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A library is a collection of resources and services housed in a structure, organized for use and maintained by a public or private entity. Traditionally, libraries house books but now provide access to materials in many formats through physical and electronic means. Libraries offer materials for common use that individuals may not be able to access or afford themselves, and provide assistance from librarians in navigating vast amounts of information.

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Collection Books: Catholic Theology. Libraries Most Often Provide A Place of

A library is a collection of resources and services housed in a structure, organized for use and maintained by a public or private entity. Traditionally, libraries house books but now provide access to materials in many formats through physical and electronic means. Libraries offer materials for common use that individuals may not be able to access or afford themselves, and provide assistance from librarians in navigating vast amounts of information.

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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 computer science, mathematics, statistics, electronics and biology.
It can also be used by publishers in naming series of related books, e.g. The Library of Anglo-
Catholic Theology. Libraries most often provide a place of silence for studying.

Public and institutional collections and services may be intended for use by people who choose
not to — or cannot afford to — purchase an extensive collection themselves, who need material
no individual can reasonably be expected to have, or who require professional assistance with
their research. In addition to providing materials, libraries also provide the services of librarians
who are experts at finding and organizing information and at interpreting information needs.

Today's libraries are repositories and access points for print, audio, and visual materials in
numerous formats, including maps, prints, documents, microform (microfilm/microfiche), audio
tapes, CDs, cassettes, videotapes, DVDs, video games, e-books, e-audiobooks and many other
electronic resources. Libraries often provide public facilities to access to their electronic
resources and the Internet.

Thus, modern libraries are increasingly being redefined as places to get unrestricted access to
information in many formats and from many sources. They are extending services beyond the
physical walls of a building, by providing material accessible by electronic means, and by
providing the assistance of librarians in navigating and analyzing tremendous amounts of
information with a variety of digital tools.

A library classification is a system of coding and organizing library materials (books, serials, audiovisual
materials, computer files, maps, manuscripts, realia) according to their subject and allocating a call
number to that information resource. Similar to classification systems used in biology, bibliographic
classification systems group entities together that are similar, typically arranged in a hierarchical tree
structure. A different kind of classification system, called a faceted classification system, is also widely
used which allows the assignment of multiple classifications to an object, enabling the classifications to
be ordered in multiple ways.

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