In 1918, because of the threat of wartime bombing, some objects were evacuated to a Postal Tube Railway at Holborn, the National Library of Wales ( Aberystwyth ) and a country house near Malvern.

However, in August 1939, due to the imminence of war and the likelihood of air-raids the Parthenon Sculptures along with Museum's most valued collections were dispersed to secure basements, country houses, Aldwych tube station, the National Library of Wales and a quarry.

The earliest written copy survives and is part of the collections of the National Library of Wales.

National Library of Wales

Edwards in Matins, Lauds and Vespers for St David ’ s Day: the Medieval Office of the Welsh Patron Saint in National Library of Wales MS 20541 E ( Cambridge, 1990 )

In 1895, at the age of 85, Gladstone bequeathed £ 40, 000 ( equivalent to approximately £ today ) and much of his library to found St Deiniol's Library in Hawarden, Wales, the only residential library in Britain.

In early April 2009, a second list was discovered at the State Library of New South Wales, Australia by workers combing through boxes of materials collected by author Thomas Keneally.

* State Library of New South Wales.

* Papers of Sir Joseph Banks — State Library of New South Wales

The Abel Tasman map 1644, also known as the Bonaparte Tasman map that is part of the collection of the State Library of New South Wales, Australia.

* Saunders Lewis and the " Tynged yr iaith " (= The fate of the Welsh language ) lecture from the National Library of Wales website

Due to translations into English, the first being done by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart., and other translations such as in Everyman's Library and Penguin Classics Gerald's works on Wales are well known today.

* Giraldus Cambrensis, The Itinerary and Description of Wales, Everyman's Library, Edited by Ernest Rhys, with an Introduction by W. Llewelyn Williams, January 1908

* the State Library of New South Wales Zine Collection, Sydney, New South Wales

* the Octapod Association Zine Library, Newcastle, New South Wales

The largest library in Sydney is the State Library of New South Wales, which hold over 4. 7 million items, including 2 million books.

* Maelgwn Gwynedd on National Library of Wales Dictionary of Welsh Biography

" Llyfr Taliesin ," National Library of Wales Journal 25: 357 – 86.

* The Book of Taliesin at the National Library of Wales.

By then the Bodleian, Cambridge University Library and the Royal Library were the most extensive book collections in England and Wales.

Of her research for Falls the Shadow, Penman explains: " I did a great deal of on-site research, visiting the castles and battlefields that figured in Falls the Shadow, visiting the Reading Room at the British Library, the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, and local reference libraries .... Here at home, I made use of the University of Pennsylvania Library in Philadelphia, which has an excellent medieval selection.

* Peace Palace Library – Research Guide

* Anatomia 1522 – 1867: Anatomical Plates from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

* Herubel, Jean-Pierre V. M. " Historiography's Horizon and Imperative: Febvrian Annales Legacy and Library History as Cultural History ," Libraries & Culture, Volume 39, Number 3, Summer 2004, pp. 293 – 312 in Project Muse

* 1986 – A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400, 000 books and other items.

* U. S. National Library of Medicine: Drug Information Portal – Aspirin

* Students often use the poor English translation of J. C. Rolfe in the Loeb Classical Library, 1935 – 1940 with many reprintings.

The shift in Aalto's design approach from classicism to modernism is epitomised by the Viipuri Library ( 1927 – 35 ), which went through a transformation from an originally classical competition entry proposal to the completed high-modernist building.

Due to problems over financing and a change of site, the Viipuri Library project lasted eight years, and during that same time he also designed the Turun Sanomat Building ( 1929 – 30 ) and Paimio Sanatorium ( 1929 – 33 ).

Acts 15: 22 – 24 from the 7th-century Codex Laudianus in the Bodleian Library, written in parallel columns of Latin and Greek language | Greek.

* 1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $ 5, 000 USD to purchase " such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress ".

* Marschall, Rick, Nemo, the Classic Comics Library # 18, pp. 3 – 32 ( April 1986 )

* Library of Congress: Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889 – 1939

The construction commenced around the courtyard with the East Wing ( The King's Library ) in 1823 – 1828, followed by the North Wing in 1833 – 1838, which originally housed among other galleries a reading room, now the Wellcome Gallery.

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

Library Journal 35, 351 – 358.

* lds. org – Official church website – with links to Gospel Library, Church History, Family Home Evening programs, family history research, and more.

* Harper's Weekly 150 cartoons on elections 1860-1912 ; Reconstruction topics ; Chinese exclusion ; plus American Political Prints from the Library of Congress, 1766 – 1876

* Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820 – 1890, digitized source materials from Mystic Seaport, via Library of Congress American Memory

Charles Ammi Cutter ( 1837 – 1903 ), inspired by the decimal classification of his contemporary Melvil Dewey, and with Dewey's initial encouragement, developed his own classification scheme for the Winchester Town Library and then the Boston Athenaeum, at which he served as librarian for twenty-four years.

* CNY Heritage Digital Library, featuring images of Civilian Conservation Corps members constructing Green Lakes State Park in Central New York ( 1929 – 1948 ).

* 1851 – Library of Congress burns.

The Chester Beatty Library houses the famous collection of manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and decorative arts assembled by American mining millionaire ( and honorary Irish citizen ) Sir Alfred Chester Beatty ( 1875 – 1968 ).