0 a library of books to be looked at for information but not borrowed. -- håndbibliotek
I should not like to undertake to make a special document—we are not a reference library, and publications must have some sort of purpose.
The one is a reference library; the other is a lending library.
The only difference occurs when the same book that the mobile library lends out is placed under restriction in a reference library.
It would be inconceivable to charge students, historians or anybody else for the use of a reference library.
It is as essential to secure free access to archives as it is to allow students free run of a reference library.
We therefore consider that the site is sufficient to provide a worthy national reference library.
It is intended solely for the city's reference library.
It is a reference library and is open to the general public.