What is a library? Source Wikipedia.
A library is a collection of sources of information and similar resources, made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing. [1] It provides physical or digital access to material, and may be a physical building or room, or a virtual space, or both. [2] A library's collection can include books , periodicals , newspapers , manuscripts , films , maps , prints , documents , microform , CDs , cassettes , videotapes , DVDs , Blu-ray Discs , e-books , audiobooks , databases , and other formats. Libraries range in size from a few shelves of books to several million items. In Latin and Greek, the idea of bookcase is represented by Bibliotheca and Bibliothēkē (Greek: βιβλιοθήκη): derivatives of these mean library in many modern languages, e.g. French bibliothèque . The first libraries consisted of ...