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library a collection of books or other written or printed materials, as well as the facility in which they are housed and the institution that is responsible for their maintenance. Modern libraries may contain a wide range of materials, including manuscripts and pamphlets, posters, photographs, motion pictures, and videotapes, sound recordings, and computer databases in various forms.
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"library." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "library." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-library.html "library." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-library.html |
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Library The Supreme Court Library has evolved into a significant collection of materials capable of supporting the most sophisticated legal research. The library was created by a congressional act of 1832, providing that law books in the Library of Congress be separated from other works and that a law library be established for the Supreme Court justices. This statute also gave the justices power to promulgate rules for the use of the library. In 1832 the library contained 2,011 volumes.
The Supreme Court's librarian, Henry Deforest Clarke, was appointed in March 1887. A century later, the current librarian administers an institution that contains half a million volumes and has access to databases and other modern library technology. The library's collections are similar to those of a large law school library, including comprehensive coverage of the primary legal materials of the United States and each of the fifty states. The librarian, who is appointed by the chief justice, has the authority to choose assistants and to acquire such books, pamphlets, periodicals, and microfilm as required by the Court for its use and for the needs of its bar. The library is open to the personnel of the Court, members of the bar of the Court, members of Congress, and attorneys of the federal government. The collection is noncirculating, except to justices and members of their legal staffs. The present library facility dates from 1935, when the Court first occupied a building of its own. The main collection is located on the third floor of the Supreme Court Building. The librarian is also responsible for a separate second‐floor library used by the justices, the collections of material and databases located in justices' chambers, and a 15,000‐square‐foot library located nearby in the Thurgood Marshall Building. The third‐floor library consists of two rooms; the reading room contains the online catalog and circulation and reference areas. This is where the library houses its primary collections. The other room is the records and briefs room. It houses the most complete collection of the Court's records and briefs from 1832 (when written briefs were first required) to the present. Roy M. Mersky |
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KERMIT L. HALL. "Library." The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. KERMIT L. HALL. "Library." The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O184-Library.html KERMIT L. HALL. "Library." The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. 2005. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O184-Library.html |
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li·brar·y / ˈlīˌbrerē; -brərē/ • n. (pl. -brar·ies) a building or room containing collections of books, periodicals, and sometimes films and recorded music for people to read, borrow, or refer to: a school library [as adj.] a library book. ∎ a collection of books and periodicals held in such a building or room: the Institute houses an outstanding library of 35,000 volumes on the fine arts. ∎ a collection of films, recorded music, genetic material, etc., organized systematically and kept for research or borrowing: a record library. ∎ a series of books, recordings, etc., issued by the same company and similar in appearance. ∎ a room in a private house where books are kept. ∎ (also software library) Comput. a collection of programs and software packages made generally available, often loaded and stored on disk for immediate use. |
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"library." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "library." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-library.html "library." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-library.html |
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T. F. HOAD. "library." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "library." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-library.html T. F. HOAD. "library." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-library.html |
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Library, a journal of bibliography and literature, published from 1889 to 1898 as the organ of the Library Association, and from 1899 to 1918 as an independent journal. In 1920 it was merged with the Transactions of the Bibliographical Society.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Library." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Library." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Library.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Library." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Library.html |
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Librarya collection of books, 1540; therefore a collection of knowledge. Examples: library of God’s law, 1703; of opinions, 1570; of reason, 1485; of my understanding, 1549. |
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"Library." Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. 1985. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Library." Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. 1985. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2505300921.html "Library." Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. 1985. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2505300921.html |
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library(gene library) A random collection of cloned (see clone) DNA fragments in a number of vectors, which ideally includes all the genetic information of that species.
