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* In ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' features Voile, the Magical Librarym[[note]] It's yet to be officially referred to as such, but that's the name of the music track that plays there[[/note]] in the Scarlet Devil Mansion's basement. It's large enough to allow for a stage roughly five-minute-long aerial battle over the bookshelves traveling in one direction without ever reaching the end. The library is maintained by [[BadassBookworm 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 this have given her [[SquishyWizard anemia, asthma, and Vitamin A deficiency]], you are more than likely to find anything you could ever want in there ([[KleptomaniacHero Marisa]] sure does).
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' features Voile, the Magical Librarym[[note]] Library [[note]] It's yet to be officially referred to as such, but that's the name of the music track that plays there[[/note]] in the Scarlet Devil Mansion's basement. It's large enough to allow for a stage roughly five-minute-long aerial battle over the bookshelves traveling in one direction without ever reaching the end. The library is maintained by [[BadassBookworm 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 this have given her [[SquishyWizard anemia, asthma, and Vitamin A deficiency]], you are more than likely to find anything you could ever want in there ([[KleptomaniacHero Marisa]] sure does).
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** In HP Lovecraft's writing, some real world libraries also hold [[TomeOfEldritchLore tomes of Eldritch lore]]. The Necronomicon, one of the best known examples, can be found in the British Museum, the National Library of France, the Widener Library of Harvard University, and the University of Buenos Aires. Some of these (particularly the National Library of France) are so old and so large that they probably count as real life examples without the terrifying books which drive people mad. [[hottip:*: Then again, the National Library of France is where the original papers related to the Priory of Sion hoax were found, so it does contain written materials that have been shown to trigger delusions.]]
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** In HP Lovecraft's writing, some real world libraries also hold [[TomeOfEldritchLore tomes of Eldritch lore]]. The Necronomicon, one of the best known examples, can be found in the British Museum, the National Library of France, the Widener Library of Harvard University, and the University of Buenos Aires. Some of these (particularly the National Library of France) are so old and so large that they probably count as real life examples without the terrifying books which drive people mad. [[hottip:*: Then [[note]]Then again, the National Library of France is where the original papers related to the Priory of Sion hoax were found, so it does contain written materials that have been shown to trigger delusions.]][[/note]]
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* The Library of Dream in ''The Sandman'' is full of those books that were conceived by their authors but never written or completed. This not only includes things like Creator/GKChesterton's ''The Man Who Was October'', or Creator/PGWodehouse's ''[[CanonWelding 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''. WordOfGod 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 Library of Dream in ''The Sandman'' ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' is full of those books that were conceived by their authors but never written or completed. This not only includes things like Creator/GKChesterton's ''The Man Who Was October'', or Creator/PGWodehouse's ''[[CanonWelding 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''. WordOfGod 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 Library of Dream in ''Comicbook/TheSandman'' is full of those books that were conceived by their authors but never written or completed. This not only includes things like Creator/GKChesterton's ''The Man Who Was October'', or Creator/PGWodehouse's ''[[CanonWelding 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''. WordOfGod 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 Library of Dream in ''Comicbook/TheSandman'' ''The Sandman'' is full of those books that were conceived by their authors but never written or completed. This not only includes things like Creator/GKChesterton's ''The Man Who Was October'', or Creator/PGWodehouse's ''[[CanonWelding 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''. WordOfGod 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 Great Celaeno Library from ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'', another MythologyGag to the CthulhuMythos, which the protagonists visit in the 2013 TV season. It's said to contain just about every book in the known universe, and for [[ShoutOut good measure]] even includes the [[Series/KamenRiderDouble Planet Library]].
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* Theoretically, the universe contains a record of every phenomenon that has ever [[PerfectlyCromulentWord phenomened]]; signals sent out contain information that can't be destroyed any more than energy can. The signal may become lost in noise, distorted and diluted past any hope of interpretation, and as useless as a full scale map, but it's there. ''[[ShapedLikeItself Everything]]'' is a GreatBigLibraryOfEverything.
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* Theoretically, the universe contains a record of every phenomenon that has ever [[PerfectlyCromulentWord phenomened]]; signals sent out contain information that can't be destroyed any more than energy can. The signal may become lost in noise, distorted and diluted past any hope of interpretation, and as useless as a full scale map, but it's there. ''[[ShapedLikeItself Everything]]'' is a GreatBigLibraryOfEverything.Great Big Library of Everything.
