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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Library.
See also changes related to Library, or pages that link to Library or to this page or whose text contains "Library".

Parent topics

  • Paper [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Paper (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
  • Book [r]: A bound set of sheets containing written or printed materials, or space for such. [e]
  • Publishing [r]: The process of production and dissemination of literature or information - the activity of making information available for public view. [e]
  • Reading [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Reading (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
  • Library science [r]: The study of issues related to libraries and the information fields. [e]
  • Culture (social) [r]: UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (2002) defined culture as "... the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of a society or a social group..." that "encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs". [e]

Subtopics

  • Five laws of library science [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Dewey Decimal Classification [r]: System for library classification created by Melvil Dewey based on decimal numbering. [e]
  • Librarian [r]: A person who is responsible for a collection of books, magazines, records, specialized or technical information, or materials, which are stored for use. [e]
  • British Library [r]: National reference library and archive of the United Kingdom. [e]
  • Library of Congress [r]: The world's largest library, which has a division that provides research for the U.S. Congress; although the United States has no official library, the Library of Congress has the role in practice, especially as a cataloging authority and containing the Copyright Office [e]
  • Bookmobile [r]: A bus containing bookshelves and workstations which acts as a mobile branch library. [e]
  • Digital library [r]: A library in which collections are stored in digital formats (as opposed to print, microform, or other media) and accessible by computers. [e]
  • Open access [r]: The free, immediate online access to the results of research, coupled with the right to use those results in new and innovative ways. [e]
  • Orphan works [r]: A term used to describe the situation where a copyright owner cannot be identified and/or located by someone who is seeking permission to use the work. [e]

Other related topics

  • World Wide Web [r]: A global collection of information presented in the form of documents hosted on networked computers and available to the public. [e]
  • International Standard Serial Number‎ [r]: A unique eight-digit number system used to identify a print or electronic periodical publication, adopted as international standard ISO 3297 in 1975. [e]
  • ISBN [r]: Ten-digit number assigned before publication to a book or edition thereof, which identifies various elements of the work, grouping it within a national, geographic, language, or other convenient category and revealing its publisher, title, edition, and volume number. [e]
  • OCLC [r]: A nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization, founded in 1967 as the Ohio College Library Center. [e]
  • TooLAME [r]: A popular, fast, high quality, free and open source MPEG-1 Audio Layer II encoder. [e]

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