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MICHAEL ALLABY. "library." A Dictionary of Ecology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MICHAEL ALLABY. "library." A Dictionary of Ecology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O14-library.html MICHAEL ALLABY. "library." A Dictionary of Ecology. 2004. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O14-library.html |
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MICHAEL ALLABY. "library." A Dictionary of Plant Sciences. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MICHAEL ALLABY. "library." A Dictionary of Plant Sciences. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O7-library.html MICHAEL ALLABY. "library." A Dictionary of Plant Sciences. 1998. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O7-library.html |
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MICHAEL ALLABY. "library." A Dictionary of Zoology. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MICHAEL ALLABY. "library." A Dictionary of Zoology. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O8-library.html MICHAEL ALLABY. "library." A Dictionary of Zoology. 1999. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O8-library.html |
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JOHN DAINTITH. "library." A Dictionary of Computing. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN DAINTITH. "library." A Dictionary of Computing. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O11-library.html JOHN DAINTITH. "library." A Dictionary of Computing. 2004. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O11-library.html |
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library •beery, bleary, cheery, dearie, dreary, Dun Laoghaire, eerie, eyrie (US aerie), Kashmiri, leery, peri, praemunire, query, smeary, teary, theory, weary
•Deirdre • incendiary • intermediary
•subsidiary
•auxiliary, ciliary, domiciliary
•apiary • topiary • farriery • furriery
•justiciary
•bestiary, vestiary
•breviary • aviary • hosiery
•diary, enquiry, expiry, fiery, friary, inquiry, miry, priory, spiry, wiry
•podiatry, psychiatry
•dowry, floury, flowery, loury, showery, towery
•brewery • jewellery (US jewelry)
•curie, de jure, fioriture, fury, houri, Jewry, jury, Manipuri, Missouri, moory, Newry, tandoori, Urey
•statuary • actuary • sanctuary
•obituary • sumptuary • voluptuary
•January • electuary • ossuary
•mortuary
•Bradbury, Cadbury
•blackberry, hackberry
•cranberry • waxberry
•Barbary, barberry
•Shaftesbury • raspberry
•bayberry, blaeberry
•Avebury • Aylesbury • Sainsbury
•bilberry, tilbury
•bribery
•corroboree, jobbery, robbery, slobbery, snobbery
•dogberry • Roddenberry • Fosbury
•strawberry • Salisbury
•crowberry, snowberry
•chokeberry
•Rosebery, Shrewsbury
•blueberry, dewberry
•Dewsbury • Bloomsbury • gooseberry
•blubbery, rubbery, shrubbery
•Sudbury • mulberry • huckleberry
•Bunbury • husbandry • loganberry
•Canterbury • Glastonbury
•Burberry, turbary
•hatchery • archery
•lechery, treachery
•stitchery, witchery
•debauchery • butchery • camaraderie
•cindery, tindery
•industry • dromedary • lapidary
•spidery • bindery • doddery
•quandary • powdery • boundary
•bouldery • embroidery
•prudery, rudery
•do-goodery • shuddery • thundery
•prebendary • legendary • secondary
•amphorae • wafery
•midwifery, periphery
•infantry • housewifery • spoofery
•puffery • sulphury (US sulfury)
•Calgary
•beggary, Gregory
•vagary
•piggery, priggery, whiggery
•brigandry • bigotry • allegory
•vinegary • category • subcategory
•hoggery, toggery
•pettifoggery • demagoguery
•roguery • sugary
•buggery, skulduggery, snuggery, thuggery
•Hungary • humbuggery
•ironmongery • lingerie • treasury
•usury • menagerie • pageantry
•Marjorie • kedgeree • gingery
•imagery • orangery • savagery
•forgery • soldiery • drudgery
•perjury, surgery
•microsurgery
•hackery, quackery, Thackeray, Zachary
•mountebankery • knick-knackery
•gimcrackery • peccary • grotesquerie
•bakery, fakery, jacquerie
•chickaree, chicory, hickory, Terpsichore, trickery
•whiskery • apothecary
•crockery, mockery, rockery
•falconry • jiggery-pokery
•cookery, crookery, rookery
•brusquerie
•puckery, succory
•cuckoldry
•calorie, gallery, Malory, salary, Valerie
•saddlery • balladry • gallantry
•kilocalorie • diablerie • chandlery
•harlotry • celery • pedlary
•exemplary
•helotry, zealotry
•nailery, raillery
•Tuileries
•ancillary, artillery, capillary, codicillary, distillery, fibrillary, fritillary, Hilary, maxillary, pillory
•mamillary • tutelary • corollary
•bardolatry, hagiolatry, iconolatry, idolatry
•cajolery, drollery
•foolery, tomfoolery
•constabulary, vocabulary
•scapulary • capitulary • formulary
•scullery • jugglery • cutlery
•chancellery • epistolary • burglary
•mammary • fragmentary
•passementerie • flimflammery
•armory, armoury, gendarmerie
•almonry
•emery, memory
•creamery • shimmery • primary
•rosemary • yeomanry
•parfumerie, perfumery
•flummery, Montgomery, mummery, summary, summery
•gossamery • customary • infirmary
•cannery, granary, tannery
•canonry
•antennary, bimillenary, millenary, venery
•tenantry • chicanery
•beanery, bicentenary, catenary, centenary, deanery, greenery, machinery, plenary, scenery, senary, septenary
•disciplinary, interdisciplinary
•hymnary • missionary
•ordinary, subordinary
•valetudinary • imaginary • millinery
•culinary • seminary • preliminary
•luminary • urinary • veterinary
•mercenary • sanguinary
•binary, finery, pinery, quinary, vinery, winery
•Connery • Conakry • ornery • joinery
•buffoonery, poltroonery, sublunary, superlunary
•gunnery, nunnery
•consuetudinary • visionary
•exclusionary • legionary • pulmonary