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* Elder of the Universe and SilverSurfer foe, 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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* Elder of the Universe and SilverSurfer ComicBook/SilverSurfer foe, 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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A library that contains practically any possible/concievable information source known to man [[note]] or seems to, at the very least, in which case the subversion of expectations would cause in-universe shock/disbelief)[[/note]]. This labyrinthian library seems to be a natural breeding spot for {{MacGuffin}}s and it has just about all of life's secrets and answers. The GreatBigBookOfEverything,[[note]][[MST3KMantra Try not to think about]] whether or not that book would contain a copy of every book in the library, [[FridgeLogic including itself]]. [[MindScrew Seriously,]] [[RealityBreakingParadox don't]].[[/note]] BigBookOfWar, RealityWritingBook, PortalBook, and {{chronoscope}}s 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. May be a MagicalLibrary as well, which could go a long way into justifying its often unreal/absurd level of comprehensiveness.
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A library that contains practically any possible/concievable information source known to man (or some other intelligent/sapient species), if not a multitude of intelligent species [[note]] or seems to, at the very least, in which case the subversion of expectations would cause in-universe shock/disbelief)[[/note]]. This labyrinthian library seems to be a natural breeding spot for {{MacGuffin}}s and it has just about all of life's secrets and answers. The GreatBigBookOfEverything,[[note]][[MST3KMantra Try not to think about]] whether or not that book would contain a copy of every book in the library, [[FridgeLogic including itself]]. [[MindScrew Seriously,]] [[RealityBreakingParadox don't]].[[/note]] BigBookOfWar, RealityWritingBook, PortalBook, and {{chronoscope}}s 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. May be a MagicalLibrary as well, which could go a long way into justifying its often unreal/absurd level of comprehensiveness.
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A library that contains practically any possible/concievable information source known to man [[note]] or seems to, at the very least, in which case the subversion of expectations would cause in-universe shock/disbelief)[[/note]]. This labyrinthian library seems to be a natural breeding spot for {{MacGuffin}}s and it has just about all of life's secrets and answers. The GreatBigBookOfEverything,[[note]][[MST3KMantra Try not to think about]] whether or not that book would contain a copy of every book in the library, [[FridgeLogic including itself]]. [[MindScrew Seriously,]] [[RealityBreakingParadox don't]].[[/note]] BigBookOfWar, RealityWritingBook, PortalBook, and {{chronoscope}}s 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.
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* "The Library" in the desert in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' whose supernatural librarian, Wan Shi Tong, keeps humans outside because they [[HumansAreBastards have an annoying tendency to abuse his knowledge.]] The protagonists, after promising Wan Shi Tong that they were not going in the library with malicious intent, go up to the observatory and find the next eclipse -- but only because they're planning to launch an attack. Long story short, Wan Shi Tong overhears them and gets very, very mad.
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* "The Library" in the desert in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' whose supernatural librarian, Wan Shi Tong, keeps humans outside because they [[HumansAreBastards [[ThereAreThingsThatManWasNotMeantToKnow have an annoying tendency to abuse his knowledge.]] The protagonists, after promising Wan Shi Tong that they were not going in the library with malicious intent, go up to the observatory and find the next eclipse -- but only because they're planning to launch an attack. Long story short, Wan Shi Tong overhears them and gets very, very mad.
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A library that contains practically any possible/concievable information source known to man [[note]] or seems to, at the very least, in which case the subversion of expectations would cause in-universe shock/disbelief)[[/note]]. This labyrinthian library seems to be a natural breeding spot for {{MacGuffin}}s and it has just about all of life's secrets and answers. The GreatBigBookOfEverything,[[note]][[MST3KMantra Try not to think about]] whether or not that book would contain a copy of every book in the library, [[FridgeLogic including itself]]. [[MindScrew Seriously,]] [[RealityBreakignParadox [[RealityBreakingParadox don't]].[[/note]] BigBookOfWar, RealityWritingBook, PortalBook, and {{chronoscope}}s 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.
