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

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.

The library's collections were rebuilt with donations from all around the world, outraged by the barbaric act which it had suffered.

The library's collections were again restored after the war, and by the fission in 1968 had approximately four million books.

The library's collections swelled to over 300, 000 volumes during the radical phase of the French Revolution when the private libraries of aristocrats and clergy were seized.

The Maryland Room, located on the second floor of the Annex, contains many of the library's prize collections.

* The Bonatzbau, the library's oldest building, was built in 1912 and currently houses the historical reading room ( Historischer Lesesaal ), the university archive, along with a number of manuscript collections.

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.

During this time, the Newberry acquired many important collections, a stacks building was constructed, and the library's emphasis moved from the old world to the new, especially as to Native American and early North American settlers.

Over 10, 000 electronic journals and newspapers augmenting these print collections are accessible through the library's on the wireless network or on computers in the library's information commons.

Two large underground stacks, which were built into the bedrock below the building, now contain the bulk of the library's collections, while library patrons, other visitors, and employees share the space in the main building.

The main foundation of the library's collections acquired in 1892 was the Althorp Library of Lord Spencer regarded as one of the finest library collections in private ownership with 43, 000 items-4, 000 of which originate from before 1501.

General access is permitted for the library's book and journal collections, the electronic databases and the electronic books and journal articles that are available to Lab.

The library's strongest collections are in Theology, Religion, American literature, British literature, and Philosophy.

The library's collections, which range from the 16th century to the present day, are strong within the fields of literature, fiction, fine and applied art, architecture, history, biography, philosophy, religion, topography, and travel.

Most of those documents, along with all of the central branch of Montreal public library's collections, following an agreement between those institutions, have been relocated in the new Grande Bibliothèque, which was officially opened April 20, 2005 and opened to the general public the following Saturday, April 30, 2005.

The library's collections include more than 100 thousand books, 500 microfilms, CDs, tapes and impressive holdings of rare books, prints and archives.

Currently, the library's collections are dispersed in the subject libraries.

The library's specimen collections include more than 13, 000 eggshells and nearly 300 avian study skins for use by researchers.

The special collections and archives of Leiden University ( see below ) are increasingly made available through the library's Catalogue and Digital Special Collections environment.

The building features large 40m high ' public realms-in-the sky ' in the form of two verdantly landscaped ' skycourt gardens ', and at the ground plane an open-to-the-sky public plaza ( for cultural and festival activities ) that bioclimatically serves as an evaporative cooling device to the public realm, upper-level multiple sky-bridges that link the building's two blocks ( one regular-shaped block containing the library's collections and a ' banana-shaped ' block for the library's programming activities ) both placed within a naturally-ventilated atrium covered by a louvered canopy roof over the entire built form serving as its ' fifth facade ', two multi-volume reading rooms at the sides of the collections block, an uppermost promontory viewing pod.

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.

The library's projects include the development of tools to improve access to electronic resources.

The developers ' goal is to include library's functionality in the Mono project, while also providing stand-alone functionality.

These include CD-ROMs and web-based resources and are accessible from the library's homepages.

The library's Special Collections include the papers of Marriner Stoddard Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1934 to 1938 ; David O. McKay, ninth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ; Leonidas Ralph Mecham, Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts from 1985 to 2006 ; and Wallace Stegner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972.

The library's collections include more than 45, 000 items, including books, maps, videos, and CDs, and 80 periodicals in print format, with access to several thousand more.

The library's specialist areas include items relating to the history of New Zealand and the Pacific, with specific emphasis on the Otago and Southland Regions.

The library's medieval collection was destroyed during the reformation.

The library's director from 1995 through June 2011 was Charles B. Faulhaber, professor of medieval Spanish literature at Berkeley.

A rare facsimile of the Book of Kells is on public display in the library's Irish Room, and each day one page of the illuminated manuscript is turned.

The library of the royal physician to Queen Charlotte, William Hunter, received in 1807, comprised some 10, 000 volumes that augmented the library's holdings by fifty percent, and extended their reach well beyond the contemporary curriculum ; of Hunter's 650 manuscript codices, over a hundred are illuminated, and his incunabula " accorded Glasgow a prominence that it could not have achieved with its own resources ".

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 novel also features one of the library's Ashmolean manuscripts ( Ashmole 782 ) as a central element of the book.

By 1920 the library's collection had grown to 4, 050, 000 volumes and 11, 000 manuscripts.

In 1872, however, the library's 45, 000 volumes, manuscripts, and archives were confiscated by the new Italian state ; they were dispersed and partially expropriated by the Vittorio Emanuele II National Library of Rome.

Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Project to Preserve Al Azhar Scripts and Publish Them Online ( the " Al-Azhar Online Project ") with the mission of eventually providing online access to the library's entire rare manuscripts collection ( comprising about seven million pages ).< ref >

Some of the library's early manuscripts, such as the famous Echternach Gospels, are now in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.

Many of the most important manuscripts and books have been digitized and made freely available to view on the library's website in its Digital Mirror.

* 1975 -- The purchase of the Hartford Collection of theological books and manuscripts in 1975 doubled the size of the library's holdings.

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.

In an effort to modernize the Vatican Library, Father Boyle set about the digitization of the library's many thousands of manuscripts that dated from hundreds of years BC, which would lead to their greater availability to scholars around the world.

Korff and his successor, Ivan Delyanov, added to the library's collections some of the earliest manuscripts of the New Testament ( the Codex Sinaiticus from the 340s ), the Old Testament ( the so-called Leningrad Codex ), and one of the earliest Qur ' ans ( the Uthman Qur ' an from the mid-7th century ).