Meaning

• 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.

• (by extension) Any institution that lends out its goods for use by the public or a community.

• A collection of books or other forms of stored information.

• An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library.

• A room dedicated to storing books.

• A collection of software routines that provide functionality to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.

• A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.

• The deck or draw pile.