library

facility charged with the care of a collection of literary, musical, artistic, or reference materials, such as books, manuscripts, recordings, or films
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library

Summary

library ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (679 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • library is a type of cultural institution[2].
  • library is a type of information service provider[3].
  • library is a type of GLAM[4].
  • library is a type of public institution[5].
  • library is a type of collection[6].
  • library is a type of literary society[7].
  • library's Commons category is recorded as Libraries[8].
  • library is the opposite of Antilibrary[9].
  • library comprises library special collection[10].
  • library's feast day is recorded as October 24[11].
  • library's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Libraries[12].
  • library's Commons gallery is recorded as Library[13].
  • library's facet of is recorded as sharing economy[14].
  • library's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as amenity=library[15].
  • library's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[16].
  • library's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • library's described by source is recorded as Orthodox Theological Encyclopedia[18].
  • library's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19].
  • library's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[20].
  • library's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[21].
  • library's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[22].
  • library's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[23].
  • library's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana[24].
  • library's described by source is recorded as The American Cyclopædia[25].
  • library's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include cultural institution[2], information service provider[3], GLAM[4], public institution[5], collection[6], and literary society[7]. library is the opposite of Antilibrary[9].

Use and Application

library comprises library special collection[10].

Why It Matters

library ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (679 views/month).[1] library has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] library is known by 54 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . eblida.org. eblida.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · KrBot bot · 2026-10-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → cultural institution, information service provider, GLAM +3
    Sitelink count → 204
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'ang', 'ann', 'ar', 'arc', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'av', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q3152824]], разрешение перенаправления / resolving redirect [[Q141501527]] → [[Q3152824]] ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/KrBotResolvingRedirect/Q141501527_Q315"
  2. 11d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Library, https://schema.org/Library, http://dati.beniculturali.it/cis/Library +3
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1709]]: https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang=OWL&term=Library"
  3. 16d ago · Gymnicus · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Model item → Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Library of Alexandria, public library +1
    Openstreetmap way id → —
    Subclass of → cultural institution, information service provider, GLAM +3
    Wikidata description → facility charged with the care of a collection of literary, musical, artistic, o
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/55109|batch #55109]]"
  4. 28d ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Openstreetmap way id → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P10689]]: 119524747, Adding OSM way id claim from wikidata tag on way/119524747 in United States"
  5. 6w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Emperor Taizong of Liao
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  6. 10w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Dzerzhinsky
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q295690, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  7. 11w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 9949
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P8590]]: 9949, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167481524|LIBRARIES (#167481524)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclopedia]] #mi"
  8. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1XBwql
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  9. 14w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 3682
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P9106]]: 3682, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107285884|libraries (#107285884)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Classical Dictiona"
  10. 15w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → libraries
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: libraries, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289941004|libraries (#289941004)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix"
  11. 15w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4, Open Culture / GLAM Glossary, Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have +1
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36807|batch #36807]]: tag for concrete/abstract disjunction anomaly"
  12. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001738-knihovny
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0001738-knihovny, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  13. 17w ago · HelloImSteven · 2026-06-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → cultural institution, information service provider, GLAM +3
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q58326331]]"
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