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23 unusual facts about library


Accounting Research Bulletins

With the permission of the AICPA, the full text of Accounting Research Bulletins has been posted on the website of the J.D. Williams Library of the University of Mississippi.

Adolphe Brune

He decorated the 'Salle des Séances' of the Senate in the Luxembourg, and the ceiling of the Bibliothèque of the Louvre.

Blue Line – Library

The Blue Line – Library (formerly the 47L Library via Overbrook) is a line on the Pittsburgh Light Rail system that runs between Library and Downtown Pittsburgh via the Overbrook neighborhood.

Central Catholic Library

This holds books which came to the Library from the Academy of Christian Art and other sources, to which was added a valuable donation of books on modern and non-European art by a member of the board of the Chester Beatty Library.

Foundation and Empire

At the Great Library, Ebling Mis works continuously until his health fatally deteriorates.

Franklin, Virginia

YMCA, the Texie Camp Marks Children's Center, and The Ruth Camp Campbell Memorial Library.

Ixemul.library

It allows software for Unix-like platforms to be easily compiled on Amiga systems with minimal source code modification.

Lee Pierce Butler

Butler worked at the Newberry Library in Chicago from 1916 to 1919, and went on to lead its John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing.

Library, Pennsylvania

Library, Pennsylvania is an unincorporated community in South Park Township, Pennsylvania along Brownsville Road.

Linen Hall Library

It was decided that it should begin to allow and encourage free public reference access and to concentrate particularly on Irish studies, politics and culture, both because it was already strong in these areas and so as not to compete with the expanded Central Reference Library.

Morris W. Turner

He worked to insure the success of the since-named Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport, the Canyon Lakes project, and the George and Helen Mahon Public Library, named for former U.S. Representative George Mahon of Lubbock.

Municipal Conservatory of Barcelona

During this period, the students orchestra (conducted by Edmon Colomer) had a certain stability, the Music Museum was moved to the Quadras house, and the first steps in order to create the Library of the Conservatory were made.

Nan Youngman

A collection of her correspondence and papers relating to her work of promoting art through education are held by the University of Reading Library.

Nancy Chunn

Chicago Library Uptown Branch, Chicago, IL, permanent installation painting, commissioned by the City of Chicago, 1993-1995.

National Library of Russia

In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, the institution was placed under the management of Ernest Radlov and Nicholas Marr, although its national preeminence was relinquished to the Lenin State Library in Moscow.

The cornerstone of the foreign-language department came from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the form of Załuski's Library (420,000 volumes), nationalized by the Russian government at the time of the partitions.

P N Panicker

Puthuvayil Narayana Panicker is known as the Father of the Library Movement in Kerala.

Rental Directive

Member States may allow a derogation for public lending (i.e. public libraries) provided that authors obtain

Stephen Stanko

Stanko was convicted, after a failed insanity defense, of strangling his girlfriend Laura Ling, 43, the librarian who lived with him outside Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, shooting Henry Lee Turner, 74, and sexually assaulting and stabbing Ling's teenage daughter, who survived and made the 911 call for help.

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

The Nobility

To promote the book, the band played full-volume rock shows in libraries across the United States.

Württembergische Landesbibliothek

The WLB bible collection is considered by many to be one of the most important in the world, only second to the British Library's collection.


Adyar Library

The Adyar library is also used by post-graduate students in Sanskrit and Indology of the University of Madras.

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.

Architecture of Aberdeen

Constructed in 1892, to a design by open competition winner Alexander Brown, the Central Library, which was opened by its benefactor Andrew Carnegie, stands at the west end of the terrace.

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.

BGI

Borland Graphics Interface, a graphics library included with many Borland compiler products in the 1990s

Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

The majority of poems printed were obtained from the University of Maryland Library Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Papers, as well as the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Library's The Little Review Records.

Boldre

The British Library copy contains many amendments in Comyn's own hand and there is also a copy in the University of Southampton Library, Cope Collection.

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;

Dioxippus

This story was recorded by the ancient historians Diodorus Siculus and Quintus Curtius Rufus, in "Library of History" and "The History of Alexander", respectively.

Dublin City Public Libraries and Archive

The philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) funded the building of four Carnegie Libraries in the Dublin City Public Libraries branch network, Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street; Rathmines Library (terracotta by the famous Gibbs and Canning of Tamworth, Staffordshire); Pembroke Library and Charleville Mall Library.

Edward Mardigian

Pleased with the work of the Armenian Research Center and with the generosity of the Mardigians towards the University, which has extended beyond their original contributions, the then Chancellor of the Dearborn campus, William A. Jenkins, recommended to the President of The University of Michigan, at that time Harold Shapiro, that the University name the campus library the Edward and Helen Mardigian Library.

Erich J. Kesse

Under Kesse's leadership, the Digital Library Center was awarded a number of grants, including grants for the Florida Digital Newspaper Library, the Digital Library of the Caribbean, the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature Digital Collection, and many others.

