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A library that contains practically any possible or conceivable information source known to man or some other intelligent/sapient species, if not a multitude of intelligent species. This labyrinthine library seems to be a natural breeding spot for MacGuffins and it has just about all of life's secrets and answers. The Great Big Book of Everything, Big Book of War, Reality-Writing Book, Portal Book, Tome of Eldritch Lore, and Chronoscopes along with other things can all be found here. Because of its wealth of knowledge, the library is a very valuable information resource for the main cast. It may be a Magical Library as well, which could go a long way into justifying its often unreal/absurd level of comprehensiveness. Often times this is guarded by a Magic Librarian or other force; in some cases, it may serve as the residence of a God of Knowledge. Sometimes there will be a struggle with another group trying to obtain the same information, sometimes in a physical fight, but just as often with a Battle of Wits. If you're lucky, you'll find what you need. If you're not, it may turn out to be a Blank Book all along. In many works, this setting is either very hard to get to, long forgotten, or rumoured to be a myth. In sci-fi and High Fantasy works, however, the library can be quite well publicized, and it's sometimes a big tourist destination. Please note that the library must not be split up into multiple smaller libraries but instead be a continuous entity. So you can have a huge connected library, but not a bunch of smaller branches. See also the Akashic Records, a mystical collection of all the knowledge in the universe, which may or may not be a physical entity. |
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The Great Library in the Thursday Next books, which contains every book that will ever be written, and a few more besides. | |
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The Invisible Library in Genevieve Cogman's book of the same name, which collects books from across The Multiverse, especially books that are unique to one reality. | |
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A key example is the Internet Archive. While it is best known for the Wayback Machine, it is also home to the largest online library, not only housing digitised books but also audio files, video files, software and images. And yes, it is registered as an actual library: it was done so by California in 2007. | |
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Subverted in The Labyrinth of Time. An orbital space station was meant to house a digital version of this, but it's accessed by a single terminal, and King Minos' attacks on the world had already caused a near-total deletion of its data. | |
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Umineko: When They Cry: The final episode features the City of Books. The entire library is owned by Featherine and contains all the various books and stories (in the meta-world, various Fragments) that she ever created. The final battle between Lambda, Battler and Ange against Bern takes place here. | |
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In Protector, part of Larry Niven's Known Space series, there's one on the Pak homeworld, large enough that the title character spent decades in one section. | |
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The Duke's Archives, the personal collection of Duke Seath the Scaleless in Dark Souls. It consists of multiple rather large rooms and an entire tower (that also doubles as a dungeon), and considering that Seath is the creator of sorcery, they're no doubt on rather dangerous subjects. One fan estimated that the tower/dungeon section of the Archives alone contains nearly 97,000 books, and that's barely half the Archives. | |
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The Great Library of Pandathaway in the Guardians of the Flame series appears to qualify — though its librarians also charge ruinously high fees to actually find the information within its cavernous shelves and chambers. | |
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The Infinity Library of the Lyrical Nanoha francise has all the publications and data of every world, and has been described as containing the memories of the universe. It's so huge that nobody has cataloged even a small fraction of it, and people wanting to use it for research often form multi-week expeditions to do so. These are people who can use search magic to speed things up and read several books at once, mind you. StrikerS uses the library to put Yuuno on a bus by appointing him as the Chief Librarian. At the age of 15. ViVid reveals that the more ancient, unsorted sections contain the original storage areas of the books themselves, requiring trained personnel to scour it first for hazards before declaring it safe for people to enter. | |
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"The Shadow Out of Time": The Pnakotus Archive of the Great Race of Yith hidden deep underground somewhere in the Australian Outback, which is supposed to contain the history and combined knowledge of every civilization that has ruled, or will ever rule, planet Earth. | |
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Justice League Dark: In a story arc of the 2021 volume, the team follows Merlin after he uses a spell to make Borges' Library of Babel real to recreate his spellbook through it. | |
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Doom Valley Prep School: The school library has bookcases that are two stories tall, and the aisles disappear off in the distance. It also doesn't follow normal geometry, as four right turns put you in a totally different area, and there is a cliff to climb to get to the second floor. There are five floors just like this. It also has books on every possible subject from curses, to the elemental plane of water, to autobiographies, to basket weaving. It has a small army of angels and demons of knowledge taking care of it. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol. 2: Following Themyscira's return to its Paradise Island roots the already extensive Amazon Library is supplemented with records from across space and dimensions by one of their new exotic refugees. The new records are kept in a tower and are in a different storage medium than ink and paper which makes them difficult to access without their protector granting access. | |