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A library that contains practically any possible/concievable information source known to man [[note]] or seems to, at the very least, in which case the subversion of expectations would cause in-universe shock/disbelief)[[/note]]. This labyrinthian library seems to be a natural breeding spot for {{MacGuffin}}s and it has just about all of life's secrets and answers. The GreatBigBookOfEverything,[[note]][[MST3KMantra Try not to think about]] whether or not that book would contain a copy of every book in the library, [[FridgeLogic including itself]]. [[MindScrew Seriously,]] [[DivideByZero [[RealityBreakignParadox don't]].[[/note]] BigBookOfWar, RealityWritingBook, PortalBook, and {{chronoscope}}s 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.
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* The Exterior Library in ''LightNovel/MaoyuuMaouYuusha'' contains all known knowledge from TheMultiverse 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 RealLife British Agricultural Revolution in the human world.
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* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' 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), ''waterfalls''[[note]] that don't cause any water damage to the books behind them![[/note]] the roots of TheWorldTree, and lots of {{booby trap}}s. [[http://www.mangafox.com/page/manga/read/71/mahou_sensei_negima/chapter.11056/page.14/ See]] [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v14/c126/14.html for]] [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v14/c128/2.html yourself]].
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* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' 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), ''waterfalls''[[note]] that don't cause any water damage to the books behind them![[/note]] the roots of TheWorldTree, and lots of {{booby trap}}s. [[http://www.mangafox.com/page/manga/read/71/mahou_sensei_negima/chapter.11056/page.14/ See]] [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v14/c126/14.html for]] [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v14/c128/2.html yourself]].
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* In the ''WebComic/TheAdventuresOfDoctorMcNinja'' arc "Futures Trading", the eponymous doctor uses a library of the printed out version of [[UpToEleven the entire Internet]], with the aid of a robot of Google, to help him with overcoming the villains' EvilPlan and StormingTheCastle. [[RefugeInAudacity Its that]] [[RuleOfFunny kind of]] [[RuleOfCool comic]].
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* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', there are two episodes dedicated to a library the size of a ''planet'', which has long since been abandoned due to an infestation of Vashta Nerada.
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** The TARDIS has been hinted to have an impressive library of its own, which is finally seen properly in the episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E10JourneyToTheCentreOfTheTardis Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]."
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* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' 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), ''waterfalls''[[note]] that don't cause any water damage to the books behind them![[/note]] the roots of TheWorldTree, and lots of booby traps. [[http://www.mangafox.com/page/manga/read/71/mahou_sensei_negima/chapter.11056/page.14/ See]] [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v14/c126/14.html for]] [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v14/c128/2.html yourself]].
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' features Voile, the Magical Library[[hottip:*: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 stage roughly five-minute-long aerial battle over the bookshelves traveling in one direction without ever reaching the end. The library is maintained by [[BadassBookworm 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 this have given her [[SquishyWizard anemia, asthma, and Vitamin A deficiency]], you are more than likely to find anything you could ever want in there ([[KleptomaniacHero Marisa]] sure does).
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* The Infinity Library of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', 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.
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* The Infinity Library of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', 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.
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' 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), ''waterfalls''[[note]] that don't cause any water damage to the books behind them![[/note]] the roots of TheWorldTree, and lots of booby traps. [[http://www.mangafox.com/page/manga/read/71/mahou_sensei_negima/chapter.11056/page.14/ See]] [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v14/c126/14.html for]] [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v14/c128/2.html yourself]].
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* The library of the Crystal Ballroom in ''{{Nexus}}'' contains all the historical memory of (at least the known) universe.
* Elder of the Universe and SilverSurfer foe, 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.
* ''Comicbook/{{Fables}}'' 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.
* The Library of Dream in ''Comicbook/TheSandman'' is full of those books that were conceived by their authors but never written or completed. This not only includes things like Creator/GKChesterton's ''The Man Who Was October'', or Creator/PGWodehouse's ''[[CanonWelding 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''. WordOfGod 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.
* ''Comicbook/{{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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* ''FanFic/TheNuptialverse'' has the [[AncientKeeper Keeper's]] library, which seems to be the sole location of her plane of existence. [[AkashicRecords There's a book for every sentient being who's ever lived, containing every single detail of their lives.]]
* The Imperial Archives in ''FanFic/LegendsOfEquestria'' 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 [[TechnologyMarchesOn being digitized and stored in a nearby server room]].
