special library

American  

noun

1. a library maintained by an organization, as a business, association, or government agency, to collect materials and provide information of special relevance to the work of the organization.

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Example Sentences

The archdiocese has said the document disclosure to a special library archive at the University of New Mexico will be unprecedented.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2022

Beginning with the 2009 novel "The Magicians," Lev Grossman's books about Quentin Coldwater, young American magician, have been easy to recognize as fitting onto a shelf of that special library alongside their clearest influences: C.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2014

Soul Train has a really unique and special library.

From Inc • Mar. 18, 2011

In Berlin, in fact, a special library committee was hastily organized to comb through the masses of literature brought in by enthusiastic Nazis for irreplaceable volumes, rare editions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Provide also for joint establishment and maintenance, for aiding a free library with public money, and for contract with some existing library for general or special library privileges.

From A Library Primer by Dana, John Cotton