national library

noun

1. a library established and funded by a national government with the designation national, to serve the needs of this government, often to function as a library of record for the nation's publishing output, and in some cases to act as a central agency for library and bibliographic development in the nation.

Example Sentences

Hoping to find more tangible vestiges of Shelley’s connections to Scotland, we went to the National Library, which houses 106 versions of her book, originally published anonymously, plus an 1818 letter from Shelley to her Scottish contemporary Sir Walter Scott.

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Nearly 50% of retirees follow a nontraditional retirement path that involves unretirement or partial retirement, and at least 26% of those who retire later go back to work, according to published research in the National Library of Medicine.

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And one-fifth of an individual’s life, on average, is now expected to be lived in a state of illness, according to a study in the National Library of Medicine.

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According to a study conducted by the National Library of Medicine, 'a causal relationship has not yet been established', to whether a menstrual cycle is related to injuries.

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Thirteen were arrested after they climbed on the roof of the National Library and displayed a banner that said: "You have abandoned and also killed."

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