"It remains a library, for the first time a reference library available to everyone, " said Ms Taverne.

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When the reference library is presented, the user is given the option to download a dictionary-that download may not begin.

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But the council said if the closures were approved areas would not lose community resources, and Birkenhead Library would be incorporated into plans for a reference library in the town centre.

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What is more surprising, perhaps, is how few books are borrowed from the Commons library (although it is more of a reference than a lending library).

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On Tuesday, he said he saw two gunmen looking at the plaque outside his house: It reads "Biblioteque de Manuscripts, " or manuscript library, a reference to his grandfather's parchment collection.

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Since I write a fair amount on wines and spirits, and especially whiskies, I have amassed a decent library of books on these subjects for reference.

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Private-equity executive David Rubenstein gave the first known map of the U.S. made after the Revolution to the Library of Congress and not the National Archives, as was incorrectly implied in one reference in a U.S. News article on Monday about Mr. Rubenstein's purchases of historical papers.

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This is high season for the library, which was established in 1934 with the express aim of assembling a trove of reference books "treating all recognized breeds and everything in which the dog is concerned, " in the words of the library's founders.

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Rejecting Sinan's box-and-dome formula, their mosque and its adjoining library the former roofed by a shallow, stepped pyramid has been built almost without reference to the classical mosque type.

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