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Beauty and the Beast: Beast's castle has a huge library he shows off to Belle that seems to have about five floors worth of bookshelves. It looks notably big even by modern standards, let alone by the standards of 18th-century France (for which it might very well have every surviving book ever published up to that point based on its size). Belle is ecstatic to see so many books in one place, so Beast decides to give the library to her to read to her heart's content. | |
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Death also has a more straight version of this; in The Last Continent he is looking for information on the Discworld's version of Australia, XXXX. He walks into the library and asks for information on the dangerous animals, and is buried in books. He then changes the request to the non-dangerous ones, and one sheet of paper floats down, reading "some of the sheep." | |
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The Dresden Files has a version of this in the body of a human girl. The Archive is a magical repository of anything humanity has ever recorded or written down created as a safeguard against some sort of civilisation-destroying disaster, from the entirety of the internet to the financial documents of temples in ancient Thessalonika. It lives in the mind of a little girl named Ivy, who has access to all this information at a moment's notice. The main character at one point communicates with her by writing a message to her on a notepad, which immediately gets entered into the Archive for her to know and read. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-1986, a seemingly-infinite tunnel full of books that range from the slightly odd to extremely weird. The Serpent's Hand, a secret society opposed to the Foundation's practices, operates from an anomalous Library that contains almost every book ever written (along with a few that weren't). It exists "outside of normal space" but can be accessed through certain specific rituals performed in certain specific places. The Foundation aren't allowed in. SCP-4001 "Alexandria Eternal" is a library containing the life stories of every human being in history, and even before. The books can be edited to change reality around that person (such as changing gender, curing disease, or even expand lifespans indefinitely), and destroying the book causes the person to be Ret-Gone. The oldest books date back about 75 000 years, but the Foundation have discovered untold layers of ash beneath the floorboards. The library is also sentient, and can interact with its Watchers (various organizations throughout its history, most recently the Foundation) by writing in their books. |
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The Archives of the University in The Name of the Wind and sequels. It has no natural light, and it's so vast it's difficult to find anything, since no librarian could live long enough to implement an organization system, so there are different systems in place in different areas. It has The Big Board that marks locations in the world where teams of librarians are retrieving more books. There is one character, Puppet, who has lived in the Archives for years. There are "bad neighborhoods" of shelves with no organization whatsoever. There are secret passages that access the Archives from the undercity that was buried hundreds or thousands of years ago. | |
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The Discworld explains the phenomenon of L-Space, which can turn any collection of books into a Library of Babel, thusly: Knowledge = Power = Energy = Mass, which distorts time and space. "A good bookshop is just a genteel black hole that knows how to read." That said, it also has more specific examples. The library of Unseen University is a major "node" in L-Space owing to the sheer weight of accumulated knowledge distorting the space-time continuum. The library itself is pretty much a universe of its own where the library dome is always directly overhead no matter where you are, creatures such as the thesaurus lurk between the shelves, and lost research students have formed tribes in the stacks. The Library of Ephebe in Small Gods is clearly modeled on the real-life Library of Alexandria, i.e., a serious attempt to collect all known books in existence — with the added feature of an earthed copper roof in case one of the Disc's myriad deities takes issue with something in its collection. It seems large but otherwise normal until it is burning down and The Librarian pops in and out via L-Space to save some of the books. It gets rebuilt later with another library in Omnia acting as backup, but many works are irretrievably lost. Death's Library is a variation — every person's life story writes itself into a book somewhere on his shelves. As you go back, the histories are written on scrolls, then animal skins, then stone slabs... One character asks Death's daughter (adopted) what came before the slabs, because some people would "quite like to know". She replies that she didn't get that far, as she was running out of candles. Death also has a more straight version of this; in The Last Continent he is looking for information on the Discworld's version of Australia, XXXX. He walks into the library and asks for information on the dangerous animals, and is buried in books. He then changes the request to the non-dangerous ones, and one sheet of paper floats down, reading "some of the sheep." |
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Metalocalypse: There is a giant library in Mordhaus; the home of the death metal band Dethklok. It contains millions of books, including a diary that belongs to the lead singer's grandmother. | |
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The Great Celaeno Library from Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!, another Mythology Gag to the Cthulhu Mythos, which the protagonists visit in the 2013 TV season. It's said to contain just about every book in the known universe, and for good measure even includes the Gaia Library (see below under Live-Action Television). | |
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World of Warcraft: The Library section of the Karazhan instance has bookshelves as tall as staircases, as well as books strewn all along the floor which can be picked up and used to give you one of a few buffs, depending on the tome. In addition to that, there are at least two libraries which might fit this trope even though they are physically small because they are larger on the inside than the outside, and/or because they have no normal doors and can only be reached by teleportation. | |
