noun An institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users.
She went to exchange her books at her local library.
noun Any institution that lends out its goods for use by the public or a community.
You can check out a bandsaw from the tool library.
noun A collection of books or other forms of stored information.
noun A collection of information or reference materials not in book form.
She has the most impressive record library I've ever seen.
noun A room dedicated to storing books.
noun A collection of software routines that provide functionality to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.
noun A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.