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* The towering fortress-library in ''Film/TheNameOfTheRose'' contains all the accumulated knowledge of ancient Europe (see Literature, below). [[spoiler:[[DownerEnding It burns down at the end]]]] due to the [[TakingYouWithMe bastard antagonist]], forcing [[SeanConnery William of Baskerville]] to make a [[MortonsFork tough decision]] about which books to take with him. Oh, and it's also a labyrinth full of [[SecretPath secret passageways]].
* There are a few super-libraries in the ''StarWars'' mythos: The Jedi library seen in the prequels; an enormous data collection belonging to a former smuggler; a whole planet is devoted to being a galactic library. All three of these are implied to be the sum of all knowledge in the galaxy (or damn near, at least)
** To the point where when, in ''AttackOfTheClones'', gravitational calculations prove that a planet MUST exist at a certain location, yet there is no record of such a planet, the librarian believes the library's records over the laws of physics. Just to drive home the point of how [[VestigialEmpire complacent]] the Old Republic had become.
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* The book ''Literature/TheCityOfDreamingBooks'' by German author Creator/WalterMoers 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.
* ''The Library of Babel'' a short story by JorgeLuisBorges. Interestingly, the library in Borges story is a lot less useful than most examples of this trope, because it is an infinitely large library that not only has every book ever, it contains every ''possible'' book. So yes, the true story of your own death is in there, but so is every conceivable ''false'' story of your own death, with nothing to distinguish them. Worse yet, the library is randomized, with no catalog or organization to help you find something specific. [[DeconstructedTrope And more than 99.9999% of the books are simply gibberish]]. When Borges first published the story, a friend pointed out to him that the vastness of the Library was unnecessary -- all that was needed was ''one'' book, with an infinite number of infinitesimally thin pages. Twenty years later he used the concept in another short story, "The Book of Sand".
* The ''[[TheRiftwarCycle 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.
* The Beast's library in RobinMcKinley's ''[[Literature/BeautyARetellingOfBeautyAndTheBeast Beauty]]''. Might not have all the books that will ever be written, but it certainly has books that haven't been written as of when the story occurs.
--> '''Beauty''': "RudyardKipling"? This is a ''name''?
* The Great Library of Pandathaway in the ''Literature/GuardiansOfTheFlame'' series appears to qualify -- though its librarians also charge ruinously high fees to actually ''find'' the information within its cavernous shelves and chambers.
* The Clayr's Great Library in Creator/GarthNix's ''Literature/OldKingdom'' series, which first shows up in ''Literature/{{Lirael}}'', is under a mountain and doesn't limit itself to just books: odds and ends like sealed Free Magic beings and chambers large enough that it takes ten minutes to walk through them that contain only a pond, a tree, loads and loads of flowers and a fake sky (this is underground, remember?) are hidden here and there. Working in the library is apparently dangerous enough that whole parties of armed librarians are required for trips into the lower levels, and all librarians are required to have various weapons as well as a whistle and a clockwork mouse that will raise an alarm in case of emergencies on their person.
* In ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'', Bastian creates a library with every story he has ever composed, for the benefit of a city of storytellers.
* The ''Literature/{{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 [[PortalNetwork 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 [[GrammarNazi 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 [[BoltOfDivineRetribution takes issue with something in its collection]]. It seems large but otherwise normal [[spoiler: until it is burning down and The Librarian pops in and out via L-Space to save some of the books.]]
** [[TheGrimReaper 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 ''{{Discworld/The Last Continent}}'' he is looking for information on the Discworld's version of [[DeathWorld Australia]], [=XXXX=]. He walks into the library and asks for information on the dangerous animals, and is [[RummageFail buried in books]]. He then changes the request to the ''non''-dangerous ones, and one sheet of paper floats down, reading "[[EverythingTryingToKillYou some of the sheep]]."
* The Galactic Library on Trantor, from Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''{{Foundation}}'' series, should count. [[spoiler: At least until it's sacked.]] Add in the 'finished' copy of the Encyclopedia Galactica which is used to 'provide' the chapter quotes, as the Encyclopedia project is intended as a compendium of human knowledge so it won't be forgotten, too.
* Classic Creator/HPLovecraft examples:
** 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.
** In HP Lovecraft's writing, some real world libraries also hold [[TomeOfEldritchLore tomes of Eldritch lore]]. The Necronomicon, one of the best known examples, can be found in the British Museum, the National Library of France, the Widener Library of Harvard University, and the University of Buenos Aires. Some of these (particularly the National Library of France) are so old and so large that they probably count as real life examples without the terrifying books which drive people mad. [[hottip:*: Then again, the National Library of France is where the original papers related to the Priory of Sion hoax were found, so it does contain written materials that have been shown to trigger delusions.]]
* ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' 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.[[OnceAnEpisode Every single book]] features a library of some sort which is plot important.
* A ShoutOut to this. The library of the abbey in ''Literature/TheNameOfTheRose''; though it does not literally contain every possible book, it is described as containing within it ''all the knowledge of medieval Europe,'' and entrance to it is forbidden. Also, the blind monk Jorge de Burgos is an obvious ShoutOut to Borges.
* The Archives of the University in ''[[TheKingkillerChronicle 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 TheBigBoard 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.
* The Great Library in the ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' books, which contains every book that will ever be written, and a few more besides.
* Occurs regularly as a location throughout Creator/GeorgeMacDonald's fiction, notably ''Phantastes,'' ''Lilith,'' and ''Alec Forbes''. Even in his realistic novels, the books in the library are definitely magical.
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* ''{{Warehouse 13}}'': Myka discovers that the eponymous [[SecretGovernmentWarehouse Warehouse]] also holds a massive library containing first editions of everything ever printed.
-->'''Pete:''' Does that include comic books?
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** 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 DianeDuane's ''Franchise/StarTrek'' 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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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' 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 [[MonsterClown 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 [[VastBureaucracy 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 [[MachineCult 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.
* The Library of Yves in the TabletopRPG ''TabletopGame/InNomine''. Slightly subverted in that Yves' Library is actually well-organized ... it's the sheer scale of its contents that can make a search take days without assistance. Also notable is that the Library includes not just every book that ever existed, but every book that its author never actually got around to writing. (Such as the scripts for all seven seasons of ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.)
* In ''{{Planescape}}'', Thoth's Library.
-->'''Magnum Opus:''' [[http://mimir.net/musee/thoth.html They say Thoth's Library holds all the books that have ever been written, or ever will be. Doesn't sound likely to me - in my experience, 'they' say many things which aren't true.]]
* The plane of Mirrodin from ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' gives us the Knowledge Pool at Lumengrid, home of an entire race of GadgeteerGenius [[BadassBookworm 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 concieviably possible.
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* The Duke's Archives, the personal collection of Duke Seath the Scaleless in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls''. It takes of multiple rather large rooms and an entire tower(that also doubles as a dungeon), and considering that Seath is the creator of [[BlackMagic sorcery]], they're no doubt on [[ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow rather dangerous subjects.]] As Big Hat Logan found out.
* The Library of the Ancients in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyV'' has an unbelievable number a books, including a large number which decide to attack the party. [[UndignifiedDeath Being killed by a book is not a good way to go.]]
* The Dark People from ''TheLongestJourney'' 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.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' features Voile, the Magical Library[[hottip:*: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 stage roughly five-minute-long aerial battle over the bookshelves traveling in one direction without ever reaching the end. The library is maintained by [[BadassBookworm 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 this have given her [[SquishyWizard anemia, asthma, and Vitamin A deficiency]], you are more than likely to find anything you could ever want in there ([[KleptomaniacHero Marisa]] sure does).
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': 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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* In ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'', 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.
* The final Episode of ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'' 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 [[spoiler:Lambda, Battler and Ange against Bern]] takes place here.
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* The Bibliothiki in ''WapsiSquare'' 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.
* DoubleSubverted in ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''. 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 [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=22 a single flimsy bookshelf with useless books.]] So the girls head to the [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=23 old part of the library]]... which ''is'' an imposing, spooky, silent, mazelike place.
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* In the ''AntiClicheAndMarySueEliminationSociety'', 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.
* The SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy library in the WhateleyUniverse isn't infinite, but it is enormous for a high school library, and contains lots of stuff human libraries shouldn't even know about, sealed off in private areas: alien books, CosmicHorrorStory books, ...
* The Wiki World (a reference to TheOtherWiki) of ''AHDotComTheSeries'', which is an AlternateUniverse Earth that has been wholly converted into a huge spherical space station dedicated to the preservation of all knowledge. So large that entire lost civilisations of "Edit Gangs" roam its abyssal reaches. Its rulers, the Wikimasters, govern it from an intimidating "Dark Cathedral". Subverted, however, when it turns out that in fact they're [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything all just a bunch of pathetic anime nerds]].