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: In the arc "Futures Trading", the eponymous doctor uses a library of the printed out version of the entire Internet, with the aid of a robot of Google, to help him with overcoming the villains' Evil Plan and Storming the Castle. It's that kind of comic. | |
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Planescape: Thoth's Library is said to hold every book that was ever written or that will ever be created. | |
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One of the cars in Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail is known as the Library of Flying Books Car. It boasts paper people, flying books and numerous books from different universes. Chloe spends a week and a half there, tending the sentient books, reading stories, writing some of her own and even celebrating her Unbirthday there. | |
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Welcome to the Wayne: The Stanza is a gigantic library located in The Wayne accessed throught a portal in a mirror, managed by Mrs. Clara an elderly lady and helped by squid like creatures, there's a weaponry, railings that lift up when are grab and a control room by which she watches and controls the movements of the passages and giant bookcases. | |
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Labyrinths of Echo features Monin's Library — a patch of an alien universe containing only books that were never written, discovered by King Monin on the Flipside of the Dark Side. Hard to tell whether it was a deliberate crossover with The Sandman... or something else entirely. | |
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The academy district in the city of Lyrias in Snow White with the Red Hair hosts a series of libraries that are each stuffed with all of the books, papers and illustrations the researchers can acquire, with the kingdom requiring a copy or the original of any new papers written by it's professionals to be sent there. Since this is a setting in which most books are still written by hand these libraries are an invaluable resource. | |
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The Library of the Ancients in Final Fantasy V has an unbelievable number a books, including a large number which decide to attack the party. Being killed by a book is not a good way to go. | |
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Touchstarved has the Senobium, a university rumored to play host to one of these. While it's been closed to the public for years, desperate people — the protagonist among them — still make the perilous journey to Eridia in search of answers they can't find anywhere else. | |
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The Exterior Library in Maoyu contains all known knowledge from The Multiverse, and is populated by a mysterious demon clan. The titular Demon Queen hails from that clan, and used the knowledge she learnt from within to not only claim her current position, but also kick start the equivalent of the Real Life British Agricultural Revolution in the human world. And even she does not have clearance for everything in the library. Witch Girl is eventually revealed to be a member of the same clan despite having been raised, and perhaps originally being, a human and in her side story gains access to Exterior Library. | |
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Exalted has this in the form of the Forbidding Manse of Ivy, headquarters of the Bureau of Destiny's department of Secrets (basically the people who keep track of everything that has happened in order to plan when people will make certain discoveries). Jupiter, the Maiden of Secrets, has a personal library which is much smaller but considered to be significantly more valuable by people familiar with it, since it not only contains her personal collection, but her own annotations and commentaries. | |
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Legends of Chima: As seen in Attack on Eagle Spire, the Eagle Spire has a big library which Eris shows to Laval. | |
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The Imperial Archives in The Equestria Chronicles serves as one of these, holding all accumulated knowledge for the entire Earth in a 2.25 square mile room. The library itself is a cozy place, complete with fireplaces and warm lighting. It's also in the process of being digitized and stored in a nearby server room. | |
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The Swan Princess: There's an enormous library built within the castle of Queen Uberta, packed to the rafters with bookshelves. It is here that Prince Derek conducts his research into the cryptic clue left to him by the dying King William: "It's not as it seems." Derek has deduced that a chameleon creature, possibly a shape-shifter, slew King William and abducted Princess Odette. This proves to be correct, though Derek at one point misidentified the chameleon creature. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Candlekeep of the Forgotten Realms setting is probably the most well known example of this trope within D&D circles. The library has appeared in several novels and was the starting point for Baldur's Gate. Out of the Abyss: The party ends up needing to return to the Underdark to visit one of these called Gravenhollow to solve the problem of a demon infestation. There, the players can learn about how the demons were summoned in the first place, and what can be done to stop them. While there, everyone inside the library is always under the effects of the Comprehend Languages spell, to make finding and communicating whatever they need easier. Planescape: Thoth's Library is said to hold every book that was ever written or that will ever be created. |
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The towering fortress-library in The Name of the Rose contains all the accumulated knowledge of ancient Europe (see Literature, below). It burns down at the end due to the bastard antagonist, forcing William of Baskerville to make a tough decision about which books to take with him. Oh, and it's also a labyrinth full of secret passageways. | |
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Castlevania (2017): The Belmont family library, kept in their castle's hidden basement, is a vast trove of tomes, scrolls, and artifcats that serves as the largest single collection of knowledge on vampires, night creatures, magic, and the ways to fight the terrors in the night in all of Europe, if not the world. | |
