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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Unfortunately, due to the fire following the earthquake of 1755, nearly all of the library's records were destroyed, but an extra copy available in Goa, was transferred to Lisbon Tower of Tombo, during the following 100 years.

Having destroyed a number of texts of the library's collection, deemed by Juvayni to be heretical, it would be expected that he would pay significant attention to the Nizari gardens, particularly if they were the site of drug use and temptation.

Cfront's C ++ streams were closely tied in with the C library's buffered I / O streams, but there was little interaction with the rest of the C environment.

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.

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.

The library's staff, services and 400, 000 volumes were relocated to temporary quarters at Redwood Street and Hopkins Place for a two-year stay.

The library's 7, 000 volumes were collected primarily by Boston bookseller Estes & Lauriat, and donated to Rugby's Library and Reading Room Society with the stipulation they name the new library for Hughes.

The library's Chaney-Schwerner-Goodman Clocktower was named after the three civil rights workers who were murdered in 1964, including Andrew Goodman, a Queens College student.

In the library's first year, 2. 3 million people came to visit the library, roughly 30 % were out-of-town.

By the 1920s, the upkeep of such a major collection was too much for a private body, and, with an endowment of £ 100, 000 provided by Sir Alexander Grant of Forres, the library's contents were presented to the nation.

The library's print holdings were reviewed to weed out the oldest, outdated sources, making room for additional study places.

Some 400, 000 volumes — 20 percent of the library's holdings — were destroyed, with significant water and smoke damage done to the surviving works.

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

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.

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.

Decisions about book selections and the library's program were in the hands of an all-male faculty committee instead of the female librarian.

In response, the Law Society argued that the services it offered were necessary to provide equal access to the library's collection of legal materials.

Peniston became director of the Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University, retired again, and subsequently began volunteering in the Special Collections section of the college's Leyburn Library, where he transcribed more than 3, 000 letters from the library's Robert E. Lee collection and Lee-Jackson Foundation Papers.