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Exploring the World of Libraries: A Knowledge Quiz

This quiz tests your knowledge on libraries, their history, and their role in education and information services. Answer the questions to see how well you understand the significance of libraries throughout time.

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1 In addition to providing materials, libraries also provide the services of ________ who are experts at finding and organizing information and at interpreting information needs, such as books on drugs.

2 In the Early Middle Ages, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and before the rise of the large Western ________ monastery libraries beginning at Montecassino, libraries were found in scattered places in the Christian Middle East.

3 This wall system was first introduced on a large scale in Spain's ________.

4 and those at ________ about 700 B.C.

5 Archaeological findings from the ancient city-states of ________ have revealed temple rooms full of clay tablets in cuneiform script.

6 In the sixth century, at the very close of the Classical period, the great libraries of the Mediterranean world remained those of ________ and Alexandria.

7 What does the following picture show?  The Malatestiana Library (Italian: Biblioteca Malatestiana), in Cesena, is the first European civic library.[16]   Inscription regarding Tiberius Claudius Balbilus of Rome (d. c. AD 79), which confirms that the Library of Alexandria must have existed in some form in the first century.[citation needed]   School library.   Bangalore Central Library is designated as the State Central Reference Library and is open to the public only for consultation of documents within its premises

8 [11] Some mosques sponsored ________.

9 Private or personal libraries made up of non-fiction and fiction books (as opposed to the state or institutional records kept in archives) appeared in ________ in the 5th century BC.

10 Reference may be further broken down by user groups or materials; common collections are children's literature, young adult literature, and ________ materials.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue caused so many cancellations that Sports Illustrated and its publisher Time Warner had to stop delivery to certain subscribers, such as libraries.
  • the Embassy Gulf Service Station in Washington, D.C. was designed to be reminiscent of banks and libraries.
  • the Welsh library educator Peter Havard-Williams served as Chief Librarian to the Council of Europe.
  • the Mezhyhirskyi Monastery (pictured) in Ukraine, mentioned in Nikolai Gogol’s novel Taras Bulba, is thought to have included the lost library of Yaroslav the Wise.
  • the New Jersey Library Association, the oldest library organization in New Jersey, began in 1890 with 39 members and currently has over 1,600.
  • the twenty-six tons of books and artifacts from Dr. Robert Bell's private library were almost destroyed in an Ottawa fire.
  • the Woodland Public Library is the oldest, and one of the last functioning Carnegie-funded libraries in California.
  • the library in Michigan's Calumet and Hecla Industrial District originally housed public baths in its basement.
  • the Church of Scientology attempted to ban the non-fiction book Scientology: The Now Religion in Canadian libraries during 1974.
  • Ethelbert of York's 8th century library was probably the largest book collection of its day outside of Rome.
  • Choa Chu Kang Community Library was the first library in Singapore to install self-check machines for borrowing and returning of books.
  • Robert Walpole, father of England's first Prime Minister, holds the record for the longest overdue library book at 288 years.
  • Escape from Paradise, a book which documents a Singaporean woman's divorce, was removed from bookstores and libraries in the country in 2002, even after it had been reviewed in the Singapore press.
  • besides a mobile library, the Mobile Public Library also operates a system of libraries with eight branches and a local history and genealogy division with permanent addresses in Alabama.
  • American art historian Charles Rufus Morey published a pamphlet on library planning called "Laboratory-Library".
  • Polish bishop Józef Andrzej Załuski, founded Załuski Library, one of the largest 18th century European libraries.
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