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It houses the county museum and the Hurd Library, a collection of 5, 000 volumes dating from 1476.
They also launched the Giving Library, a collection of videos featuring more than 250 charities, to help other philanthropists learn about non profits.
To match that, Sony has partnered with OverDrive, a distributor of e-books to libraries, to offer its customers easy access to the local library's collection of e-books.
The college became known instead for its Bunting Institute for female scholars, artists and archivists, and for the Schlesinger Library, whose collection is devoted exclusively to American women's history.
He mostly kept them in boxes, until the father of three moved into a new home a few years ago, and asked the architect to build a library for his collection.
The library's entire collection of printed books has been estimated to total about 10 terabytes of data (although staff at the library suspect it's probably more).
Water-damaged pieces of the library's historic collection were moved to Oxford by a team of salvage experts following the fire on 26 April.
During World War II, Lambeth Palace's Great Hall - which housed much of the library's early collection - took a direct hit from an incendiary bomb.
With volunteers, the money will be enough to keep the library a collection of some 4, 500 hundred books crammed into a former garage open for two hours a day, three days a week.
Greg Budney, audio curator at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library, a renowned collection of recorded bird song, says he has had requests to use the collection for medical purposes but hasn't heard of bird song being used to fight crime.
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"The Packard Campus and its employees will work hard to protect the Library's comprehensive collection and make these recordings accessible to the American people and this generous contribution by Universal Music will help preserve our nation's rich cultural heritage, " said Congressman Eric Cantor, Majority Leader for the 112thCongress and U.S. Representative from the 7thDistrict of Virginia, which includes Culpeper.
Ten terabytes of space would hold the printed collection of the Library of Congress.
It feels a lot like figuring out what Library of Congress number a collection of books should have.
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The Moynihan papers are the largest one-man collection in the Library of Congress ten thousand pages, enough to lay a paper trail from the White House to the Capitol.
Every day banks and brokerages send and receive terabytes of data relating to the transfer of money, the rough equivalent of the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress.
"Twitter is a new kind of collection for the Library of Congress but an important one to its mission, " Gayle Osterberg, the library's director of communications, wrote in a blog post.
Juniper Books' collection-development service attracts people who want a library but haven't had the time or inclination to amass a collection of books.
The Library will stream recordings from the collection on a website to be launched in the spring.
Those removed will go to a climate-controlled storage facility in Princeton, where the library already houses half its research collection.
Mr Davies said when completed the new library would have an "excellent collection of books, electronic resources", information technology, WiFI access and learning and meeting rooms.
In 2005, Microsoft announced that it would spend two and a half million dollars to scan a hundred thousand out-of-copyright books in the collection of the British Library.
The major Fleming collection held by the Lilly Library at Indiana University does not even include an autographed manuscript or typescript of Chitty, auction house Sotheby's said.
It is essential that NTIS' basic functions and services continue whether it is at NTIS or another government organization, said Caroline Long, associate university librarian for collection services at the Gelman Library at George Washington University.
Using the newspaper collection at the AK Bell Library in Perth and the series of trial papers held at the National Archives of Scotland's West Register House, Mr Paton says that what he discovered was a "sorry picture of an investigation that was simply incapable of bringing the perpetrator to justice".
In fact, the ACFE carries this book in its library, the only fiction book in the collection.
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Commerce's proposal includes transferring NTIS' paper, microfiche and digital collection and bibliographic database to the Library of Congress.
Scholars are astounded by the depth and scope of the collection, whichis housed in a library attached to Aunt Mary's New Jersey home.
Another option is to check at your local library, because they often have a good collection of videos you can rent for free.
At the beginning of the 17th Century, the Palatinate Library in Heidelberg became the largest and most important collection of books and manuscripts north of the Alps.
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