Library
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The
Vatican Apostolic Library in Rome, one of the oldest libraries in the world, contains one of the most significant collections of historical texts[1]
A
library (from French "librairie"; Latin "liber" = book) is
an organized collection of resources made accessible to a defined
community for reference or borrowing. It provides physical or digital
access to material, and may be a physical building or room, or a virtual
space, or both.
[2] A library's collection can include books, periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts, films, maps, prints, documents, microform, CDs, cassettes, videotapes, DVDs, video games, e-books, audiobooks
and other formats. Libraries range in size from a few shelves of books
to several million items. In Latin and Greek the idea of bookcase is represented by Bibliotheca and Bibliotheke (Greek: βιβλιοθήκη): derivatives of these mean library in many modern languages, e.g. French bibliothèque.
