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some libraries offer creation stations for makers which offer access to a 3D printing station with a 3D scanner. Libraries can vary widely in size and may...

In library and information science, cataloging (US) or cataloguing (UK) is the process of creating metadata representing information resources, such as...

preservation, and environmental monitoring. Libraries have existed for many centuries but library science is a more recent phenomenon, as early libraries were...

access to the contents of Z-Library and other shadow libraries. Many other workarounds to the recent attempts to take down Z-Library have been reported. Some...

of the library without having to implement it itself. Libraries encourage software reuse in a modular fashion. Libraries can use other libraries resulting...

Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) is the master's degree that combines two interdisciplinary academic disciplines. Library science is applied...

such as PDFs of content from Elsevier's ScienceDirect web-portal. Publishers like Elsevier have accused Library Genesis of internet piracy. Others assert...

sponsorship. Computerization and digitization arose from the 1960s, and changed many aspects of libraries. The first libraries consisted of archives of the...

Shadow libraries (also pirate libraries or black open access) are online repositories of freely available digital media that are normally paywalled, access-controlled...

The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. The library was part...

of and topical guide to library and information science: Library and information science (LIS) is the scientific study of issues related to libraries and...

The first law of library science, "Books are for use," constitutes the basis for library services. This law means that books in libraries are not meant to...

This is a timeline of women in library science throughout the world. 1796: Cecilia Cleve became the first female librarian in Sweden. 1852: The first...

describe the broader categories of three-dimensional objects in libraries. Most libraries usually have a well written, legally tight acquisitions policy...

A library technician is a library and information professional in charge of the day-to-day functions of a library and assisting libraries in the acquisition...

Being officially part of the Bodleian Libraries, the library holds the Legal Deposit material for the sciences and is thus entitled to receive a copy of...

group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations. A catalog for a group of libraries is also called a union catalog. A bibliographic...

idea of public libraries open to all people regardless of their ability to pay for access to the collection. One of the most famous libraries that Naudé helped...

Library is the network of libraries and services at Harvard University, a private Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard Library is...

National and state libraries U.S. state libraries Closed-stack libraries Digital library projects Ancient libraries Destroyed libraries Libraries damaged...