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.

Global Arrays

The GA library is incorporated into many quantum chemistry packages, including NWChem, MOLPRO, UTChem, MOLCAS, and TURBOMOLE.

Herbert White

Herbert S. White (born 1927), American professor of library science

Interlingua Division of Science Service

The Interlingua Division also made publications of the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA) available, facilitated contacts among professionals of the same discipline, and opened IALA's extensive library, which included technical and general dictionaries, to the public at no cost.

Jinling Library

Jinling Library, with a total of two million books, is now located at 158 Leshan Road, Jianye District.

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.

John Richard Walbran

His manuscripts were after his death purchased by Edward Akroyd of Halifax, and presented by him to York Cathedral Library.

Kalisha Buckhanon

She found author Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye at Kankakee Public Library and became empowered to write from a Black female perspective.

Khazar University Library Information Center

It maintains three branches open to the public: The main library on the Nefchilar Campus; the MBA branch on the downtown Baku campus; and the Alatava campus library (at the Dunya School, a K-12 IB World School which is affiliated with the university).

Lib.ru

On April 1, 2004 the "KM Online" media company, which is known for forming its own library by copying texts from the other electronic libraries, issued a lawsuit against Maksim Moshkow's Library in the name of Eduard Gevorkian, Marina Alekseyeva (pen-name "Alexandra Marinina"), Vasili Golovachov and Elena Katasonova.

Ludwig Milde

The Sibley Music Library at the Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester) lists "19--?" as the date for the Opus 24 studies ("Hofmeister Studienwerke; 7381"), but "1964-1966" for the Opus 26 studies.

Mary John, Sr.

In January, 2008 the Vanderhoof Public Library opened the Mary John Collection, a collection of 800 books on First Nations topics created in her honor.

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.

Momo Kapor

The generations of people from former Yugoslavia were connected through Kapor's writings which have become best sellers in Zagreb's house of "knowledge" and its famous library "hit".

Morrison I. Swift

Swift briefly assumed the presidency of Hobart College where he built up the college’s library and gained a reputation for assigning post-graduate level work to undergraduates.

Nakamura Kichiemon I

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Nakamura Kichiemon I, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 10+ works in 20+ publications in 2 languages and 80+ library holdings.

Nicolas Sidjakov

In 1961 he won the Caldecott Medal from the American Library Association for illustrating Baboushka and the Three Kings, a retelling

Old Lyme, Connecticut

John McCurdy (b.1724), whose home was the resting place for George Washington on April 10, 1776 while traveling to New York City to take on the British Army and Navy (source: Papers of George Washington, Connecticut State Library); grandfather of Connecticut Supreme Court judge Charles McCurdy

Playa Vista, Los Angeles

The Los Angeles Public Library operates the new Playa Vista Branch Library with a community meeting room.

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.

Robert Love

He also wrote Linux System Programming, is now in its second edition, subtitled Talking Directly to the Kernel and C Library, and published by O'Reilly Media.

Robert Morrison MacIver

His work in that field was distinguished by his acumen, his philosophical understanding, and extensive study of the major pioneering works of Durkheim, Toennies, Max and Alfred Weber, Simmel and others in the British Museum Library in London, while resident as a student in Oxford.

Robert S. Martin

Dr. Martin has authored several publications and served on editorial boards of scholarly library journals such as American Archivist, The Library Quarterly, Libraries and Culture and Meridian.

Samuel Timmins

-- A book relating the History of this library was written in 1903. A copy can be located on floor 3 of Birmingham Central Library.-->

Savannah Smiles

The latest DVD release was issued September 26, 2006 by Anchor Bay, under license from Savannah Smiles Productions and StudioCanal (current rights holder of the Embassy theatrical library).

Sibyl

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

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.

STK

Synthesis Toolkit, a cross-platform library in C++ for sound synthesis and physical modelling

The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

It was released by the Listening Library on 22 May 2007 and narrated by Denis O'Hare.

Trinity College Library

However, Lucasfilm denied that the Long Room was the basis for the Jedi archives, and officials from Trinity College Library decided not to take legal actions.

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.

Whitehawk

The Community Centre, along with a new library, including a toy library for children was opened by Princess Alexandra in November 1973 in Whitehawk Road.

William Bourne Oliver Peabody

Peabody wrote several biographies for Sparks's Library of American Biography, namely, those of David Brainerd, Cotton Mather, James Oglethorpe, and Alexander Wilson.

Zanobi Acciaioli

He learned Greek and Hebrew towards the latter part of his life, and was appointed in 1518 prefect of the Vatican Library.

Zimbabwe Grounds

It is surrounded by Old Highfield section on the greater part and share borders with Takashinga cricket ground (home ground of Andy Flower and Tatenda Taibu), Zimbabwe Hall, Highfield Library, a Nursery School, Anglican Church and Chipembere Primary School annexe.