IU Libraries
The Learning Commons, Scholars' Commons, and Creator Commons can all be found in this central IU library.
What is the Wells Library?
This ancient library's collection was mainly made up of papyrus scrolls. Ships arriving to the city were searched, and then texts were copied for their owners, while the originals stayed behind in the Library’s collection.
What is the Library of Alexandria?
This 10-letter word means "library" in at least three Romance languages, including Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
What is biblioteca?
For the past 150 years, this organization has empowered and advocated for libraries and library workers in North America to ensure equitable access to information for all.
What is the American Library Association (ALA)?
This famed American science fiction author's "Memorial Library" is located in Indianapolis, the city in which he was born in 1922.
Who is Kurt Vonnegut?
The Lilly Library has one of the few surviving copies of this important religious text.
What is the Gutenberg Bible?
This numeric system that many librarians use to shelve and categorize books by type was first published in 1876 and named after its inventor.
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
The Bodleian Library is the main research library of this famous university. There is evidence of teaching at this university as early as 1096.
What is Oxford University?
The New York Public Library received tens of thousands of overdue books and other items in 2021 after eliminating this.
What are late fees?
The New York Public Library's permanent collection includes a stuffed bear, elephant, kangaroo, and tiger that once belonged to the son of this English author.
Who is A. A. Milne (author of Winnie the Pooh)?
This archive is host to over 130,000 items spanning over 100 years of media production, as well as a state-of-the-art screening room.
What is the Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive (IULMIA).
The Library Company of Philadelphia, founded in 1731, was the first public library in the United States. It was created by this notable Founding Father.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The Imagination Library is a free children's book gifting program started by this famous singer in 1995.
Who is Dolly Parton?
This US state saw the most attempts to restrict access to books in 2022.
What is Texas? (Statistic from the American Library Association.)
Released by author Susan Orlean in 2018, The Library Book is a nonfiction account of a catastrophic fire that occurred in April 1986 in the public library of this West Coast American city.
What is Los Angeles?
The Lilly Library hosts a unique collection featuring over 30,000 of this particular type of game.
What are (mechanical) puzzles (from the Jerry Slocum Mechanical Puzzle Collection)?
Between 1883 and 1929, this Scottish-American titan of the steel industry funded more than 2,500 libraries bearing his name.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This is the common name for a library that is entitled to receive one free copy of each book published in a region. These libraries are often associated with government agencies involved with intellectual property administration.
What is a copyright library?
The British Library in London comes a close second with 170 million cataloged items, but this library has the largest collection of cataloged items, with over 178 million books, documents, and objects.
What is the Library of Congress?
Candlekeep is a fortress holding hundreds of thousands of ancient books in the lore of this famous RPG game.
What is Dungeon's and Dragons?
The Cook Music Library has an exhibit on this famous American conductor and composer, which features items from his office such as furniture, office supplies, and numerous certificates and awards, including his Grammys and honorary doctorates.
Who is Leonard Bernstein?
The first bookmobile, a horse-drawn book wagon designed by Mary Lemist Titcomb in Hagerstown, MD, was started this year.
a) 1881 b) 1905 c) 1914
When is 1905?
The front of the Bryant Park location of the New York Public Library features two large marble lion statues with these names.
Who are Patience and Fortitude?
Not all libraries have a code of silence; in 2015, a Finnish library introduced a room for this practice, a name that means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
What is karaoke?
In the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett, the Librarian of Unseen University takes the form of this arboreal animal, the only Great Ape found exclusively in Asia.
What is an Orang-utan?