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A library is a collection of sources, resources, and services, and the structure in which it is housed; it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. In the more traditional sense, a library is a collection of books. It can mean the collection, the building or room that houses such a collection, or both. The term "library" has itself acquired a secondary meaning: "a collection of useful material for common use." This sense is used in fields such as

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Potter County library faced protests over gay documentary ...

A planned screening of an award-winning documentary about growing up gay in rural Pennsylvania stirs up controversy in Coudersport.

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Electronic Home Library (1959)

Over at Paleo-Future Blog, Matt Novak documents the future that never was. Here, Novak takes a look at an electronic library from Arthur Radebaugh's whimsical futurist cartoonist strip, Closer Than We Think.

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Drugs in Perspective « Awful Library Books

Drugs in Perspective: a fact book on drug use and misuse. Smithsonian Institution 1972. Submitter: This one is not as bad as it looks on first glance. The disco party cover is quite appropriate for the subject matter and the 1972 ...

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Week in Review: Mobile Library Sites and Info Resources ...

Week in Review: Mobile Library Sites and Info Resources. + Two Articles on the Combination of the Mobile Web and Social Networking (7/25). + Mobile Web: Florida Center for Library Automation Testing Mobile Interface (7/26) ...

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Library of Congress: 2007 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive

Most of the photos on this site were extracted from reference images (high-resolution tiffs, 20 to 200 megabytes in size) from the Library of Congress research archive. (To query the database click here.) Many were digitized by LOC ...

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Renovated Ferndale library to open after more than a year - Daily ...

The Ferndale Public Library building is opening Monday for the first time since it closed for a multimillion-dollar renovation in March 2009. Library Director Doug Raber says the library is nearly unrecognizable from what it was and has ...

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Preview of MSDN Library Changes: ASP Alliance

In this article, Scott provides a layout of the proposed changes to the MSDN Library in detail. He examines the new features of the library with the help of screen shots in addition to a survey link which you can use to provide your ...

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as3corelib Library moved to GitHub at Mike Chambers

I have just moved the as3corelib library over to GitHub (at the urging of Darron Schall). This should make the project a little easier to manage, and in particular, make it easier for developers to contribute patches, and for me to ...

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Mr Bean - Library

Mr Bean at the Library.

funny library comercial

A commercial i made for OC library!

Sesame Street: Cookie Monster In The Library

For more videos and games check out our new website at www.sesamestreet.org In this video, Cookie tries to get cookies at the library. Sesame Street is a production of Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization which also produces Pinky Dinky Doo, The Electric Company, and other programs for children around the world.

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Library Dominoes

An impromptu and unconventional domino line at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's ACES Library. As a conceptual art project, it pokes fun at and criticizes the monotony and strictness of institutions and libraries. It's all real - no tricks here! The textbooks were set up in one domino line, but filmed in four takes. After I finished the last take, 4 hours into the project, the librarian finally came up to investigate the ruckus. She waved her finger and gave me the boot, not even letting me help pick up the books. Lucky for her I had kept all the books in their shelved order - easy cleanup!

The Wizard of Oz - a Tale of Library Circulation

Originally presented at the 2007 ALA Conference in Washington DC. A simple tale about library circulation. Presented by Salt Lake County Library. Created for Salt Lake County Library. Executive Producer - Jim Cooper; Producer / Writer- Greg Near; Director - Ernest Q. Bourne; Camera - Adam Hill; Key Grip - Brent Roberts; Dorothy - Telesa Rountree; Librarian - Beverly Dusserre; Witch - Darlene Dineen; Scarecrow / Tinman - Karl Gilchrist; Lion - Alexis Alires; Extras - Jamie Jensen, Rosemary Healy, Angie Rawlings.

Blonde @ library

Funny Blonde ordering at library

Library on a Donkey

Humanwire correspondent Valentina Canavesio reports on Luis Soriano Bohorquez who created the Biblioburro, or Library Donkey, in an effort to bring books and the gift of reading to the children in his community of La Gloria, Colombia. To learn more about Luis' Biblioburro and to donate to his cause, please visit www.ayokaproductions.org