Facts about Library

Library instruction, which advocates education for library users, has been practiced in the U.S. since the nineteenth century.

is believed to have been the first to establish a library classification system and the first book notation system.

Among the first ones was a royal library in Isfahan.

The surviving 4,000-5,000 Jews were enclosed in the small ghetto, while 20,000 Jews who had been brought to Riga from Germany, Bohemia, Moravia and Austria were put into the big ghetto.

At this time the library catalog was written on scrolls of fine silk and stored in silk bags.

A library is a collection of information, sources, resources and services, organized for use, and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual.

Medieval library design reflected the fact that these manuscripts—created via the labor-intensive process of hand copying—were valuable possessions.

Many communities are closing down or reducing the capability of their library systems, at the same time balancing their budgets.

The library still exists and can justifiably claim to be the forerunner of later public library systems.

Another ancient library from this period which is still operational and expanding is the Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi in the Iranian city of Mashhad, which has been operating for more than six centuries.

Libraries have materials arranged in a specified order according to a library classification system, so that items may be located quickly and collections may be browsed efficiently.

Three noteworthy examples are the U.S. Library of Congress, Canada's Library and Archives Canada, and the British Library.

The resulting conglomerate libraries are the basis of every modern library today.

The basic form of library instruction is generally known as information literacy.

Library architecture developed in response to the need for security.

The term mackerel is also applied to all members of the Scrombidae family, which is sometimes known as the mackerel family.

Most of the large Roman baths were also cultural centers, built from the start with a library, with the usual two room arrangement for Greek and Latin texts.

A Public Agenda survey in 2006 reported 84 percent of the public said maintaining free library services should be a top priority for their local library.

One of the curators of the imperial library in the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.E.