library

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. athenaeum, bookroom. See store.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. books, book collection, manuscripts, manuscript collection, institution, public library, ambry, bookery, athenaeum, private library, book room, lending library, collection of manuscripts, circuLating library, reference library, reference collection, archives, museum, treasury, thesaurus, muniments, memorabilia, rare books, incunabula, incunables, reading room; see also building 1 .

Great libraries of the world include: Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris; British Library, London; Bodleian Library, Oxford; Cambridge University Library; Biblioteca Vaticana, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele, Rome; Biblioteca Laurentiana, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence; Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan; Biblioteca Marciana, Venice; Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels; Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid; Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon; Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague; Kongelige Bibliothek, Copenhagen; Gosudarstvennaya Publichnaya Biblioteka, Leningrad; Staatsbibliothek, Berlin; National Library, Athens; Metropolitan Library, Beijing, Library of the Imperial Cabinet, Tokyo; Biblioteca Nacional, Mexico City; Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro; Library of Congress, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.; Widener Library, Harvard University; Columbia University Library, New YOrk Public Library, Morgan Library, New YOrk; Boston Public Library; Cleveland Public Library; Harper Library, University of Chicago; Huntington Library, Pasadena, Calif.; Sterling Library, Yale University; University of California Libraries; Hoover War Library, Stanford University.

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

book depository, institution, reference center, athenaeum, atheneum, bibliotheca, book collection, media center, lending library. ''The true university.''—Thomas Carlyle. ''The ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.''—Longfellow. ''The diary of the human race.''—George Dawson. see book