Definition: Library
Culture
Library is an organisation, or part of an organisation, whose main aims are to build and maintain a collection and to facilitate the use of such information resources and facilities as are required to meet the informational, research, educational, cultural or recreational needs of its users; these are the basic requirements for a library and do not exclude any additional resources and services incidental to its main purpose
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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), "2009 UNESCO Framework for Cultural Statistics", Montreal, 2009
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