The phrase "compile a library" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe the process of collecting and organizing documents, books, films, recordings, etc. into a single mount. For example, "The librarian spent months compiling a library of all the original works of the author."
"My obsession drove us to compile a library of interviews and strange stories from across the globe.
The researchers say they hope to compile a library of all ZIP codes in every human organ, perhaps by infusing patients with their viral peptide miscellany just before operations to remove diseased organs.
A civil liberties group asked a federal judge in Los Angeles yesterday to rule that owners of ReplayTV recorders are not violating copyright law when they use the device to compile a library of television shows, send a show over the Internet to other Replay owners, or automatically fast-forward through commercials.
He also allegedly compiled a library of terrorism documents, including instructions on how to make explosives and tactics used by terrorist organisations.
The company has compiled a library of instructional videos that have reduced customer questions by half, allowed the company to eliminate phone support and cut its customer service budget about 40 percent.
Recently, the Tox21 program compiled a library of 10,000 compounds, and systematically carried out HTS projects against a group of targets and pathways, such as androgen receptor (AR), estrogen receptor (ER), retinoic acid receptor (RAR) and other receptors, searching simultaneously for agonists and antagonists in a pairwise manner.
Subsequently, Jiang et al. [ 9] compiled a library of known duplicon sequences and used this library to efficiently annotate SDs in a new genome.
In order to identify novel signalling pathways initiated by extracellular protein interactions between cell surface and secreted receptor-ligand pairs, we have recently compiled a library containing the ectodomain fragments of 249 zebrafish glycoproteins which mainly belong to the immunoglobulin (IgSF) and leucine-rich repeat (LRR) families [ 21, 22].
Everyone sent me a list, as I asked, so that I could compile a "virtual library" and email it round after Christmas.
Mr. Kopper had long dreamed of reviving the original format, and in 2008 CBS hired him half-time to compile a music library for an HD station, without live programming.
The most commonly used method for identifying novel splicing events using RNA-Seq is to compile a junction library.
