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Library classification
Library classification: systems like Dewey Decimal (DDC, 1876, 10 classes) and Library of Congress Classification (LCC, 1897, 21 letter classes) that arrange library materials by subject via call numbers; DDC edited at LC, owned by OCLC.
Library Genesis
Library Genesis (LibGen) is a shadow library offering pirated scholarly books and articles free, started by Russian scientists around 2008 and holding over 81 million papers by 2025.
Library History Round Table
Library History Round Table (LHRT), ALA round table founded 1947 as the American Library History Round Table by Louis Shores and Wayne Shirley; supports library history research, awards, and the quinquennial Library History Seminar.
Library of Alexandria
Library of Alexandria (Bibliotheca Alexandrina): the great Ptolemaic royal library and Mouseion of Hellenistic Egypt, holding tens to hundreds of thousands of papyrus scrolls. Damaged, not destroyed, by Caesar's 48 BCE fire; it declined through war and neglect centuries before the legendary Omar burning.
Library of America
Library of America is a New York-based nonprofit publisher, founded in 1979, producing authoritative editions of American writing from novels and poetry to speeches and crime fiction.
Library of Ashurbanipal
The Library of Ashurbanipal, also called the Royal Library of Nineveh, was the 7th-century BCE cuneiform tablet collection of Assyria's last great king; over 30,000 texts found at Kuyunjik include the fullest Epic of Gilgamesh.
Library of Celsus
The Library of Celsus, also known as the Celsus Library, is a Roman building at Ephesus, Turkey, that combined a public library with the tomb of senator Celsus.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress, founded April 24, 1800 under President John Adams, is the world's largest library, the U.S. Congress's main research arm, and home of the U.S. Copyright Office, holding over 164 million items on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress Classification
Library of Congress Classification (LCC): alphanumeric library classification system with 21 lettered main classes (A General Works to Z Library Science), developed late 19th-early 20th century for the Library of Congress and widely used by US academic libraries, distinct from numeric Dewey.
Library of Congress Control Number
The Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) is a unique number the Library of Congress assigns to each book's catalog record, first issued in 1898 as the Library of Congress Card Number.
Library of Hadrian at Athens
Library of Hadrian at Athens (Βιβλιοθήκη του Αδριανού): monumental rectangular complex built by Emperor Hadrian around AD 132 near the Roman Agora, with library, reading rooms, lecture halls, and garden; damaged in AD 267, later a church and mosque.
Library of History
The Library of History (Greek Βιβλιοθήκη ἱστορική, Latin Bibliotheca historica) is a forty-book universal history by Diodorus Siculus, covering mythic times to the age of Caesar.
Library of Pergamum
Library of Pergamum (Pergamon), royal Attalid library founded by Eumenes II (r. 197-159 BCE) beside the Temple of Athena in Asia Minor; rival of Alexandria, said to hold 200,000 scrolls, linked to parchment production and Crates of Mallos.
Library of Ruina
Library of Ruina is a 2021 turn-based deckbuilding RPG by ProjectMoon, sequel to Lobotomy Corporation, where librarians fight invited guests in card-and-dice receptions and defeated guests become books.
Library of Souls
Library of Souls (2015) is the third novel in Ransom Riggs's Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series, published by Quirk Books. Jacob Portman enters Devil's Acre and the soul-jar repository called the Library of Souls, or Abaton, to rescue captured ymbrynes from Caul.
Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences (BAN, Библиотека Российской академии наук), Saint Petersburg research library founded by Peter I in 1714 with the Kunstkamera; first director Robert Erskine; over 20.5 million items in the central fund; major 1988 fire; heads the RAS Saint Petersburg library network.
Library of the temple of Edfu
The library of the temple of Edfu is a wall-inscribed catalog of the Ptolemaic temple's papyrus books, the only surviving House of Books chamber in ancient Egypt.
Library of Trinity College Dublin
Library of Trinity College Dublin (Leabharlann Choláiste na Tríonóide), Ireland's largest library, founded 1592; legal deposit since 1801; over 6 million volumes; home of the Book of Kells in the 1732 Old Library and its 65-meter Long Room, now undergoing the Old Library Redevelopment Project.
Library preparation (sequencing)
Library preparation, also called a library preparation protocol, is the molecular biology step that converts DNA or RNA into sequencing-ready fragment libraries by fragmenting, end-repairing, and ligating adapters.
Library synthesis (chemistry)
Library synthesis is a set of chemistry methods for making large collections of structurally related compounds, as equimolar mixtures or discrete arrays, for screening many candidates at once.
Library Wars (図書館戦争)
Library Wars (図書館戦争, Toshokan Sensō) is Hiro Arikawa's 2006 light novel series about Japan's Library Defense Force fighting state censorship under the Media Betterment Act, adapted as manga, 2008 anime, 2012 anime film, and 2013 and 2015 live-action films.
Libration point orbit insertion and maneuver design
Libration point orbit insertion and maneuver design covers the burns that place a spacecraft onto an orbit around the Sun-Earth or Earth-Moon L1 or L2 points.
Libration point station-keeping
Libration point station-keeping is the regular propulsive corrections that keep a spacecraft near an unstable Lagrange point, since uncontrolled craft drift away within weeks or months.
LIBREAST study
LIBREAST study (NCT04817813), European retrospective multicenter cohort of 100 women operated for breast cancer liver metastases 2010-2015; 5-year overall survival 60%, disease-free survival 29%, median survival 7 years after liver surgery.
LibreOffice
LibreOffice, also known as BrOffice.org, is a free and open source office suite developed by The Document Foundation as the successor to OpenOffice.org, running on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
LibrePilot
LibrePilot is an open-source autopilot project for drones, model aircraft, and robots, founded in July 2015 as a continuation of OpenPilot and released under GPLv3.
Libretto
Libretto (Italian, "little book") is the text of an opera, operetta, or oratorio, the words as opposed to the music. Covers its origins with Rinuccini and Peri, Metastasio, the 19th-century shift toward composer dominance, and printed and translated forms.
LIBRETTO-001 trial
LIBRETTO-001 (NCT03157128) is the pivotal phase I/II single-arm trial of selpercatinib (LOXO-292, Retevmo) in RET-altered cancers; it supported FDA approval in RET fusion-positive NSCLC, with ORR 84% treatment-naive and 61% pretreated.
Libreville
Libreville, capital of Gabon, founded 1849 by freed slaves from the Brazilian slave ship L'Elizia; grew along the estuary road network, now holds about 967,000 people, roughly half the country.
Libris Literatuur Prijs
The Libris Literatuur Prijs is an annual Dutch literary prize, one of the principal awards in the Dutch-language area, given for the best original novel of the previous year.