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public library
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free community resource offering access to books, media, and information, promoting literacy and education for all ages
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- public service
- Image
- Johor Public Library Corporation (2020).jpg
- Has use
- public service
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- Commons category
- Public libraries
- topic's main category
- Category:Public libraries
- opposite of
- private library
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- P13411
- 2007
via Wikidata · CC0
~40 min read
Encyclopedic overview
A public library is a library, most often a lending library, that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians and library paraprofessionals, who are also civil servants.
Public libraries are supported by taxes, are open to all who wish to access the library collection, and do not charge money for access to the library collection.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “public library” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.