The phrase "a sort of library" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a place or collection that resembles a library in some way, but may not fit the traditional definition.
Example: "The new community center has a sort of library where residents can borrow books and access computers."
Alternatives: "a kind of library" or "a type of library".
The columns of glacier water reminded me of the core samples that climate scientists drill out of the deep ice, which likewise function as a sort of library or memory, recording altered states and weathers, sometimes over many centuries.
The repository is a sort of library dating from the 18th century, now housed in a brownstone near Central Park that's mysteriously bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, with glorious Tiffany windows that... well, surely the images in the windows aren't moving?
The developed elementary traffic models have been implemented into Matlab/Simulink environment and collected into a sort of library.
Users can what chapters are available in the Episode smartphone app, which functions as a sort of library.
In the twenty-four chapters of his Book on the Science of Metaphysics 'Abd al-Latif paraphrases and summarizes a sort of "library" of treatises on metaphysics (Zimmermann 1986) which were assimilated in the formative period of falsafa and imposed themselves to the point of becoming canonical.
The experiments became a sort of "library," accessible all day long with the same freedom as a library of books.
These airliner tubes, with their confined hours-long intervals, had been a last refuge from the grid, a sort of enforced library reading room.
In his ramshackle SoHo studio – a sort of comics library with a membership of just one, it consists of a dingy bathroom, a kitchenette, a drawing board, the odd dusty plant and about eight million quietly groaning books – Spiegelman lights yet another cigarette.
He envisions a sort of cyber-Library of Alexandria, a more lateral space for public discourse based on the historical record rather than on opinion, often reckless or incoherent, paraded as fact and bestowed from above.
Most people have over the past decade learned to think of the world wide web as a gigantic sort of library, with "pages" and "directories".
First, we walked through a vast warehouse lined with towering racks of IKEA products — a sort of furniture lending library, where an interior designer can check out whatever crib or dresser he needs.