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Moongobble and Me: Book 5 has Moongobble and co. visit the Society of Magicians' headquarters, and their archives, which has a record of every curse ever cast, among other things. The group goes there to find, successfully, information on the Oggledy Nork's curse. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: "The Library" in the desert is legendary for its supply of books. One scholar says that, as the library is withdrawing into the spirit world that he could spend his life searching and never find a greater store of knowledge. The supernatural librarian, Wan Shi Tong, charges new knowledge from visitors and sends out fox familiars to retrieve more. | |
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In Honkai Impact 3rd, the Divine Key "Void Archives" is intended to preserve all knowledge from the Previous Era of human civilization. When Otto Apocalypse makes contact with the Void Archives, it greets him in a mental space represented by a massive library and offers him access to it as part of a Deal with the Devil. | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court. Double Subversion. When the protagonist heads to the Court's library to get information for her school essay, you'd expect it to be an imposing, spooky, silent, mazelike place — after all, the Court shown so far is a massive imposing castle with supernatural inhabitants and qualities. Turns out, the library — at least, the sections not devoted to science and technology — is a single flimsy bookshelf with useless books. So the girls head to the old part of the library... which is an imposing, spooky, silent, mazelike place. | |
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The Temporal Security Agency in The Journeyman Project backed up ALL of recorded history on a single optical disc, specifically for the event that history would be altered. When that happens, a copy of this disc is left in the Agency headquarters to be altered while an Agent is sent to get the original in 200 million BC, and use the Agency computer to cross-reference the differences between the two. | |
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In Chainsaw Man, there is one inside the Cosmos fiend's mind, which she can bring other people into. Once there, she can put all of the content of all of the books in the library into the victim's mind. This, of course, completely breaks them, and for some reason the only thing they can think about after that is Halloween. | |
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Star Trek: Memory Alpha is the Library of Congress for the Federation. Since the Federation consists of multiple worlds, and new information is being brought in by Starships all the time, it's probably huge. Logically, there are Memories Beta through Omega to back it up in case the facility is lost. In one of Diane Duane's Star Trek novels, the Enterprise returns to Earth for a resupply, and while everyone else is on shore leave, Spock stays behind to update the ship's computers with information from all of Earth's major libraries. (He finds it relaxing.) |
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Fables: The comic contains a massive library so large that the foyer is large enough to be a seat of government and contain objects of mythical size (Excalibur has literally become as big as the legend of Arthur). Oddly even though it belongs to all sorts of magical creatures it's never implied to be magical in any way except for its extreme size. | |
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Warehouse 13: Myka discovers that the eponymous Warehouse also holds a massive library containing first editions of everything ever printed. | |
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Kaeloo: The main four own a library full of books on every topic available, no matter how ridiculous it may seem. | |
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Girl Genius: There is "The Incorruptible Republic of the Immortal Library of the Grand Architect" — an autonomous government which rules a vast library deep beneath Paris. They are generally disliked by the more important and responsible people in Europa for their overwhelming neutrality, although it's been proven that they may favour one faction over another based on their history with books. ("Unlike other members of his family, Prince Tarvek never incurred any overdue fines... or let his dogs chew on the books...") | |
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Journey to Chaos: The public library in Dnnac Ledo is massive. One cannot see the tops of the shelves nor the end of the rows; they extend beyond the horizon; the library is Bigger on the Inside. It contains every book the immortal Walking the Earth elves could get their hands on after thousands of years, more that they themselves have written, and it doesn't end with paper books either. It has artifact exhibits, virtual reality booths and jars of informative scents. The only reason Eric doesn't pitch a tent is because he doesn't have it with him at the moment. | |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events features several non-supernatural libraries which come close to this, including a massive system of filing cabinets, a collection of banned books, and a pile of valuable secret documents under a table. Every single book features a library of some sort which is plot important. | |
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Superman: The Fortress of Solitude has information from the 28 known galaxies. Supes decides to store up Earth's knowledge as well. | |
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The Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination, a private collection belonging to Jay Walker, that is half-library and half-museum. It includes many interesting artifacts such as facsimiles of historically important manuscripts, documents, and ancient texts, space artifacts such as one of the original Sputniks, famous film props such as the crystal ball from The Wizard of Oz, and many others, in addition to thousands of books. | |
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Library of Ruina is, of course, set in one of these; The Library of Babel is specifically referenced. Visitors are lured in by offering them books, then turn into books themselves when they fail the library's challenges and are added to the collection. | |
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The Gam3: One of the Game's factions, maintains a special, tightly guarded archive. Each book corresponds to a 'version' of the Game, and contains entire libraries of data about that time period. The earliest volumes are kept locked away even from the rest of the highly-secure archive. | |
