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Quiz

  1. Can you name the main research library of the University of Oxford?
  2. Which British retail chain once operated a book lending service in many of its branches—a service maintained until the mid-20th century that functioned much like a public library?
  3. Poet Philip Larkin was the head librarian at which university?
  4. In which British city is Chetham's Library, the oldest free public reference library in the English-speaking world?
  5. Patience and Fortitude are a pair of marble lions that stand in front of which city's public library?
  6. Which Scottish-American industrialist devoted much of his life to large-scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on building local libraries?
  7. The National Library of Wales is in which Welsh town or city?
  8. The 1744 work The Present State of the Universities described which library as "the most magnificent structure in Oxford"?
  9. The Library of Congress is a research library in which American city?
  10. Which beautifully illustrated medieval manuscript is on display in the Long Room of Trinity College Library in Dublin, Ireland?
  11. Who, in 1785, became the librarian to Count Joseph Karl von Waldstein in the Castle of Dux, Bohemia?
  12. Which library in classical antiquity was part of a larger research institution called the Mouseion, which was dedicated to the Muses?
  13. What is DDC, the library classification system that organises books by subject using a numerical system?
  14. Designed by the architect I. M. Pei, in which city is the presidential library and museum of John F. Kennedy?

Answers

  1. The Bodleian Library
  2. Boots (known as Boots Book-Lovers' Library)
  3. University of Hull
  4. Manchester
  5. New York City
  6. Andrew Carnegie
  7. Aberystwyth
  8. Radcliffe Camera
  9. Washington, D.C.
  10. The Book of Kells
  11. Giacomo Casanova
  12. The Library of Alexandria
  13. The Dewey Decimal Classification