Repository of more and more books

A library is a place for having group of information, sources, resources, books, and services, and the arrangement in which it is housed: it is prepared for use and preserved by a public body, an institution, or a private personality. In the more conventional sense, a library is a gathering of books. The term can mean the collection, the structure that houses such a collection, or both.
Public and institutional collections and services may be planned for use by people who choose not to or cannot afford to acquire an extensive collection themselves, who require material no individual can reasonably be projected to have, or who require professional assistance with their research.
However, with the collected works of media other than books for store information, many libraries are now also repositories and admission points for maps, prints, or other documents and works of art on a variety of storage media such as microform (microfilm/microfiche), audio tapes, CDs, LPs, cassettes, videotapes, and DVDs. Libraries may also provide public facilities to access CD-ROMs, payment databases, and the Internet.