0 (a place for looking at) a collection of books that must be read only where they are kept and not taken away -- （藏书不供外借的）参考图书馆，工具书阅览室
Europe still remains the chief breeding ground of ideas as well as the laboratory, the studio, and the reference library of modern civilisation.
Catalogues and magazines are available in the reference library next to the art shop in the lobby on the first floor.
Reference libraries have been started at each of these offices and are being built up progressively.
Third, only a small proportion of the heavily used books in reference libraries would in any case be eligible.
It deserves a place in every linguistics reference library.
It is a must for any geological reference library as there is no equivalent cover currently available.
Its canon is a reference library of books on literary theory, philology, sociology, and cultural anthropology, and belongs for the most part to the genre of the social sciences.
It is a reference library and is open to the general public.
