library

noun (plural libraries)

• a building or room containing collections of books, periodicals, and sometimes films and recorded music for use or borrowing by the public or the members of an institution:a university library [as modifier]:a library book
• a collection of books and periodicals held in a library: the Institute houses an outstanding library of 35,000 volumes on the fine arts
• a room in a private house where books are kept: there was a library that Uncle Hilbert used as his study
• a series of books or recordings issued by a company as a set.
• a collection of films, recorded music, etc., organized systematically and kept for research or borrowing:a record library
• (also software library) Computing a collection of programs and software packages made generally available, often loaded and stored on disk for immediate use: download any of thousands of programs from our software libraries