special library

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.

Example Sentences

He always has a special library on some particular subject, with the books all annotated.

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As planned at first, three special library editions were all to be bound in England and imported for libraries by the publishers.

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In one respect it encourages making the library a special library, namely, on local interests and history.

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One interesting special library is circulated in Massachusetts and Rhode Island in behalf of the anti-tuberculosis movement.

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There are his books, and among these a special library of the Latin writers of the Decadence.

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