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Nexus Clash has angelic Vaults of Enlightenment and demonic Damned Libraries, vast repositories of ancient knowledge from innumerable planes. The books within are a quick and easy way of Level Grinding and so factions strive to protect and control the libraries, but both kinds contain books that are all too willing to attack anyone who they deem unworthy of their knowledge. | |
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Wapsi Square: The Bibliothiki is an extra-dimensional library that contains every book ever written (but only things that have been written, no audio recordings). It is guarded by a sphinx librarian. It is implied that the Library of Alexandria was a physical manifestation. | |
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The online story Dominion and Duchy has one in the Galactic Library. It is run by an A.I. known as the Librarian and apparently holds the contents of the Great Library of Alexandria. The Librarian was apparently organizing it for the humans when they make first contact. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: Apocrypha, the Daedric plane of Oblivion belonging to Hermaeus Mora, the Daedric Prince of Knowledge (with a particular specialty in knowledge of the Eldritch variety), is a massive Magical Library. It is said to contain all of the knowledge in the universe. You get a chance to visit it in Skyrim's Dragonborn expansion, where it contains every book in the game, from the mundane to the Skill Books to the Spell Books, though most are randomly distributed. It also contains special "Black Books", artifacts which exist both on Nirn (where they act as portals to Apocrypha) and on this plane (where can actually be read and give special knowledge). The Imperial Library is the largest library on Nirn itself. Housed in the Imperial City's White-Gold Tower (which also serves as the palace of the Emperor), it also houses all known Elder Scrolls. Both the library and the Elder Scrolls are maintained by the Cult of the Ancestor Moth, whose members are referred to as "Moth Priests", an order dedicated to Julianos, the Aedric Divine God of Wisdom and Logic. (An unsubscribed event occurred sometime in the 4th Era which caused all of the Elder Scrolls to vanish from the library. They are now found scattered throughout Tamriel, and the Moth Priests have been working to recover them.) |
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Futurama: In "The Why of Fry" the Brain Spawn are constructing a database of all the knowledge in the universe, and once it's full, they plan to destroy the universe to make sure no new knowledge appears. In Fry's own words, "Now it's personal." The Brain Spawn, amusingly, are actually scanning in EVERY SINGLE FACT (such as "2+2=4", "Puppies are cute", etc) not just tomes of knowledge or principles of mathematics. (Fridge Logic: If they wanted to store all mathematical facts, they'd need to record infinite facts of the form "n+n=2n" alone.) Spoofed in "Mars University". All the literature in the world is in the Mars U libraryーon two disks. (Fiction and Nonfiction) |
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The Zweiteturm in Atelier Ayesha. The result of a Fling a Light into the Future, it holds tomes on a large number of subjects from before the Dusk (though naturally, the only people known to come there are after either alchemy tomes or stuff on flowers). The only problem is that it's filled with rouge Slags (aka worker robots) that the lone caretaker can't really do much about. Not helping is its location in the middle of a great big hole in the middle of a large, dense forest. | |
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The book The City of Dreaming Books by German author Walter Moers takes place in the city of Bookholm. On the surface, you can buy nearly every book in existence. But in the catacombes below, if you are able to survive long enough, you can find everything ever written. Somewhere. | |
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Some historians also estimate that around half of the books are merely commentaries on The Iliad. Similar to how any library in Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the Modern Era would be mainly commentaries on the Bible. Very important if you're into that sort of thing, but not as universally interesting as books of mathematics, technology, science, etc. | |
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Touhou Project features Voile, the Magical Library note It's yet to be officially referred to as such, but that's the name of the music track that plays there in the Scarlet Devil Mansion's basement. It's large enough to allow for a roughly five-minute-long aerial battle over the bookshelves traveling in one direction without ever reaching the end. The library is maintained by Patchouli Knowledge, who spends her days locked up inside adding to the already-massive cache of knowledge — she's not just the librarian, but also the author of an unspecified proportion of the tomes in her library, and probably the overwhelming majority of the magic books in the library, given the esoteric rules for wizardry in the Touhou 'verse. While 100 straight years of this have given her anemia, asthma, and Vitamin A deficiency, you are more than likely to find anything you could ever want in there (Marisa sure does). | |
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Magic: The Gathering: The plane of Mirrodin has the Knowledge Pool at Lumengrid, home of an entire race of Gadgeteer Genius Badass Bookworms known as the Vedalken. While the Pool is technically less of a traditional library as it is a swirling mass of liquid wisdom compiled by its keepers over countless millenia, the Vedalken have made it their prerogative from Day 1 to collect as much knowledge as is conceivably possible. The Bibleoplex on the plane of Arcavios, the beating heart of Strixhaven University, is a library so unbelievably massive that it has canals that require boats to cross, and is so tall that the higher levels have indoor weather patterns. The place is even rumored to contain a copy of every book of magic in the multiverse. |
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Nexus: The library of the Crystal Ballroom contains all the historical memory of (at least the known) universe. | |
