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2 unusual facts about The Library


The Library

The Library, a planet from the Doctor Who episodes "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead"

The Library, a structure in Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2



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Alikovo folk theater

In 1933 in Alikovo the library opens.

Antonina Liedtke

She is a graduate of librarianship and information science from the University of Warsaw and worked in the library and publishing house of Warsaw University of Technology, and then the Publishing School of Economics.

Armenian Library and Museum of America

The library has one of the largest collections of important books on oriental rugs, and a very substantial collection, which continues to be expanded, on the Armenian Genocide.

Bomb plot against the Thomas Jefferson Cultural Center

Later investigation revealed that they had cased the library a week earlier, and had been met by a suspicious security guard, but DSS agent Brenden O'Hanlen instructed security to let them pass after photocopying their Jordanian passports and Palestinian identity cards.

Campus of New York University

In 2003, Bobst Library was also in the news for being the home of a homeless student who resided at the library because he could not afford student housing.

Cancionero de Medinaceli

It was copied during the second half of the 16th century and kept at the library of the Duke of Medinaceli's house, hence its name.

Central Library, IIT, Bombay

The library maintains Inter-library loan relations with a number of institutions and libraries including IITs, BARC, NITIE, NCST, IISc, IIG, TIFR, IGIDR, TISS and NICT for exchange of books, journals, photocopies and videocassette

Children's Museum of Oak Ridge

With the support of a $500 grant from Reader's Digest, it opened on March 11, 1973 in the library of the former Jefferson Junior High School.

Chodkevičiai Palace

Since 1994 it has been owned by the Lithuanian Art Museum and houses a picture gallery, administrative offices, the library, archive and art storage.

CHSR-FM

The library holds a large variety of musical genres, on a variety of formats (vinyl, cassettes, compact discs, etc.) from the past six decades.

Code of Hammurabi

It is currently on display in The Louvre, with exact replicas in the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, the library of the Theological University of the Reformed Churches (Dutch: Theologische Universiteit Kampen voor de Gereformeerde Kerken) in The Netherlands, the Pergamon Museum of Berlin and the National Museum of Iran in Tehran.

College of DuPage

In January 2000 the Library received the Excellence in Academic Libraries Award, sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries and Blackwells’ Book Services.

Constantine Andreou

In 1999, the library of the town La Ville-du-Bois, where Andreou resided while in France, was named in honor of Constantine Andreou.

Crawford Aramaic New Testament manuscript

It is held in the John Rylands Library in Manchester, and is sometimes called the "Crawford MS" because it is so inscribed on the backstrip after having previously been in the library of the oriental manuscript collector Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres.

Delicious Library

When A Brief History of Time is added, the library talks about science concepts in a mock-synthesized voice;

DiMenna–Nyselius Library

Steady technological improvements continued to augment the library-a CD-ROM reference center in 1990 thanks to the Gladys Brooks Foundation; a CD-ROM LAN in 1991 thanks to grants from the E.L. Cord Foundation and the George I. Alden Trust; an online public access catalog in 1993; and a computer lab with 25 workstations in 1997.

Double Fold

Christened the "Erin Brockovich of the library world" by the New York Times, Baker is not shy about placing blame on the custodians of the nation's heritage and intellect: "The library has gone astray partly because we trusted the librarians so completely." (p. 104).

Evanston Public Library

In 1893 the library moved to the second floor of the new Village Hall in 1893 and the library's collection was reorganized according to the new Dewey Decimal Classification system in 1896.

Everett Public Library

The library has noteworthy artworks, including works by Dudley Pratt, Ransom Patrick, Guy Anderson, Jack Gunter, and Sonja Blomdahl.

Ferdinand Columbus

Despite this precaution, the ownership of the library was contested for several decades after Fernando's death until it passed into the hands of the Cathedral in Seville, Spain.

Forum Popilii

In 1073 during the episcopate of Pietro, Peter Damian went to Forlimpopoli to reform ecclesiastical disciplines, and on this occasion is thought to have delivered a sermon on St. Rufillus, which Vecchiazzani, an historian of this city, claims to have discovered at Rimini in the Library of St. Jerome.

Gander Public Library

In 1967 the library was moved again to the town hall, buying additional books in an auction from Boots UK as the firm discontinued the sale of these items in their business.

