: The place of the cure of the soul.