During the few years after its foundation the British Museum received several further gifts, including the Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts and David Garrick's library of 1, 000 printed plays, but yet contained few ancient relics recognisable to visitors of the modern museum.

In Aleppo, for example, the largest and probably the oldest mosque library, the Sufiya, located at the city's Grand Umayyad Mosque, contained a large book collection of which 10, 000 volumes were reportedly bequeathed by the city's most famous ruler, Prince Sayf al-Dawla.

This site corresponds to an unusual labyrinth symbol on a 16th century map of Crete contained in a book of maps in the library of Christ Church, Oxford.

Most of the microfilm library would have been contained within the desk, but the user could add or remove microfilm reels at will.

In reply, it was proved that the Advocates ' library at Edinburgh contained Gaelic manuscripts 500 years old, and one of even greater antiquity.

* 1988 – Roland U-110: Roland's first " rompler ", the U-110 was a rack module based on Roland's large sample library and contained good representations of acoustic instruments.

When large parts of Uppsala burned down in 1702, Gustavianum, which contained the university library and its many valuable manuscripts, escaped the fire ; local lore has it that the aging Rudbeck stood on the roof directing the work of fighting the fire.

The library contained fourteen hundred volumes.

The chief value of the Visigothic code consists in the fact that it is the only collection of Roman Law in which the five first books of the Theodosian code and five books of the Sententiae Receptae of Julius Paulus have been preserved, and until the discovery of a manuscript in the chapter library in Verona, which contained the greater part of the Institutes of Gaius, it was the only work in which any portion of the institutional writings of that great jurist had come down to us.

The former monastic library of Worcester contained a considerable number of manuscripts which are, among other libraries, now scattered over Cambridge, London ( British Library ), Oxford Bodleian, and the Cathedral library at Worcester of today.

By consulting the Pinakes, a library patron could find out if the library contained a work by a particular author, how it was categorized, and where it might be found.

In 1787 the designer of Carlton House, Henry Holland, was employed to enlarge the existing building, which became one wing of the Marine Pavilion, flanking a central rotunda, which contained only three main rooms, a breakfast room, dining room and library, fitted out in Holland's French-influenced neoclassical style, with decorative paintings by Biagio Rebecca.

The London house contained the bulk of his library, while he kept most of his instruments at Clapham Common, where he carried out most of his experiments.

The school library contained more books than any school in this part of the country.

In some OOP languages, like Java, the distinction is clear, with the classes often contained in library files ( like Java's JAR file format ) and the instantiated objects residing only in memory ( although potentially able to be made persistent in separate files ).

By the 11th century it contained the second largest library in Europe and was considered one of the leading European seats of learning.

He owned books by influential Italian Renaissance architects such as Sebastiano Serlio and Leon Battista Alberti and his library contained books by French architects, sculptors, illustrators and architectural theorists such as Jean Cotelle, Philibert de l ' Orme, Abraham Bosse, Jean Bullant, Salomon de Caus, Roland Fréart de Chambray, Hugues Sambin, Antoine Desgodetz, and John James's translation of Claude Perrault's Treatise of the Five Orders.

It came with twelve sample programs, with another 294 contained in an additional four-volume library which could be bought for £ 4. 95.

The library at Blickling Hall contained and still contains one of the most historically significant collections of manuscripts and books in England.

His library, which contained a very extensive collection of Greek manuscripts, was presented by him in 1468 to the senate of Venice, and forms the nucleus of the famous library of St Mark's, the Biblioteca Marciana.

# Fragmenta Peiresciana: Consists of large extracts, found in the section entitled, " Of Virtues and Vices ", contained in the collection, or portative library, compiled by order of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus.

He skimmed over the millions that went to Meeker Park, Medfield Hospital, the civic center, the Public Health Nursing Association, the library, and so on, pausing when he came to the scholarship fund.

The mantel was found in a recently demolished Salem house and is being fitted over the White House library fireplace.

And over 66 per cent of the elementary schools with 150 or more pupils do not have any library at all.

Another innovator in this field is the German harpist Rudiger Oppermann, who has also brought together harpists from all over the world to German music festivals and owns a private library of folk-music harps from every continent.

Writing in Bengali, he created a library of over 2, 000 songs now known by Bengalis as ' rabindra sangeet ' whose form is primarily influenced by Hindustani classical, sub-classicals, Karnatic, western, bauls, bhatiyali and different folk songs of India.

Several million dollars value of HOURS have been traded since 1991 among thousands of residents and over 500 area businesses, including the Cayuga Medical Center, Alternatives Federal Credit Union, the public library, many local farmers, movie theatres, restaurants, healers, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, and landlords.

The two men became personally acquainted, and it was in Savigny's well-stocked library that Grimm first turned over the leaves of Bodmer's edition of the Old German minnesingers and other early texts, and felt an eager desire to penetrate further into the obscurities and half-revealed mysteries of their language.

Kent State offers over 300 degree programs, among them 250 baccalaureate, 40 associate's, 50 master's, and 23 doctoral programs of study, which include such notable programs as nursing, liquid crystals, business, history, library science, aeronautics, journalism and fashion design.

Once ascertained, canonical copies would then be made for scholars, royalty and wealthy bibliophiles the world over, this commerce bringing income to the library.

Mark Antony supposedly gave Cleopatra over 200, 000 scrolls ( taken from the great Library of Pergamum ) for the library as a wedding gift, but this is regarded by some historians as a propagandist claim meant to show Antony's allegiance to Egypt rather than Rome.

Parliament appointed a committee, led by William Ewart, on Public Libraries to consider the necessity of establishing libraries through the nation: In 1849 their report noted the poor condition of library service, it recommended the establishment of free public libraries all over the country, and it led to the Public Libraries Act in 1850, which allowed all cities with populations exceeding 10, 000 to levy taxes for the support of public libraries.

Another example of the shift to digital libraries can be seen in Cushing Academy ’ s decision to dispense with its library of printed books — more than 20, 000 volumes in all — and switch over entirely to digital media resources.

With the development of the Web, digital reference services are beginning to take over some of the roles of the traditional reference desk in a library.

There are many standard systems of library classification in use, and many more have been proposed over the years.

The library houses over 1. 8 million items and uses the Library of Congress Classification System.

The pcurses library was further improved when Zeyd Ben-Halim took over the development effort in late 1991.

The library was seized by the lords of Padua, and his books and manuscripts are now widely scattered over Europe.

The library and archives at Kew are one of the world's largest botanical collections, with over half a million items, including books, botanical illustrations, photographs, letters and manuscripts, periodicals, and maps.

So she pored over every book on mathematics in her father's library, even teaching herself Latin and Greek so she could read works like those of Sir Isaac Newton and Leonhard Euler.

Through windows enriched with the insignia of heraldry the sun shone on suits of armour, trophies of the chase, a library of over 9, 000 volumes, fine furniture, and still finer pictures.

More practical applications of social epistemology can be found in the areas of library science, academic publishing, knowledge policy and debates over the role over the Internet in knowledge transmission and creation.

The SFU Burnaby Campus has a single library called the W. A. C. Bennett Library which holds over 2 million published books, and 6000 print subscriptions.

In 1928, the warlord Shi Yousan set fire to the monastery, burning it for over 40 days, destroying a significant percent of the buildings, including many manuscripts of the temple library.