Sentence examples for library of things from inspiring English sources

Aside from services, initiatives such as the Library of Things share items across a neighbourhood.

Four hundred residents have signed up to the project, which he says is less a charity shop than a "library of things".

The shop, which opened at the end of last month, is billed as the only one of its kind in the UK at the moment (although there's also been a "Library of Things" piloted in West Norwood, south London).

"In the long term, we do need to create a library of things that is not just about having 500 Citizen Kanes, because not everybody wants to watch Citizen Kane, and the people that do don't want to watch it all the time," he says.

North of Berlin's centre, Leila is a library of things - a pioneer of sharing in a consumer society.

I have a huge library of historic things on tape".

Apple has a whole iBooks library of the things with read-aloud narration, for example.

The present Dr. Dewey gets his head for figures and statistics from his father who invented the Dewey decimal system, by which practically all libraries keep track of things.

On Saturday thousands joined authors including Philip Pullman, who described Oxfordshire's proposal to close 20 of 43 libraries as "a darkening of things"; Mark Haddon; Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson, who delivered a protest statement to the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh; children's author John Dougherty and musician Billy Bragg in local events.

It is easy enough to predict the gradual, and I think inevitable, decline of the local circulating library, but the library as museum, as the repository of things that will come to be viewed as objects of contemplation rather than strict utility – books to look at, and to look up in, rather than to read – for that there is, I hope, a secure future.

I'm sure if we had Google back then, or if any of them bothered to read about history at one of those ancient library things, some of them might have realized what that flag symbolized.