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.

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.

" According to Patrick Loughney, the library's film and TV curator, this print is " thirty-nine feet and fourteen frames frames short of 40 feet.

Virtually all print issues are available from 1871 to the present in the library's George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives.

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 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 library's holdings are included in the online catalogue of the library of the University of Kent.

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

Online database searching is available to complement the library's on-campus holdings.

Stanley Pargellis, the fifth Newberry librarian ( 1942 – 1962 ), broadened the library's mission, launching scholarly outreach programs ( such as fellowships, conferences, and the Newberry Library Bulletin ) to publicize the library's holdings and encourage their use.

During his tenure, Evans opposed censorship of the library's holdings, and greatly expanded the library's collection.

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

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

* 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.

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 ".

Construction began in 1967 to house those parts of the library's evacuated holdings from the western Allied occupation zones at the end of World War II.

During his tenure at Columbia, he quadrupled the University's endowment, added a dozen new buildings to the Morningside Heights campus, and doubled the University library's holdings.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Before the advent of digital OPACs and the Internet, the work of creating and maintaining a library's authority files was generally carried out by individual cataloging departments ( if it was done at all ).

Fire eventually broke out in 1952, in the library's cupola, and caused extensive damage through smoke and water.