"they had brandy in the library" a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing a depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study (computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use a building that houses a collection of books and other materials
National Library of Medicine
The world's largest medical library. It collects materials in all major areas of the health sciences and to a lesser degree in such areas as chemistry, physics, botany and zoology. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/