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SINoALICE takes place in the Library, a mysterious world containing a countless amount of stories, ranging from famous literature works to fairytales, including tales from unknown worlds. The Library's form changes depending on one's perspective, such as taking the form of a massive library in the player's case. The books within the Library are used to either warp to different locations or to summon a weapon from the gacha. Residing in the Library include Nightmares, creatures based on monsters in fairy tales and myths, who live to consume the stories within the Library, and Characters, the characters of the stories come to life, fighting and killing the Nightmares in hopes that they can resurrect their authors to rewrite their stories in their own image. | |
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The Faerie Queene: The library of Eumnestes contains records of everything he remembers from his thousands of years on Earth. This includes chronicles on all the kings of Britain and the history of faeries, both of which take up the bulk of Canto X of Book II. | |
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Naru-Hina Chronicles: Hideki Nishimura's private collection includes some of the rarest, oldest, and most valuable texts in the entire world, covering a vast swath of knowledge, with information freely shared with any scholar. | |
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Game of Thrones: The Citadel that Samwell Tarly visits has an impressive library and has a lot of scientific research going on. | |
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Shimeji Simulation has the library that Yomikawa currently stays, which is a gigantic archive of all books written by humans across entire history. She is also revealed to be a living example of a library as she reveals to Shijima that every written book within several time periods are deeply connected to her. | |
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The creators of the first City of Gold in The Mysterious Cities of Gold had kept records of everything written "since man learned to write". Of course, that city is destroyed in the final episode, and so too are the writings. | |
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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night has a level called Long Library. It contains numerous books, especially ones that attack the protagonist, Alucard. There is a shop belonging to the Master Librarian, the head of Long Library. He sells items — such as healing potions — to Alucard. | |
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The Nuptialverse has the Keeper's library, which seems to be the sole location of her plane of existence. There's a book for every sentient being who's ever lived, containing every single detail of their lives. | |
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Warhammer 40,000 has plenty of planetary libraries and eldritch stores of information: The Black Library contains the collected knowledge of the entire Eldar race, but is hidden in the Webway and guarded by the greatest of the Harlequins' Solitaires. Only one human has visited it, but has sworn never to speak of what he found there, while the Arch-sorcerer Ahriman is obsessed with plundering its secrets for himself. The Imperium has thousands, ranging from Alexandria-sized to covering all the planets in a system. Unfortunately they seem to think cataloging things is a sin, and only tend to pop up in the background when they're being razed by Orks or captured by Chaos. Of particular note is the Adeptus Administratum offices on Holy Terra, where armies of robed scribes carefully record useless census data thousands of years out of date from worlds that don't exist anymore, then file the reports away in the kilometre-high stacks where they will never be read again. Meanwhile the Adeptus Mechanicus never deletes anything and stores the majority of the Imperium's scientific talent. The Hidden Library of Tzeentch is even larger than the Black Library and contains every single scrap of knowledge, every thought of every creature across space and time, and is where Tzeentch himself concocts his eternal plots. The Solemnance Archive, being a Necron record, has been expanding for the last hundred million years as its undead robot master, Trazyn the Infinite, adds new objects to his 'collection'. Such curios include the preserved head of an Imperial hero and entire armies of soldiers held in temporal stasis to form dioramas of historical conflicts. |
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In The Neverending Story, Bastian creates a library with every story he has ever composed, for the benefit of a city of storytellers. | |
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The library of St. Marguerite Academy, in Gosick, is known for its vast amount of books and labyrinthine staircases. A great deal of humor derives from the fact that Kujo has to climb the stairs to reach the greenhouse at the top level, while Victorique has the privilege to use the elevator. The library is also a prolific source of urban legends among St. Marguerite Academy students. It is said that a golden fairy inhabits the top floor, and that those who step on the thirteenth step of the stairway would be cursed. | |
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Goblins in the Castle: While its contents aren't really discussed, the library in Toad-in-a-Cage Castle has so many books, the Baron had to renovate a section of the building (via knocking out the walls between seven rooms) to make a single room big enough to hold them all. | |
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Red Sonja: At one point Red Sonja is recruited to defend the Citadel of All Knowledge. Despite the name it's a fairly small building, but given the era and difficulties of travel it may well be the greatest collection of knowledge in the world. | |
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Doctor Who: "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead" is set in a library the size of a planet, which has long since been abandoned due to an infestation of Vashta Nerada. note Said library debuted in Steven Moffat's story Continuity Errors, set in the New Adventures continuity. The TARDIS has been hinted to have an impressive library of its own, which is finally seen properly in the episode "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS". "The Inforarium" features yet another, this one involved in the business of selling information, and rather shadier than the Library above. "Extremis": The Haereticum, the Vatican's secret library of blasphemy, is at least five stories tall and filled with at least a thousand years' worth of the world's most dangerous literature. |
