Two MPs found themselves locked in the House of Commons Library on Wednesday, having stayed there working late.

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The Chicago Public Library system found that 60 percent of the people using the Internet in their branches were applying for or seeking information about jobs.

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After library officials found the notebook, in which Bland had stuck four 200-year-old maps, the FBI started pursuing the map thief in earnest.

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In the summer of 1983, Mr Dodge, who was once arrested for cutting down telephone poles, was reading in a Maine library when he found an 1825 copy of the Constitution.

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At the request of the provost he taught a class in ancient Greek literature in translation, sympathizing with students who found Thucydides impenetrable: The Modern Library edition has one map of the entire Hellenic world, with 180 labels on it.

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In 1945, an Italian musicologist found four bars of a sonata's bass line in the remnants of the firebombed Dresden Music Library.

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