Special library, the Glossary

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1. 97 relations: Academic library, American Association of Law Libraries, American Library Association, American Theological Library Association, Art Institute of Chicago, Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies, Association of UK Media Librarians, Australia, Australian Library and Information Association, Baptists, Canada, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, Competitive intelligence, Corporate library, Corporation, Dance, Drew University, Education for librarianship, Engineer, Federal judiciary of the United States, Film, General contractor, Guy St. Clair, Hymnology, Institute of Museum and Library Services, International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres, International Theological Institute, Japan, Jewish Theological Seminary Library, Judge, Juilliard School, Juris Doctor, Law clerk, Law library, Law Library of Congress, Lawyer, Legal education, Librarian, Librarian of Congress, Library, Library and information science, Library of Congress, Lincoln Center, List of library associations, Medical library, Medical Library Association, Melbourne, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center), Military library, ... Expand index (47 more) »

2. Libraries by type
3. Types of library

Academic library

An academic library is a library that is attached to a higher education institution and serves two complementary purposes: to support the curriculum and the research of the university faculty and students. Special library and academic library are types of library.

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American Association of Law Libraries

The American Association of Law Libraries "is a nonprofit educational organization with over 5,000 members nationwide.

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American Library Association

The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally.

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American Theological Library Association

The American Theological Library Association (Atla) is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3), professional association, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States.

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Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies

The Association of Specialized, Government, and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASGCLA) is a defunct division of the American Library Association (ALA), which is the oldest and largest library association in the world.

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The Association of UK Media Librarians (AUKML) was formed in 1986 to create a network of information professionals in the print and broadcasting industries as up until this point there had been no organised body to represent them.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Library and Information Association

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), formerly the Australian Institute of Librarians and Library Association of Australia, is the peak professional organisation for the Australian library and information services sector.

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Baptists

Baptists form a major branch of evangelicalism distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete immersion.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP, pronounced) is a professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers in the United Kingdom.

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Competitive intelligence

Competitive intelligence (CI) is the process and forward-looking practices used in producing knowledge about the competitive environment to improve organizational performance.

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Corporate library

A corporate library is a special library serving the staff at a corporation. Special library and corporate library are types of library.

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Corporation

A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law as "born out of statute"; a legal person in a legal context) and recognized as such in law for certain purposes.

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Dance

Dance is an art form, often classified as a sport, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected.

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Drew University

Drew University is a private university in Madison, New Jersey.

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Education for librarianship

Education for librarianship, including for paraprofessional library workers, varies around the world, and has changed over time.

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Engineer

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost.

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Federal judiciary of the United States

The federal judiciary of the United States is one of the three branches of the federal government of the United States organized under the United States Constitution and laws of the federal government.

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Film

A film (British English) also called a movie (American English), motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.

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General contractor

A contractor (North American English) or builder (British English), is responsible for the day-to-day oversight of a construction site, management of vendors and trades, and the communication of information to all involved parties throughout the course of a building project.

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Guy St. Clair

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Hymnology

Hymnology (from Greek ὕμνος hymnos, "song of praise" and -λογία -logia, "study of") is the scholarly study of religious song, or the hymn, in its many aspects, with particular focus on choral and congregational song.

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Institute of Museum and Library Services

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is an independent agency of the United States federal government established in 1996.

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International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres

The International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML)Also known as Association Internationale des Bibliothèques, Archives et Centres de Documentation Musicaux (AIBM) and Internationale Vereinigung der Musikbibliotheken, Musikarchive und Musikdokumentationszentren (IVMB) is an organisation of libraries with music departments, music conservatory libraries, radio and orchestra archives, university institutes, music documentation centers, music publishers, and music dealers that fosters international cooperation and promotes music bibliography and music library science.

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International Theological Institute

ITI Catholic University (German: Katholische Hochschule ITI) is a Catholic theological school in Austria.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Jewish Theological Seminary Library

The Jewish Theological Seminary Library is one of the largest Jewish libraries in the world.

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Judge

A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges.

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Juilliard School

The Juilliard School is a private performing arts conservatory in New York City.

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Juris Doctor

A Juris Doctor, Doctor of Jurisprudence, or Doctor of Law (JD) is a graduate-entry professional degree that primarily prepares individuals to practice law.

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Law clerk

A law clerk, judicial clerk, or judicial assistant is a person, often a lawyer, who provides direct counsel and assistance to a lawyer or judge by researching issues and drafting legal opinions for cases before the court.

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Law library

A law library is a special library used by law students, lawyers, judges and their law clerks, historians, and other scholars of legal history in order to research the law.

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Law Library of Congress

The Law Library of Congress is the law library of the United States Congress.

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Lawyer

A lawyer is a person who practices law.

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Legal education

Legal education is the education of individuals in the principles, practices, and theory of law.

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Librarian

A librarian is a person who works professionally in a library providing access to information, and sometimes social or technical programming, or instruction on information literacy to users.

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Librarian of Congress

The librarian of Congress is the head of the Library of Congress, appointed by the president of the United States with the advice and consent of the United States Senate, for a term of ten years.

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Library

A library is a collection of books, and possibly other materials and media, that is accessible for use by its members and members of allied institutions.

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Library and information science

Library and information science (LIS)Library and Information Sciences is the name used in the Dewey Decimal Classification for class 20 from the 18th edition (1971) to the 22nd edition (2003) are two interconnected disciplines that deal with the organization, access, collection, and regulation of information, both in physical and digital forms.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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List of library associations

Library associations connect libraries and library workers at the local, national, and international level.

