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 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.

The library's collections include exquisite medieval illuminated manuscripts, examples of early European printing including a fine paper copy of the Gutenberg Bible and books printed by William Caxton, and personal papers of distinguished historical figures including Elizabeth Gaskell, John Dalton and John Wesley.

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.

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

The library's collection consists of over 250, 000 books, two dozen public computers, a wide array of multimedia options, a large youth services area with a vivid mural depicting Westfield history, and multiple tables and carrels for studying.

This has contributed to the library's large holdings of over seven million books and 1. 5 million periodicals.

The library's annual acquisition budget is over US $ 1. 8 million.

A little over 1 % of the library's $ 28 million construction costs went toward the purchase and installation of a glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly that hangs from the ceiling of the two-story library lobby.

The library's collection includes over 200, 000 individual titles, 900 periodical titles, over 100 databases, 14, 500 musical recordings, 690 audiobooks, 13, 000 instructional videos, and an extensive rental video collection.

The library also maintains a vertical file of over 3000 essays written by Wisconsin Synod pastors and professors, many of which can be accessed on the library's essay file website.

This meant that there could be a fair amount of disagreement among libraries over which form of a given name was considered authoritative ; so long as a library's catalog was internally consistent, differences between catalogs did not matter greatly.

Hord bequeathed to the San Diego Public Library his lifelong collection of books and several sculptures in appreciation for the assistance he had received from library's staff over the years.

The library's contents grew over the next five decades and were saved from the 1916 fire that destroyed the majority of the Centre Block ; the building was only connected to the main complex by a single corridor and the library clerk at the time, Michael MacCormac, secured the library's iron doors before the fire could spread into that area.

The library's collection numbers over 2 million items.

Some concern has been raised over the library's assertion of usage and distribution control rights over the images it hosts, despite the lack of copyright status on the images due to expiration: " As the physical rights holder of this material, most of which is in the public domain for copyright purposes, the Library charges a usage fee to license an image for commercial use ...

The library's film digitisation project, Wellcome Film, is in the process of digitising over 450 titles from this collection.

To the humans ' horror, Earthvoice and the Angels agree to share both the library's knowledge and power over the Earth, with the Angels also urging that Earthvoice exterminates the crew for safety.

Collections are developed by librarians and library staff by buying or otherwise acquiring materials over a period, based on assessment of the information needs of the library's users.

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 ".

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 Board of Trustees subsequently voted the contract down by a 7 – 0 vote, citing concerns over ' fair share ' proposals built into the contract.

Renowned American sculptor Donal Hord bequeathed to the San Diego Public Library his lifelong collection of books and several sculptures in appreciation for the assistance he had received from library's staff over the years.

The library's collection comprises 600, 000 items, covering hundreds of years of history and tended by a staff of 300.

Further, in 1883, the library's 300 gas lights were converted to electricity.