reference library

English

Noun

reference library (plural reference libraries)

  1. A library that exclusively collects reference books (which may not be lent out to the general public).
    Synonym: reading room (in one of its senses)
    • 1944 May and June, Arthur B. Longbottom, “The Derby Railway Institute”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:
      The amenities of the institute include a well-arranged open-access library of 18,000 volumes, and a small but valuable reference library of railway literature; the present writer is Librarian.

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