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Medical library

A health or medical library is designed to assist physicians, health professionals, students, patients, consumers, medical researchers, and information specialists in finding health and scientific information to improve, update, assess, or evaluate health care. Special library and medical library are types of library.

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Medical Library Association

The Medical Library Association (MLA) is a nonprofit educational organization with more than 3,400 health-sciences information professional members.

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Melbourne

Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.

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Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center)

The Metropolitan Opera House (also known as The Met) is an opera house located on Broadway at Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.

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Military library

A military library or base library, is a special library used by military personnel, their dependents, and civilian contractors located within or associated with a military base or defense organization. Special library and military library are libraries by type.

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Museum

A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying and/or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects.

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Museums Victoria

Museums Victoria is an organisation which operates three major state-owned museums in Melbourne, Victoria: the Melbourne Museum, the Immigration Museum and Scienceworks Museum.

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Music

Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content.

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Music Library Association

The Music Library Association (MLA) of the United States is the main professional organization for music libraries and librarians (including those whose music materials form only part of their responsibilities and collections).

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Music publisher

A music publisher is a type of publisher that specializes in distributing music.

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Musicology

Musicology (from Greek μουσική 'music' and -λογια, 'domain of study') is the scholarly study of music.

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National Archives and Records Administration

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government within the executive branch, charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records.

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National library

A national library is a library established by a government as a country's preeminent repository of information. Special library and national library are types of library.

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National Museum of Natural History

The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, is located at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, in the Lincoln Center complex on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York City.

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One-person library

A one-person library (OPL) is a library led by a single person or a single professional librarian without any professional library peers. Special library and one-person library are libraries by type and types of library.

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Performing arts

The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience.

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Presidential library system

In the United States, the presidential library system is a nationwide network of 16 libraries administered by the Office of Presidential Libraries, which is part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

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Public library

A public library is a library, most often a lending library, that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes.

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Public policy

Public policy is an institutionalized proposal or a decided set of elements like laws, regulations, guidelines, and actions to solve or address relevant and real-world problems, guided by a conception and often implemented by programs.

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Puritans

The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of England of what they considered to be Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant.

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Research

Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge".

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Research institute

A research institute, research centre, research center or research organization is an establishment founded for doing research.

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Research library

A research library is a library that contains an in-depth collection of material on one or several subjects. Special library and research library are types of library.

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Ryerson & Burnham Libraries

The Ryerson & Burnham Libraries are the art and architecture research collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Selective dissemination of information

Selective dissemination of information ("SDI") was originally a phrase related to library and information science.

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Sheet music

Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of musical notation that uses musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms, or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece.

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Special Libraries Association

The Special Libraries Association (SLA) is an international professional association for library and information professionals working in business, government, law, finance, non-profit, and academic organizations and institutions.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Theatre

Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.

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Transport

Transport (in British English) or transportation (in American English) is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another.

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Transportation library

A transportation library is a type of library designed to support the study, research, and dissemination of information related to transportation.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United Methodist Church

The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a worldwide mainline Protestant denomination based in the United States, and a major part of Methodism.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.

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United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock food production, promotes agricultural trade and production, works to assure food safety, protects natural resources, fosters rural communities and works to end hunger in the United States and internationally.

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United States Department of Commerce

The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government concerned with creating the conditions for economic growth and opportunity.

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United States Department of Defense

The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the U.S. government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Department of Energy

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production, the research and development of nuclear power, the military's nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy, energy-related research, and energy conservation.

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United States Department of Health and Human Services

The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government created to protect the health of the U.S. people and providing essential human services.

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United States Department of Homeland Security

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries.

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United States Department of Justice

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States.

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United States Department of the Interior

The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources.

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United States Department of Transportation

The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT or DOT) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government.

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United States Department of Veterans Affairs

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a Cabinet-level executive branch department of the federal government charged with providing lifelong healthcare services to eligible military Veterans at the 170 VA medical centers and outpatient clinics located throughout the country.

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University

A university is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines.

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Urban planner

An urban planner (also known as town planner) is a professional who practices in the field of town planning, urban planning or city planning.

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Vatican Library

The Vatican Apostolic Library (Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana), more commonly known as the Vatican Library or informally as the Vat, is the library of the Holy See, located in Vatican City, and is the city-state's national library.

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Vivian Beaumont Theater

The Vivian Beaumont Theater is a Broadway theater in the Lincoln Center complex at 150 West 65th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.

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See also

Libraries by type

• Academic libraries
• Anarchist archives
• Association library
• Bookless library
• Cabinet de lecture
• Chained library
• Children's libraries
• Circulating library
• Distributed library
• Hybrid library
• Learning Resource Centre
• Library of things
• Military library
• Mobile libraries
• Multimedia library
• National libraries
• One-person library
• Prison library
• Private libraries
• Public libraries
• Research libraries
• School library
• Slide library
• Special library
• Subscription libraries
• Tool libraries

Types of library

• Academic library
• Association library
• Bookless library
• Borrowing center
• Cabinet de lecture
• Chained library
• Circulating library
• Corporate library
• Digital library
• Distributed library
• Hybrid library
• Learning Resource Centre
• Learning commons
• Lending library
• Library of things
• Medical library
• Multimedia library
• National library
• One-person library
• Prison library
• Private library
• Public bookcase
• Research library
• School library
• Seed library
• Shadow library
• Slide library
• Special library
• Subscription library
• Tool library
• Toy library
• Traveling library
• Universal library
• Vidéothèque

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_library

Also known as Hemeroteca, Special libraries.

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