A library provided essentially as a public service rather than as a commercial venture.

A library housed in a large van that provides a library service to those unable to attend their nearest local library.

A high-ranking library clerk, second only to a librarian.

An interdisciplinary science incorporating the humanities, law and applied science to study topics related to libraries, the collection, organization, preservation and dissemination of information resources, and the political economy of information.

A register of all bibliographic items found in a particular library or group of libraries, such as those belonging to a university system spread out over several geographic locations.

A fictitious vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format, including books resulting from random concatenation of letters, spaces and punctuation marks.

A particular handwriting style.

plural of library assistant

A gluelike adhesive made from a mixture of water and flour (or starch), used to bind paper or paperboard.

A library in which collections are stored in digital formats (as opposed to print, microform, or other media) and accessible by computers; a type of information retrieval system.