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The Biblioteca Vasconcelos in Mexico City was dedicated to José Vasconcelos, the philosopher and former president of the National Library of Mexico.

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The Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid is the national library of Spain. It was founded in 1712 and currently holds over 15 million books.

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The Göttweig Abbey Library in Austria has 130,000 books and manuscripts and an important collection of religious engravings.

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The Sainte-Geneviève Library is a public and university library in Paris, which inherited the collection of the Abbey of St Genevieve. It contains around 2 million documents. The current building has been designed and built between 1838 and 1850 by Henri Labrouste.

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The library of Celsus is an ancient Roman building in Ephesus, Anatolia, Turkey. It was built in 135 AD to store 12,000 scrolls and to serve as a monumental tomb for Roman Senator Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus.

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The interior of the Wren Library, Cambridge, showing the limewood carvings by Grinling Gibbons.

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Known for its Romanesque architecture, which also incorporates elements of Moorish and Byzantine architecture, Powell Library is the main undergraduate library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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The 65-metre-long (213 ft) main chamber of the Trinity College Library in Dublin was built between 1712 and 1732 and houses 200,000 of the library's oldest books.

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The rotunda reading room of the Stockholm Public Library.

The rotunda reading room of the Stockholm Public Library designed by Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund.

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Example of the relations in Medical Subject Headings

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a huge controlled vocabulary (or metadata system) for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences. This image shows how the subject heading for 'Stomach Neoplasms' is hierarchically subordinate to other higher-level subject headings.

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Over 2500 Carnegie libraries, such as this one in Brentford, United Kingdom, were built with funds granted by Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie.

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This building, the library of Tung Sri Muang temple, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand, illustrates the typical architectural style of the Isan region.

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Duke Humfrey's Library is the oldest reading room in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.

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The University Library of Graz, whose historical reading room is pictured here, is the third biggest scientific and public library in Austria.

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A bookmobile or mobile library, such as this one belonging to Ottawa Public Library, is a large vehicle designed for use as a library. It is designed to hold books on shelves, so that when the vehicle is parked the books can be accessed by readers.

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An old library card catalog.

Prior to the adoption of automated systems, the card catalog was the primary means of accessing a library's collection.

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Guidelines

Selecting a picture

There is no formal nomination process for adding a new picture to the selected pictures collection. Before adding a picture, keep the following in mind:

1. Pictures must be free, either public domain or freely licensed. Fair use images are not permitted outside of the article namespace (see Fair use policy criteria #9).
2. Pictures should be of high quality.
3. Pictures should be a useful means to point to Wikipedia content. Do not add a picture that is not in use somewhere within a Wikipedia entry. To determine this, check the bottom of the image page itself, where you will find a list of File Links.

Suggest a picture

Feel free to leave any suggestions for a selected picture in this section. Comments are helpful.

Nominations:

If you are feeling ambitious, the instructions for adding an entry to the selected picture collection are outlined below. Any questions or disagreements about the appropriateness of an entry should be discussed on the talk page.

Adding a picture

• Go to Portal:Library and information science/Selected picture/Layout and grab the layout template.
• Go to the next available subpage (Portal:Library and information science/Selected picture/n+1 - where n is the number of the topmost picture on this page, as it will be throughout these instructions).
• Paste the layout template into the subpage and fill in the appropriate fields.
• On this page, add the following text directly above the topmost selected picture:

{{Portal:Library and information science/Selected picture/n+1}}
[[Portal:Library and information science/Selected picture/n+1]]
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• Go to the main portal page edit screen and find the following text. Look closely as there are other similar components on the page.

{{Random portal component|max=n|seed=29|header=''selected picture''|
footer=More selected pictures...|subpage=Selected picture}}

• Change the max attribute from n to n+1. Save and you're done! Thanks for the contribution.