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Out of the Abyss: The party ends up needing to return to the Underdark to visit one of these called Gravenhollow to solve the problem of a demon infestation. There, the players can learn about how the demons were summoned in the first place, and what can be done to stop them. While there, everyone inside the library is always under the effects of the Comprehend Languages spell, to make finding and communicating whatever they need easier. | |
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Child of the Storm has a number of examples owing to the collection of canons: The Hogwarts library, which is a very extensive magical library in a building that's Bigger on the Inside — though still on the milder end of this trope. Asgard's libraries date back over a million years, and quite possibly well before that, since Asgard's civilisation is ancient — they've been gods for over a million years, ruled a galaxy spanning empire for a million or two before that, and only "probably" evolved after the dinosaurs went extinct. Doctor Strange's library is hinted to be the most impressive, since as an immortal in the region of 500,000 years old, a frequent abuser of Time Travel, a notorious pack-rat, and a habitual thief capable of stealing the Tesseract from Asgard's highest security vaults whenever he feels like it, he's accumulated an extremely extensive library. It's also implied to be a more conventional armoury. The Archive, as per The Dresden Files, is an example in the form of a young girl who has magical software in her head that records everything written down, ever. Strange is also implied to be responsible for that software, as the ultimate back-up drive for civilisation. |
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Afterlife (1996) has the Library of the Infinite, where Diligent SOULs can enjoy every book, film, or recording that was ever made, and even a vast number that weren't. | |
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The Avengers: The Elder of the Universe the Possessor founded the largest university and library in the Marvel Universe on the planet Rus, complete with a master computer containing his vast knowledge. | |
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Andromeda: The All Systems University had a library that stored the collective knowledge of the three galaxies. After the fall of the Commonwealth, the Collections Division began working in secret, preserving knowledge for the day civilization was restored. The crew finds their headquarters, and it is quite vast, and then it turns out that it's only one of three (though it's not clear if this is because one is insufficient or if it's a redundancy). | |
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In the Anti-Cliché and Mary-Sue Elimination Society, the Library Arcanium, the Society's base, has just about every book ever written, from every universe, and is basically in another dimension. It is very big. | |
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The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids has the Interdimensional Library, or simply "the Library", which allegedly contains a copy of every book ever published anywhere in The Multiverse (although Century Smith thinks the librarians may be exaggerating a bit). It is poorly organized, but spawns living projections of fictional characters who can instinctively navigate its strange logic and guide browsers to the books they need. Entry into the Library is not free: you have to pay by gifting them a new narrative, the stronger and truer the better. | |
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In Nomine: Yves' Library in Heaven contains anything ever written or recorded by mortals, ethereals and celestials, including some works that were only thought out or dreamed about. It's actually very well-organized ... but the sheer scale of its contents can make a search take days without assistance. Most of it is accessible to all seekers, but there's also a "special collection" that only the Archangels can enter, which includes tomes deemed too dangerous for even the most stalwart angels to read — for instance, a manifesto written by Lucifer to justify his rebellion. Kronos' Archive in Hell is a dark mockery of Yves' Library in the form of a comprehensive and thorough store of every tome on demonology ever penned, alongside the records and bookkeeping of Hell itself and histories of the War and treatises on the universe written from the demons' point of view. |
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Carto has the Story Chalet, full of books that write themselves due to events in the world. | |
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Uplift: Galactic civilization has a "Great Library" which holds most information for countless intelligent species. Every planet and outpost has its own branch. | |
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The Age of Stupid: Our protagonist currently lives in the Global Archive, a massive storage place located 800 km north of Norway. It apparently contains the artwork of every museum, pickled animals stacked up two by two, and every book, film, and scientific report known to man stored on banks of servers. | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: In "The Gift," it's implied that there's some kind of nebulous all-encompassing repository of art, culture, and knowledge in Nirvana, its contents readily available for the imagining. Penny's mom has what appears to be a bottomless collection of classic pop and classical music compact discs, which is only further augmented by Penny's suddenly-appearing collection of (mostly) non-chart-oriented 70s and 80s pop music. Referenced in stories such as "The Paris Trip" and "The Ship," and lampshaded in "The Funkmeister": |
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The Sandman (1989): The Library of Dream (pictured above) is full of those books that were conceived by their authors but never written or completed. This not only includes things like G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was October, or P. G. Wodehouse's Psmith and Jeeves, but an awful lot of books like That Romantic Comedy Sci-Fi Thriller I Used to Think About on the Bus to Work. Word of God has it that it has an annex that contains everything that actually was written, too. We just never see it because it's so tiny compared to the rest of the place. | |
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The Dark People from The Longest Journey seek to obtain every book ever written, which they store in their library, located on a moving island whose location is a secret for but a few. | |