* The online story ''DominionAndDuchy'' 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 Library" in the desert in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' whose supernatural librarian, Wan Shi Tong, keeps humans outside because they [[HumansAreBastards have an annoying tendency to abuse his knowledge.]] The protagonists, after promising Wan Shi Tong that they were not going in the library with malicious intent, go up to the observatory and find the next eclipse -- but only because they're planning to launch an attack. Long story short, Wan Shi Tong overhears them and gets very, very mad.
--> "If you're going to lie to an all-knowing Knowledge-Spirit, you should at least put some effort into it."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{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, "[[ItsPersonal 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. (FridgeLogic: 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 -- on two disks. (Fiction and Nonfiction)
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* While nowhere near as well known as the library of Alexandria, the House of Wisdom, located in ancient Baghdad, was for its time the largest repository of knowledge in the world and actually held a great number of Greek and Roman translated pieces that may have originated from Alexandria. Unfortunately, it too was destroyed, in their case when the Mongols sacked the city.
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->''Everything would be in its blind volumes. Everything: [[YouCannotChangeTheFuture the detailed history]] of [[PropheciesAreAlwaysRight the future]], {{Aeschylus}}''' The Egyptians, ''the exact number of times that the waters of the Ganges have reflected the flight of a falcon, the [[TheGreatestHistoryNeverTold secret]] and true [[TheGloryThatWasRome nature]] of [[AncientRome Rome]], the encyclopedia Novalis would have constructed, my dreams and half-dreams at dawn on August 14, 1934, the proof of [[FermatsLastTheorem Pierre Fermat's theorem]], the [[LeftHanging unwritten]] [[CutShort chapters]] [[AuthorExistenceFailure of]]'' [[Literature.TheMysteryOfEdwinDrood Edwin Drood]], ''those same chapters translated into [[OlderThanDirt the language spoken]] by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garamantes the Garamantes]], the paradoxes Berkeley invented concerning Time but didn't publish, Urizen's books of iron, [[{{Doorstopper}} the]] [[APortraitOfTheArtistAsAYoungMan premature]] [[{{Ulysses}} epiphanies]] [[InnerMonologue of]] [[AuthorAvatar Stephen]] [[JamesJoyce Dedalus]], which would be meaningless before a cycle of a thousand years, the Gnostic Gospel of Basilides, [[MindControlMusic the song]] [[EnthrallingSiren the sirens]] [[CompellingVoice sang]], the complete catalog of the Library, the proof of the inaccuracy of that catalog.''
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->''Everything would be in its blind volumes. Everything: [[YouCannotChangeTheFuture the detailed history]] of [[PropheciesAreAlwaysRight the future]], {{Aeschylus}}''' The Egyptians, ''the exact number of times that the waters of the Ganges have reflected the flight of a falcon, the [[TheGreatestHistoryNeverTold secret]] and true [[TheGloryThatWasRome nature]] of [[AncientRome Rome]], the encyclopedia Novalis would have constructed, my dreams and half-dreams at dawn on August 14, 1934, the proof of [[FermatsLastTheorem Pierre Fermat's theorem]], the [[LeftHanging unwritten]] [[CutShort chapters]] [[AuthorExistenceFailure of]]'' [[Literature.TheMysteryOfEdwinDrood Edwin Drood]], ''those same chapters translated into [[OlderThanDirt the language spoken]] by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garamantes the Garamantes]], the paradoxes Berkeley invented concerning Time but didn't publish, Urizen's books of iron, [[{{Doorstopper}} the]] [[APortraitOfTheArtistAsAYoungMan premature]] [[{{Ulysses}} epiphanies]] [[InnerMonologue of]] [[AuthorAvatar Stephen]] [[JamesJoyce Dedalus]], which would be meaningless before a cycle of a thousand years, the Gnostic Gospel of Basilides, [[MindControlMusic the song]] [[EnthrallingSiren the sirens]] [[CompellingVoice sang]], the complete catalog of the Library, the proof of the inaccuracy of that catalog.''
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Often times this is guarded by a MagicLibrarian or other force. 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 BattleOfWits. If you're lucky, you'll find what you need. If you're not, it may turn out to be a BlankBook 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 HighFantasy 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.
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