In 1757 King George II gave the Old Royal Library and with it the right to a copy of every book published in the country, thereby ensuring that the Museum's library would expand indefinitely.

The three main manuscript sources for Irish mythology are the late 11th / early 12th century Lebor na hUidre which is in the library of the Royal Irish Academy, the early 12th century Book of Leinster in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, and the Rawlinson manuscript B 502 ( Rawl.

The Royal Library of Alexandria, or Ancient Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt, was the largest and most significant library of the ancient world.

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.

Queen Christina was generous to the university, gave scholarships to Swedish students to study abroad and recruited foreign scholars to Uppsala chairs, among them several from the University of Strassburg, notably the philologist Johannes Schefferus ( professor skytteanus ), whose little library and museum building at S: t Eriks torg now belongs to the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala.

Among many of his remarkable designs at this time, the monument ( 1671 – 76 ) commemorating the Great Fire also involved Robert Hooke, but Wren was in control of the final design, the Royal Observatory ( 1675 – 76 ), and the library at Trinity College, Cambridge ( 1676 – 84 ) were the most important ones.

As well as the church, there is a pier, an athletics track, a small supermarket, Royal Mail post office, snackbar, hotel, police station, hospital, dental surgery and a library.

The senior Rivers, also called William, was the master gunner aboard The Victory and it is thanks to his commonplace book ( now kept in the Royal Naval Museum library in Portsmouth ) that many of the thoughts of the sailors aboard Nelson's flagship are preserved.

Renting a room in Bloomsbury, an area of central London, he initially found it hard to gain work, but spent much time studying at the nearby British Museum and the library of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

In The New World ( 2005 ), the library edifice is portrayed as the entrance to the Royal Court of the English monarchy.

Bloomsbury is home to Senate House and the main library of the University of London, The Bloomsbury Colleges ( Birkbeck, University of London, Institute of Education, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, School of Pharmacy, School of Oriental and African Studies and the Royal Veterinary College ) and University College London ( with the Slade School of Fine Art ), the College of Law, London Contemporary Dance School, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and Goodenough College.

Illuminated manuscripts in the library dating from the 12th to 16th centuries include: the Eadwine Psalter, Canterbury ; Pocket Book of Hours, Reims ; Missal from the Royal Abbey of Saint Denis, Paris ; the Simon Marmion Book of Hours, Bruges ; 1524 Charter illuminated by Lucas Horenbout, London ; the Armagnac manuscript of the trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, Rouen.

Today the Library is devoid of books, the collections having been removed to Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, or in the Royal Institute of British Architects library, which itself is now located in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The library of the Central School of Brussels had about 80, 000 volumes, which then became part of the library of Brussels, and then the future Royal Library of Belgium where they are still found.

With its more than 4 million volumes and precious manuscripts, the library is designed for Göttingen University as well as the central library for the German State of Lower Saxony ( with its central catalogue ) and for the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, originally founded as the ' Royal Society for Sciences '.

Salford Museum and Art Gallery first opened in November 1850 as " The Royal Museum & Public Library ", as the first unconditionally free public library in England.

The king John VI of Portugal brought with him to Brazil the great musical library from the House of Bragança, one of the best of Europe at that time, and ordered the arrival of musicians from Lisbon and the castrati from Italy, re-ordering the Royal Chapel.

In 1844, following the death of Jakob Adlerbeth and the dissolution of the Society, part of the library accumulated by the Götiska förbundet, together with its archive, was given to the library of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities ( Vitterhetsakademiens bibliotek ); there the materials are maintained among the special collections.

In 1785 the library was ceded by his descendant and representative the marquis of Malpica to Charles III of Spain, and it is now in the Royal Library at Madrid.

When the Royal Library proved insufficient, a new library was founded in 1831, first located in several temporary sites.

Founded in 1896, it has been the national social science library of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth and all its collections have been recognised for their outstanding national and international importance and awarded ' Designation ' status by the Museums Libraries and Archives Council ( MLA ).

Old Economy's buildings, grounds, library, archives and 16, 000 original artifacts are fused to create an interpretive facility for the Commonwealth.

A bedroom during the American period, it was turned into a library and reception room during the Commonwealth ; after the War, it eventually became the Music Room.

The library also has a large collection of international, foreign, and comparative law, with the main focus being on the Commonwealth of Nations and Europe.

In 1754, the Roman Catholic bishop founded Przemyśl's first public library, which was only the second public library in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( Warsaw's Załuski Library was founded 7 years earlier ).

The law school is home to the Law Reform Commission of Ontario, the Osgoode Hall Law Journal, the German Law Journal, and the largest law library in the Commonwealth.

The library houses books and resources relating to courses and research in the University's Faculty of Education and School of Computing Science, and also houses the Commonwealth Education Documentation Centre.

