special library

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noun

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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How to use special library in a sentence

He always has a special library on some particular subject, with the books all annotated.
Essays on Modern Novelists|William Lyon Phelps
As planned at first, three special library editions were all to be bound in England and imported for libraries by the publishers.
Papers and Proceedings of the Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the American Library Association Held at Ottawa, Canada June 26-July 2, 1912|Various
In one respect it encourages making the library a special library, namely, on local interests and history.
The Library and Society|Various
One interesting special library is circulated in Massachusetts and Rhode Island in behalf of the anti-tuberculosis movement.
What eight million women want|Rheta Childe Dorr

There are his books, and among these a special library of the Latin writers of the Decadence.
Figures of Several Centuries|Arthur Symons