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===Research libraries{{anchor|Research library}}===
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[[File:Rijks Museum Library.jpg|right|thumb|Main reading room of the [[Rijksmuseum Research Library]] is the largest public [[art history]] [[research library]] in the [[Netherlands]]. The library is part of the [[Rijksmuseum]] in [[Amsterdam]].]]
A research library is a collection of materials on one or more subjects.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Young |first=Heartsill |title=ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science |year=1983 |page=[https://archive.org/details/alaglossaryoflib00youn/page/188 188] |publisher=American Library Association |location=Chicago |isbn=978-0-8389-0371-1 |oclc=8907224 |url=https://archive.org/details/alaglossaryoflib00youn/page/188 }}</ref> A research library supports scholarly or scientific research and will generally include [[primary source|primary]] as well as [[secondary source]]s; it will maintain permanent collections and attempt to provide access to all necessary materials. A research library is most often an [[academic library|academic]] or [[national library]], but a large [[special library]] may have a research library within its special field, and a very few of the largest public libraries also serve as research libraries. A large university library may be considered a research library; and in North America, such libraries may belong to the [[Association of Research Libraries]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arl.org/arl/membership/members.shtml |title=Association of Research Libraries (ARL) :: Member Libraries |website=arl.org |year=2012 |access-date=2 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419012722/https://www.arl.org/arl/membership/members.shtml |archive-date=19 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In the United Kingdom, they may be members of [[Research Libraries UK|Research Libraries UK (RLUK)]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rluk.ac.uk/|title=RLUK: Research Libraries UK|publisher=RLUK|access-date=9 January 2013|archive-date=13 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113090340/http://www.rluk.ac.uk/|url-status=live}}</ref> Particularly important collections in England may be ''[[Designation Scheme|designated]]'' by [[Arts Council England]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/designated-collections|title=Designated Collections|website=Arts Council England|access-date=23 March 2023}}</ref>

A research library can be either a reference library, which does not lend its holdings, or a lending library, which does lend all or some of its holdings. Some extremely large or traditional research libraries are entirely reference in this sense, lending none of their materials; most academic research libraries, at least in the US and the UK, now lend books, but not periodicals or other materials. Many research libraries are attached to a parent organization and may serve only members of that organization. Examples of research libraries include the [[British Library]], the [[Bodleian Library]] at [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]] and the [[New York Public Library Main Branch]] on 42nd Street in Manhattan, [[State Public Scientific & Technological Library|State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.spsl.nsc.ru/en/|title=SPSTL SB RAS|website=www.spsl.nsc.ru|language=en-US|access-date=2017-01-26|archive-date=16 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220216102423/http://www.spsl.nsc.ru/en/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl|title=Our Story|access-date=24 February 2022|archive-date=27 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127043118/https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl|url-status=live}}</ref>