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.

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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.

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

Thanks to donations by the public and the regaining of books that had been kept during the War, the library's collection grew rapidly.

It is likely that as she grew up her thirst for knowledge could not be satisfied with the library's books.

During Thomas ' tenure the library's collection and programming grew to a size appropriate to a small liberal arts college.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

On July 16, 2007 Marylou Whitney and her husband John Hendrickson donated $ 250, 000 to the Long Lake Library, a gift of five times the library's operating budget.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.