This is not surprising seeing that the university was founded around a great library, and that this library continued to be the greatest in the world in its time.
To the skeptical mind, accustomed to undervalue what does not happen to come within the range of his pet idols or pursuits, the observation of a single day's multifold research in a great library might be in the nature of a revelation.
In the Library of the British Museum, a great library of reference, from which no book is permitted to be taken under any circumstances, the evil of mutilation was much reduced by prosecuting and posting the offenders publicly.
A great library is the scholar's dictionary--not to be read through, but to enable him to put his finger on the fact he wants, just when it is wanted.
No one can speak too highly of the offices of a great library.
But if a university is to fill the whole round and play part in society, it must enjoy, employ, and extend the organized memory of man as represented in a great library.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great library" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