•coronary • reactionary • expansionary
•concessionary, confessionary, discretionary
•confectionery, insurrectionary, lectionary
•deflationary, inflationary, probationary, stationary, stationery
•expeditionary, petitionary, prohibitionary, traditionary, transitionary
•dictionary • cautionary
•ablutionary, counter-revolutionary, devolutionary, elocutionary, evolutionary, revolutionary, substitutionary
•functionary
•diversionary, reversionary
•fernery, quaternary, ternary
•peppery • extempore • weaponry
•apery, drapery, japery, napery, papery, vapoury (US vapory)
•frippery, slippery
•coppery, foppery
•popery • dupery • trumpery
•February • heraldry • knight-errantry
•arbitrary • registrary • library
•contrary • horary • supernumerary
•itinerary • honorary • funerary
•contemporary, extemporary, temporary
•literary • brasserie • chancery
•accessory, intercessory, pessary, possessory, tesserae
•dispensary, incensory, ostensory, sensory, suspensory
•tracery
•pâtisserie, rotisserie
•emissary • dimissory
•commissary, promissory
•janissary • necessary • derisory
•glossary • responsory • sorcery
•grocery • greengrocery
•delusory, illusory
•compulsory • vavasory • adversary
•anniversary, bursary, cursory, mercery, nursery
•haberdashery
•evidentiary, penitentiary, plenipotentiary, residentiary
•beneficiary, fishery, judiciary
•noshery • gaucherie • fiduciary
•luxury • tertiary
•battery, cattery, chattery, flattery, tattery
•factory, manufactory, olfactory, phylactery, refractory, satisfactory
•artery, martyry, Tartary
•mastery, plastery
•directory, ex-directory, interjectory, rectory, refectory, trajectory
•peremptory
•alimentary, complementary, complimentary, documentary, elementary, parliamentary, rudimentary, sedimentary, supplementary, testamentary
•investigatory
•adulatory, aleatory, approbatory, celebratory, clarificatory, classificatory, commendatory, congratulatory, consecratory, denigratory, elevatory, gyratory, incantatory, incubatory, intimidatory, modificatory, participatory, placatory, pulsatory, purificatory, reificatory, revelatory, rotatory
•natatory • elucidatory • castigatory
•mitigatory • justificatory
•imprecatory • equivocatory
•flagellatory • execratory • innovatory
•eatery, excretory
•glittery, jittery, skittery, twittery
•benedictory, contradictory, maledictory, valedictory, victory
•printery, splintery
•consistory, history, mystery
•presbytery
•inhibitory, prohibitory
•hereditary • auditory • budgetary
•military, paramilitary
•solitary • cemetery • limitary
•vomitory • dormitory • fumitory
•interplanetary, planetary, sanitary
•primogenitary • dignitary
•admonitory, monitory
•unitary • monetary • territory
•secretary • undersecretary
•plebiscitary • repository • baptistery
•transitory
•depositary, depository, expository, suppository
•niterie
•Godwottery, lottery, pottery, tottery
•bottomry • watery • psaltery
•coterie, notary, protonotary, rotary, votary
•upholstery
•bijouterie, charcuterie, circumlocutory
•persecutory • statutory • salutary
•executory
•contributory, retributory, tributary
•interlocutory
•buttery, fluttery
•introductory • adultery • effrontery
•perfunctory • blustery • mediatory
•retaliatory • conciliatory • expiatory
•denunciatory, renunciatory
•appreciatory, depreciatory
•initiatory, propitiatory
•dietary, proprietary
•extenuatory
•mandatary, mandatory
•predatory • sedentary • laudatory
•prefatory • offertory • negatory
•obligatory
•derogatory, interrogatory, supererogatory
•nugatory
•expurgatory, objurgatory, purgatory
•precatory
•explicatory, indicatory, vindicatory
•confiscatory, piscatory
•dedicatory • judicatory
•qualificatory • pacificatory
•supplicatory
•communicatory, excommunicatory
•masticatory • prognosticatory
•invocatory • obfuscatory
•revocatory • charlatanry
•depilatory, dilatory, oscillatory
•assimilatory • consolatory
•voluntary • emasculatory
•ejaculatory
•ambulatory, circumambulatory, perambulatory
•regulatory
•articulatory, gesticulatory
•manipulatory • copulatory
•expostulatory • circulatory
•amatory, declamatory, defamatory, exclamatory, inflammatory, proclamatory
•crematory • segmentary
•lachrymatory
•commentary, promontory
•informatory, reformatory
•momentary
•affirmatory, confirmatory
•explanatory • damnatory
•condemnatory
•cosignatory, signatory
•combinatory
•discriminatory, eliminatory, incriminatory, recriminatory
•comminatory • exterminatory
•hallucinatory • procrastinatory
•monastery • repertory
•emancipatory • anticipatory
•exculpatory, inculpatory
•declaratory, preparatory
•respiratory • perspiratory
•vibratory
•migratory, transmigratory
•exploratory, laboratory, oratory
•inauguratory • adjuratory
•corroboratory • reverberatory
•refrigeratory • compensatory
•desultory • dysentery
•exhortatory, hortatory
•salutatory • gustatory • lavatory
•inventory
•conservatory, observatory
•improvisatory
•accusatory, excusatory
•lathery
•feathery, heathery, leathery
•dithery, slithery
•carvery
•reverie, severy
•Avery, bravery, knavery, quavery, Savery, savory, savoury, slavery, wavery
•thievery
•livery, quivery, shivery
•silvery
•ivory, salivary
•ovary
•discovery, recovery
•servery • equerry • reliquary
•antiquary • cassowary • stipendiary
•colliery • pecuniary • chinoiserie
•misery • wizardry • citizenry
•advisory, provisory, revisory, supervisory
•causerie, rosary
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"library." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "library." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-library.html "library." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-library.html |
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