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In The Goblin Reservation, The Crystal planet is a colossal library containing all the knowledge of the period spanning tens of billions of years and two universes. | |
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Played with in Ripper. One of the many places in Cyberspace is called the "Virtual Library", with a human librarian jacked in from outside, but cyberspace itself is a rather small array of sites, many of them just personal wells. This library isn't just limited to regular books but also files and software, though you still have to check them out manually. | |
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In Stellaris, one of the Fallen Empires, known as the Keepers of Knowledge, most of all values technological superiority and the unique knowledge collected in their Master Archive, which is located on the planet named after it. According to the game itself, "the collected knowledge of five galactic ages is supposedly stored here". Due to the incredible size of the Archive, the extreme complexity of both its structure and usage standards, and the overall millennia-long decline, even the Keepers themselves no longer know how to properly use this storehouse of knowledge. | |
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The Kingdom of the Isles has the library-fortress of Sarth, maintained by an order of monks. The library spans entire levels burrowed into a small hill, while an old dwarven mine beneath the hill provides even more room for expansion. | |
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The Doom mod Sunder includes the level "Archives of the Technomancer", set in and about a colossal library with bookshelves the size of apartment blocks. The bottom of the library is filled with lava, which for some reason doesn't seem to affect the books adversely. | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi has Library Island, a city-sized underground library so massive that Mahora actually has a school club dedicated to exploring it, with standard club equipment consisting of rock climbing gear. It's known to contain books that make the holder more intelligent, golems, dragons, secluded lakes, hidden passages (also lined with bookshelves), waterfallsnote that don't cause any water damage to the books behind them!, the roots of the World Tree, and lots of booby traps. | |
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Battleborn has a couple of this in its lore. Codex the Eldrid's seat of power before it was darkened was one. The planet was the home to massive data troves – a planet-spanning repository of all the knowledge from around the universe, encoded into the very DNA structure of the planet's massive eliim trees. After Codex was darkened and the Eldrid re-settled on their ancient homeworld of Ekkunar, they tried restoring what they lost via The Codex Regrowth. The Codex Regrowth is a testament to the Eldrid's determination to gain knowledge and preserve the natural order of the universe. There, the Eldrid have re-planted several seed-pods from the planet Codex in an attempt to re-grow the massive eliim trees and recover some of their lost knowledge troves. This grove is the setting of The Archive mission. |
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The Library of Ephebe in Small Gods is clearly modeled on the real-life Library of Alexandria, i.e., a serious attempt to collect all known books in existence — with the added feature of an earthed copper roof in case one of the Disc's myriad deities takes issue with something in its collection. It seems large but otherwise normal until it is burning down and The Librarian pops in and out via L-Space to save some of the books. It gets rebuilt later with another library in Omnia acting as backup, but many works are irretrievably lost. | |
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The Librarians has this as the basis of the show, with the characters having access to seemingly any book they need, as well as being a expansive display/collection of numerous magical artifacts, either of which are constantly in a state of being both stolen from and recovered to the library. The show takes place in the Annex, a (for budgetary reasons) smaller area but still connected to the main library. The Library is so big it's said to have to exist in a pocket dimension. This becomes a plot point when a villain's plot involves destroying the artifact keeping it there, which would destroy both the Library and the world if the two were forced to coexist. | |
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New World of Darkness: The Athenaeum is a domain of The Underworld that contains a ghostly copy of everything in history that has ever been written and then lost. It's also an unmappable Eldritch Location with no filing system, so good luck finding the specific resource you need. | |
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Buffyverse: The Watcher's Council has an extensive library. It was never shown, but apparently Giles talks about it a lot. When he starts on the subject, Buffy asks him to stop because "there are drool issues". Wolfram and Hart has a more practical version. When Wesley was shown their vast archive, he was disappointed to discover that it was a single small shelf of books. But the books are magical and can become any written work that ever existed. |
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Dragonrealm has the Library in Penacles. Although it reputedly contains a vast wealth of knowledge, much of it is very difficult to interpret. Knowledge gleaned from the Library also has the unfortunate quirk of disappearing from the reader's mind shortly after reading it, unless they make a concentrated effort to remember the information. | |
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Spectral Stalkers has the Library of Limbo, the first of many locations accessible in the Ziggurat. It's so big it doesn't even exist in the normal universe. | |
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Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors: One of the doors leads to a massive library filled with books on several different subjects. It was used by the ship's former owner as a storage for his book collection. | |
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Ashes of Empire: The "knowledge vault" on Lyonesse hasn't reached this level yet, but they're working on it. | |
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