Talk:Private library

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[edit] Removal of cleanup mark

What else should be done to this article before the Cleanup mark can be removed? It seems to meet most MoS suggestions. Grika Ⓣ 16:31, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

A lot more. You are right in doing an article on private libraries. They are certainly very important and they merit pages and pages of description, with links to the articles that deal with books and book collecting, and also mansions. For several centuries there were very few public libraries or none at all and the transmission of knowledge depedned a lot on private libraires. This is still true in many countries. However, at several places in this article you are confusing true private libraries, which are in the homes of individuals, and "special librairies", which are small, specialised libraries in the offices of lawyers, big companies, and all kinds of organisations. This term, "special libraires" is the correct term, in most of the english speaking world for this type of library. The older term "documentation center" is used also sometimes. There is already an article on the Special Libraries Association with a link to the web pages of the association, but there is not yet an article on "special libraries" Go take a look at the web site of the special libraries association to have a better idea of the importance of that particular term and the difference with a private library. --AlainV 04:03, 5 October 2005 (UTC)