Libraries
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
Andrew CarnegiePublic libraries , American Libraries online - Love libraries - high density storage
Book classification systems, What's OCLC? - OCLC holdings rank (2005) - The Open Archives Initiative
Library of Congress Classification System - Catalog your books online - The Open Library
Library Web - access to catalogs - What is WorldCat? - Frederick G. Kilgour
IFLA, American library association (ALA), Melvil Dewey - origins of librarianship
The Research Library Group - Complete open access catalog
Map libraries - Open access at wikipedia - Open access news
Legal deposit libraries act of 2003 (UK) - MARC standards
America's Great libraries
Library of Congress - History - Thomas Jefferson's library
New York Public Library, Harvard libraries, Yale Library
Huntington library, Americas largest libraries
Important world libraries
British Library - London - manuscripts online - King's Library
Bibliotheque Nationale de France - Paris at wikipedia
Bibliotheca Alexandrina - controversies, original library - at wikipedia
The Vatican Library (at wikipedia) - The European Library at wikipedia
List of national libraries