General John Frelinghuysen House

The library contains memorabilia dedicated to the memory of Medal of Honor recipient John Basilone.

Google Guava

The library's design and code were advised and reviewed by Joshua Bloch, the original lead designer of the Java Collections framework, and Doug Lea, one of the lead designers of concurrency utilities in JDK.

Hallucinations: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults

As the title suggests, all 24 tracks were taken from the library of the Warner Music Group.

Holy Hill

Holy Hill, a hill in Berkeley, California which is the site of a number of seminaries and the library of the Graduate Theological Union

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin

In 1789, Augustinian Carlo Amoretti, Italian Encyclopedist and librarian of Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, discovered the authentic Italian manuscript of Antonio Pigafetta among the scattered holdings of the library.

Johann Weikhard von Valvasor

In 1690, Aleksandar Ignacije Mikulić, the Bishop of Zagreb, bought his library, along with some 7300 graphics, and moved it to Slavonia, where the collection became part of the library of the Zagreb Archbishopric, now part of the Croatian State Archives.

Józef Piłsudski Institute of America

After extensive reorganization of the library collection in the mid-1990s it was discovered that the Institute possessed duplicate copies of certain publications, which were then offered to American and Polish academic institutions and the University of Düsseldorf.

Konrad Pellikan

On returning to Rouffach, he taught gratis in the Franciscan convent school that he might borrow books from the library, and in his sixteenth year resolved to become a friar.

Leonard Costello

A collection of documents relating to the case has been deposited in the library of the University of Exeter.

Leonid Andreyev

Copies of his The Seven Who Were Hanged and The Red Laugh were found in the library of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, as listed in the "Lovecraft's Library" catalogue by S.T. Joshi.

Lilly Library

In 2006, the library received a collection of 30,000 mechanical puzzles from Jerry Slocum.

Lochamer-Liederbuch

The Lochamer-Liederbuch was part of the library of the Prince of Stolberg-Wernigerode in Wernigerode.

Michael Peter Woroniecki

"The grass and goalposts were the same but I was changed" says Woroniecki, adding that he found significance in the recently painted Touchdown Jesus on the library mural right in front of him.

Milred

A work by Milred, a compilation of epigrams and epigraphs on Anglo-Saxon churchmen, some of whom are known only from this work, is now lost apart from a single 10th century copy of one page, held by the library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Minuscule 238

The second part (Luke-John) was sold by Matthaei to the library in Dresden.

New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection is a collection of the library at the Victoria University of Wellington which provides a free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials.

Old Dublin Society

The Library of the Old Dublin Society is located in the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) premises, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

Petite bibliothèque ronde

For these peculiarities, the photographer Martine Franck made a report for Life Magazine and the Japanese Empress came to visit the library.

Process.h

Most C compilers that target DOS, Windows 3.1x, Win32, OS/2, Novell NetWare or DOS extenders supply this header and the library functions in their C library.

Rossi Codex

A smaller section of the manuscript is in the library of the Fondazione Greggiati in Ostiglia (Biblioteca musicale Opera Pia "G. Greggiati").

Royal Grammar School, Guildford

The oldest book within the library was printed in Venice around 1480, with the oldest English book printed in about 1500 bearing the imprint of Wynkyn de Worde.

Sibyl

The library of Pope Julius II in the Vatican has images of sibyls and they are in the pavement of the Siena Cathedral.

Skycraft Scout

Using sources referenced from the library at Sydney Technical College and Hurstville local Library he built up a working knowledge of aerodynamics.

Social Law Library

Many of the proprietors of the library were chief justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, including Theophilus Parsons, Lemuel Shaw, Horace Gray, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr..

Stephen Batman

Afterwards Archbishop Parker selected him as one of his domestic chaplains, and employed him in the collection of the library now deposited in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

In May 2006, VWML Online was launched which hosts a number of the library's indexes to manuscript collections, together with its index to mummers' plays and the Roud Folk Song and Broadside Indexes, the largest of their kind in the English language.

William A. Rusher

He was in the news during the hearings for the Samuel Alito Supreme Court nomination in 2005, when he allowed Senate staff members to inspect documents related to the Concerned Alumni of Princeton group, in which Alito was tangentially involved, in the Rusher Papers at the Library of Congress.

Willingboro Public Library

In December 1964, a fire forced the library to find temporary headquarters at the Willingboro Plaza.