Sentence examples for books collection from inspiring English sources

Other families might frequent their local library; the Houghton family endowed the rare books collection at Harvard University.

Last December, Google and Harvard University's Cultural Observatory unveiled the Ngram Viewer, an enticingly simple interface for querying the enormous Google Books collection.

Duncan Chappell, the school's librarian, explained that about half of the school's rare books collection was in the library when the fire struck.

It has an art gallery hosting both permanent and temporary art exhibitions, a rare books collection and a fully functional modern theatre.

Dealers came to check out the small valuable books collection, which once included a first edition of Virginia Woolf's first novel, "The Voyage Out".

Mrs. Clark's vast doll collection, rare books, collection of valuable musical instruments, and artwork including paintings of her own, are in the process of being removed from the apartments.

And I would decide myself what to do with all my "stuff" — my books, collections, clothing and furniture.

Now, my mother's massive book collection of murder mysteries and crime thrillers sit on a bookshelf collecting dust.

Last academic year, almost 200 classes and student tours visited the rare-books collection of the University of Pennsylvania.

"We cannot just take books from the rare-books collection and display them in a makeshift case," Lupas, who has a Romanian accent, said.

To that end, he is searching for a resting place, and the strongest contender is the Lilly Library at Indiana University, with its renowned rare-books collection.