There is a Safeway supermarket, three hairdressing salons, a travel agency, a building design ( drafting ) service, a pharmacy, a butcher, a dry cleaner, three bakeries, a newsagency, a cinema, a few fast food outlets, restaurants, a Centrelink office, a pub and a few bars / lounges, two banks ( the Commonwealth Bank and the Bendigo Bank ), two tattoo studios, as well as a public library.

The Van Beuren library was sold to various television, reissue, and home-movie distributors in the 1940s and 1950s, including Commonwealth Pictures and Official Films.

Merrill returns to the school once a year to give a speech on a topic of his choice, and his books are on display in the school library alongside those of Commonwealth alumni.

In addition to the exhibition, the Institute ran an important library of Commonwealth literature and hosted cultural events.

The Library of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia, is the library agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia, its archival agency, and the reference library at the seat of government.

During the nineteenth century, Secretaries of the Commonwealth usually oversaw the state library as part of their official duties.

Pergamon Press, Oxford, New York 1966 (= The Commonwealth and International library.

Lagrein was pioneered in Australia by Peter May of Melbourne University ’ s Burnley Campus who discovered a couple of vines in the " vine library " of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation at Merbein in northeast Victoria, and in part influenced by research by Richard Smart and Peter Dry, planted the variety in his garden-sized vineyard at Kyneton in 1988.

The cornerstone of the public library came from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the form of Załuski's Library ( 420, 000 volumes ), stolen by the Russians at the time of the partitions.

The damaged papers are now in the John Rylands Library having been deposited in the university library by the Society.

* The Reading Society of Corfu has an extensive library of old Corfu manuscripts and rare books.

Founded in 1863, the Brooklyn Historical Society ( BHS ) is a museum, library, and educational center dedicated to preserving and encouraging the study of Brooklyn's history.

In 1879, on July 4 and 6, the palace of the ( then ) Governor General, the principal administrative and municipal offices and many of the other public buildings were destroyed by fire, and the government archives, the library and the museum of the Siberian section of the Russian Geographical Society were completely ruined.

The local societies are now more likely to provide their members with a well-stocked law library, continuing professional development courses ( all solicitors in Scotland are required to complete 20 hours of continuing professional development each year ), and lobby on behalf of their members with The Law Society of Scotland and The Scottish Government regarding future legal developments.

* Charles Bradlaugh ( 1833-1891 ); founder and first president of the National Secular Society lived at 20, circus road, house since demolished, now St Johns Wood library

Another library located in Hartford City belongs to the Blackford County Historical Society, and a museum is housed in the same building.

In 1812, Thomas founded the American Antiquarian Society, a research library holding nearly two-thirds of the items known to have been printed in America from 1639 through 1820.

In 1969, Shenton persuaded Ellis Hillman, a Polytechnic lecturer, to become president of the Flat Earth Society, but there is little evidence of any activity on his part until after Shenton's death, when he added most of Shenton's library to the archives of the Science Fiction Foundation which he helped to establish.

Shenton died in 1971 and Charles K. Johnson, inheriting part of Shenton's library from Shenton's wife, established and became the president of the International Flat Earth Research Society of America and Covenant People's Church in California.

* Archival documents: The Papers of the Flat Earth Society at the University of Liverpool library

These include nine parks, the Pimeria Alta Historical Society Museum, an art gallery, Oasis Movie Theater, four recreation centers, four swimming pools, eight athletic fields, a library, six tennis courts and three golf courses.

The town has a small museum and library housed in the Blackford County Historical Society building.

The Freetown Historical Society Museum in Assonet is a trove of artifacts and information relating to the history of the town and surrounding area, and has an extensive genealogical library.

Warren has a public library, the Godel Memorial Library, and is home to the Marshall County Historical Society, the Marshall County Fair, and the Warren Riverside Country Club ( 9-hole, par 4, grass greens ).

Today, it houses the Moniteau County Historical Society, museum, information center, gift shop and genealogy library.

Three churches, all still standing ( one is the Tuxedo Historical Society today ), a train station, a library, and a post office were also built, as well as a school and a hospital.

* Clark County Heritage Center, which houses the Clark County Historical Society museum, library, and archives.

The building was rescued from demolition in 1978 by the Braddock's Field Historical Society and is still in use as a public library.

A large new library was built at Society Street and McDuffie Street and the previous library was remodeled and turned into the county museum.

In 2008, the University of Bradford's LGBT Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Society, Bradford MSGI, named its LGBT library collection the Robbie Ross Liberation Library.

Instead, we are concerned with those areas generally understood as being within the scope of library and information science ( LIS ) and the interests of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

There is a post office, a small library, a filling station and branches of Natwest and the Leeds Building Society.