An antiquated or clumsy search system, or staff unwilling or untrained to engage their patrons, will limit a library's usefulness.

The library's initial design was for a mechanical book conveyor belt system to allow for faster collection by library staff, who would then send books downstairs for pickup.

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.

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.

Boyle also extended the opening hours of the library and employed women for the first time as part of the library's staff.

The library's website provides access to the library catalog, the KnowItNow24x7 online chat reference service, nearly 150 commercial research databases, bestseller lists, staff reading recommendations, and other information resources.

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.

Such luminaries as Krylov, Konstantin Batyushkov, Nikolay Gnedich, Anton Delvig, Mikhail Zagoskin, Alexander Vostokov, and Father Ioakinf joined the library staff and the library's doors were opened to all kinds of readers, including women and peasants.

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.

Though the NDL's original mandate was to be a research library for the National Diet, the general public is the largest consumer of the library's services.

) applications in a library's suite of online services.

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.

The mission of the National Library of the Netherlands, as presented on the library's web site, is to provide " access to the knowledge and culture of the past and the present by providing high-quality services for research, study, and cultural experience ".

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

It was later published at about 50, 000 words under the name, Fahrenheit 451, for a total cost of $ 9. 80, due to the library's typewriter-rental fees of ten cents per half-hour.

Hearing of the College's urgent need for greater library space, Williams donated £ 1, 200 anonymously, later revealing his identity and donating a total of £ 2, 011 towards the library's total cost of £ 3, 000.

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

The library's cost was $ 150, 000.

The library's collection consists of 100, 000 books and periodicals, 2, 500 CDs, records, cassettes and other audio materials, in addition to 2, 500 video items.

Approximately 10, 000 books and games are sold, with all proceeds benefiting the library's programs.

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.

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.

The majority of the library's collection — 820, 000 volumes — is housed in a six-floor tower adjacent to the Palazzo Centrale.

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.

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.

The core of the library's collection was formed around 40, 000 books, including many rarities, assembled by George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, which Mrs Rylands purchased from Lord Spencer in 1892.

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.

Tropical Storm Allison flooded the library's lower level with eight feet of water in June 2001, destroying 174, 000 books and the microfiche collection.

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.

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 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.

In 1863, the library's collection comprised 1, 000 volumes that had been transferred from the U. S. Patent Office's Agricultural Division.

By 1889, the library's collection had increased to 20, 000 volumes, and a librarian from Amherst College was hired to create a classification system for the library's collection.

His primary achievement was consolidating the library's collection of 38, 000 volumes into one central library ; previously, more than half of the library's collection was held in divisional libraries across the United States.

By 1900, the library's collection contained 68, 000 volumes, and in 1915, the library was moved to a larger facility in the Bieber Office Building at 1358 B Street SW, Washington, DC.

The library's distinguished History of Science Collection contains more than 10, 000 volumes, including first editions of many landmarks of science and technology.

An editorial in The New York Times complained, “ Popular it certainly is not, and, so greatly is it lacking in the essentials of a public library, that its stores might almost as well be under lock and key, for any access the masses of the people can get thereto .” An article in The Sun of March 4, 1873, reported problems with the mutilation of some of the library's volumes.

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 ".

The library's collection consists of books, reports, conference proceedings, back volumes of periodicals, standards, theses, microforms, CD-ROM, floppies, and audio-visual material.

The library's annual summer book sale featured more than 140, 000 volumes on sale in 2007.

In 1811 the library's collection began to grow rapidly, because a copy of each book published in Imperial Russia was henceforth deposited with the library, so that by 1914 the collection had expanded to 3, 000, 000 volumes.