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1 In addition to providing materials, libraries also provide the services of ________ who are experts at finding and organizing information and at interpreting information needs, such as books on drugs.

2 In the Early Middle Ages, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and before the rise of the large Western ________ monastery libraries beginning at Montecassino, libraries were found in scattered places in the Christian Middle East.

3 This wall system was first introduced on a large scale in Spain's ________.

4 and those at ________ about 700 B.C.

5 Archaeological findings from the ancient city-states of ________ have revealed temple rooms full of clay tablets in cuneiform script.

6 In the sixth century, at the very close of the Classical period, the great libraries of the Mediterranean world remained those of ________ and Alexandria.

7 What does the following picture show?  The Malatestiana Library (Italian: Biblioteca Malatestiana), in Cesena, is the first European civic library.[16]   Inscription regarding Tiberius Claudius Balbilus of Rome (d. c. AD 79), which confirms that the Library of Alexandria must have existed in some form in the first century.[citation needed]   School library.   Bangalore Central Library is designated as the State Central Reference Library and is open to the public only for consultation of documents within its premises

8 [11] Some mosques sponsored ________.

9 Private or personal libraries made up of non-fiction and fiction books (as opposed to the state or institutional records kept in archives) appeared in ________ in the 5th century BC.

10 Reference may be further broken down by user groups or materials; common collections are children's literature, young adult literature, and ________ materials.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue caused so many cancellations that Sports Illustrated and its publisher Time Warner had to stop delivery to certain subscribers, such as libraries?
  • the Embassy Gulf Service Station in Washington, D.C. was designed to be reminiscent of banks and libraries?
  • the Welsh library educator Peter Havard-Williams served as Chief Librarian to the Council of Europe?
  • the Mezhyhirskyi Monastery (pictured) in Ukraine, mentioned in Nikolai Gogol’s novel Taras Bulba, is thought to have included the lost library of Yaroslav the Wise?
  • the New Jersey Library Association, the oldest library organization in New Jersey, began in 1890 with 39 members and currently has over 1,600?
  • the twenty-six tons of books and artifacts from Dr. Robert Bell's private library were almost destroyed in an Ottawa fire?
  • the Woodland Public Library is the oldest, and one of the last functioning Carnegie-funded libraries in California?
  • the library in Michigan's Calumet and Hecla Industrial District originally housed public baths in its basement?
  • the Church of Scientology attempted to ban the non-fiction book Scientology: The Now Religion in Canadian libraries during 1974?
  • Ethelbert of York's 8th century library was probably the largest book collection of its day outside of Rome?
  • Choa Chu Kang Community Library was the first library in Singapore to install self-check machines for borrowing and returning of books?
  • Robert Walpole, father of England's first Prime Minister, holds the record for the longest overdue library book at 288 years?
  • Escape from Paradise, a book which documents a Singaporean woman's divorce, was removed from bookstores and libraries in the country in 2002, even after it had been reviewed in the Singapore press?
  • besides a mobile library, the Mobile Public Library also operates a system of libraries with eight branches and a local history and genealogy division with permanent addresses in Alabama?
  • American art historian Charles Rufus Morey published a pamphlet on library planning called "Laboratory-Library"?
  • Polish bishop Józef Andrzej Załuski, founded Załuski Library, one of the largest 18th century European libraries?
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