abuilding,room, ororganizationthat has acollectionofbooks,documents,music, and sometimes things such astoolsorartwork, forpeopletoborrow, usually withoutpayment:
apublic/universitylibrary公共／大学图书馆
a librarybook图书馆藏书
Some libraries werelendingMP3playerstostudents.
She set up atoylibrary forlocalparentsandtoddlers.
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acollectionor set ofbooksorrecordings, allproducedin the samestyleor about the samesubject:
I do not mean that the mere implements of knowledge - books, libraries, laboratories, seminars - distinguish man from the brute.
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If resources were not generally tight, one would recommend major libraries to buy two copies and catalogue and shelve them in two appropriately different sections.
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The fate of the monastic libraries serves in popular imagination as a classic example of mindless iconoclasm.
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The sample libraries listed at the end are basically of three kinds.
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First, there are the older libraries which were the forerunners of the public libraries.
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In metropolitan areas the districts are responsible for education, social services and libraries.
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Local newspapers, of course, have their own libraries and records.
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Few books came into the libraries and virtually none arrived in university bookstores.
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We also found that the overall pattern of use of libraries and academic offices followed that of teaching space.
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Ethnographers had first explored the census tracts, mapping stores, businesses, churches, day care centers, libraries, schools, recreation centers, and services.
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All music libraries and resource centres should obtain copies.
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Discussions of recordings and of the use of libraries occupied a tiny portion of the lessons overall.
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Slightly over a third said they took their children to libraries on a frequent basis.
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I recommend it for libraries and personal use.
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As such the text will meet the needs of professional breeders, agronomists and researchers, and is an obvious buy for their libraries.
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Collocationswithlibrary
library
These are words often used in combination withlibrary.
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academic library
We simply could not afford the time to publish a poorly illustrated, jargon ridden publication which collected, dusty and unread on academic library shelves.
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central library
There is a central library containing a non-fiction book stock which is situated in the education department to which all inmates who wish have access.
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county library
It will thus be divorced, as it is now, from thecountylibraryservice.
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