Bodley ’ s collecting interests were varied ; according to the library's historian Ian Philip, as early as June 1603 he was attempting to source manuscripts from Turkey, and it was during “ the same year that the first Chinese book was acquired .” In 1610, Bodley made an agreement with the Stationers ' Company in London to put a copy of every book registered with them in the library.

The library also includes six rare editions of the Divina Commedia ; the first of these, the Brescia edition of 1487, is the library's earliest book.

This was the library's first major renovation since its construction in 1937.

The Newberry's first librarian, William Frederick Poole, was a primary force behind the library's noncirculating research and rare book collections, as well as conceptualizing the facility to house them.

That library, at, with an extension built in 1946, eventually became too small and cramped for a city population that, by the time the library was replaced, had roughly doubled since the library's first opening.

On October 24, 1873, William Frederick Poole was elected the first head librarian by the library's Board of Directors.

It is named for Henry Suzzallo, who was president of the University of Washington until he stepped down in 1926, the same year the first phase of the library's construction was completed.

Kennedy has been called " one of the pioneer folklore collectors during the first half of the 20th century ", and his work is a keystone of the library's presentation.

According to James Moske, an archivist with the New York Public Library who arranged and cataloged the library's Clarence Day Papers, a survey of Day ’ s early short stories and magazine columns reveals " he was fascinated by the changing roles of men and women in American society as Victorian conceptions of marriage, family, and domestic order unraveled in the first decades of the twentieth century.

She was appointed to be the library's first Assistant Librarian in 1896.

The scope of the collection was shaped in its early years as a private collection by Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian, who would become the library's first director and served from the time it became public until her retirement in 1948.

Librarian William Howard Brett opened the library's first stand-alone children's room on February 22, 1898.

The library's distinguished History of Science Collection contains more than 10, 000 volumes, including first editions of many landmarks of science and technology.

The library's first book was the Polyglot Bible, printed by Christoffel Plantijn, a gift of William of Orange to the library in 1575.

According to the library's timeline, the first Fairfax County Library opened in 1939.

Eventually this organization became known as the Philadelphia Bar Association, and in 1931 the library's name was changed ( the first of several name changes ) to the Law Library of the Philadelphia Bar Association.

The Bebelplatz building housed the library until 1914, when the headquarters moved into new, even larger premises on the Unter den Linden: the climax of the library's development before the first world war.

Boyle also extended the opening hours of the library and employed women for the first time as part of the library's staff.

In an Update to Parents dated September 10, 2009, the headmaster states that the library's printed books will be replaced over a two-year period, that faculty had first claim on those removed from the library, and that " books, in all formats, will continue to abound at Cushing.

The library's first computer lab opened in 1986, offering access to 8 Apple computers.

Circulation figures for the district are currently over 468, 000 + per year and the library's collection exceeds 100, 000 pieces.

In the library's 2010 fiscal year ( through June 2010 ), nearly 14 million items were borrowed from its collection of nearly three million books, CDs, DVDs, magazines, and other items.

The secularization of Bavaria and the transfer of the court library of the Electorate of the Palatinate around the year 1803 added approximately 550, 000 volumes and 18, 600 manuscripts to the library's holdings.

Library 2. 0, a term coined in 2005, is the library's response to the challenge of Google and an attempt to meet the changing needs of users by using web 2. 0 technology.

* In the Moral Orel television programme, Moralton's town library is named the Thomas Bowdler Library ; most of the library's books are censored ( Episode 2, " God's Greatest Gift ")

Hearing of the College's urgent need for greater library space, Williams donated £ 1, 200 anonymously, later revealing his identity and donating a total of £ 2, 011 towards the library's total cost of £ 3, 000.

The library's collection consists of 100, 000 books and periodicals, 2, 500 CDs, records, cassettes and other audio materials, in addition to 2, 500 video items.

The building Homer encounters inside the third dimension is a recreation of the library from the PC game Myst accompanied with the library's theme music briefly playing in the background, Willie changing shapes while sinking in the sand box is similar to the T-1000's " death " in Terminator 2: Judgement Day and Martin's dream references The Pagemaster.

The library's collection numbers over 2 million items.

Authors may post the documents on their own websites, but they are required to link back to the digital library's reference page for the paper.

The library's Fundamentalism File collects periodical articles and ephemera about social and religious matters of interest to evangelicals and fundamentalists.

in Paris, which enforces the library's copyrights and decides how and when this material can be released.

Printed on the Bancroft library's 1856 Albion handpress.

The library's biblical and theological contents were more impressive: Origen's Hexapla and Tetrapla, a copy of the original Hebrew Version of the Gospel of MattitYahu, and many of Origen's own writings.

Soon after joining Pamphilus ' school, Eusebius started helping his master expand the library's collections and broaden access to its resources.

By the mid-70s, Pei tried proposing a new design, but the library's opponents resisted every effort.

In 1971, when physical science materials were transferred to the new Sciences Library, the John Hay Library became exclusively a repository for the library's Special Collections.

( The Library of Alexandria in fact had an indirect cause in the creation of writing parchment — due to the library's critical need for papyrus, little was exported and thus an alternate source of copy material became essential.

A possibly apocryphal or exaggerated story concerns how the library's collection grew so large.

A library's collection can include books, periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts, films, maps, prints, documents, microform, CDs, cassettes, videotapes, DVDs, e-books, audiobooks and other formats.

As the number of books in libraries increased, so did the need for compact storage and access with adequate lighting, giving birth to the stack system, which involved keeping a library's collection of books in a space separate from the reading room.

Patrons may not know how to fully use the library's resources.

Ways in which a library's content is displayed or accessed may have the most impact on use.

An antiquated or clumsy search system, or staff unwilling or untrained to engage their patrons, will limit a library's usefulness.

The emergence of the Internet, however, has led to the adoption of electronic catalogue databases ( often referred to as " webcats " or as online public access catalogues, OPACs ), which allow users to search the library's holdings from any location with Internet access.

The ultimate help provided may consist of reading material in the form of a book or journal article, instruction in the use of specific searchable information resources such as the library's online catalog or subscription bibliographic / fulltext databases, or simply factual information drawn from the library's print or online reference collection.

The library's full reference collection is usually nearby as well.

In the context of library science, a manuscript is defined as any hand-written item in the collections of a library or an archive ; for example, a library's collection of the letters or a diary that some historical personage wrote.

Every library module has at least two source files: a definitions file specifying the library's interface plus one or more program files specifying the implementation of the procedures in the interface.

For example, in Java, a string literal is defined as an instance of the < tt > java. lang. String </ tt > class ; similarly, in Smalltalk, an anonymous function expression ( a " block ") constructs an instance of the library's < tt > BlockContext </ tt > class.