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11	->''"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."''
12	-->-- '''Creator/JorgeLuisBorges'''
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14	A magical library is a mystical library that is explicitly magical or is infused with magic. These libraries tend to be small and hidden in a remote area. They usually contain dangerous and forbidden spells, arcane {{Spell Book}}s and priceless {{Ancient Artifact}}s and {{MacGuffin}}s. They also may have supernatural books such as TomesOfProphecyAndFate and [[TomeOfEldritchLore Tomes of Eldritch Lore]]. The library also might be home to monsters, creatures and {{Magic Librarian}}s that are there to protect the library. The library might be quite old, and may even be as old as the Universe, itself.
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16	Because these things are valuable -- and it would be disastrous if these items were to fall into the wrong hands -- these libraries are usually almost impossible to find without a special map and are well-guarded. The objects that allow the library's location to be found are sometimes scattered across the world. The heroes and villains alike might have to engage in a GottaCatchThemAll plot in order to have access to the library's valuable information.
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18	If the magical library is easily accessible for most people, it's usually part of a school. The protagonists may regularly visit the school library to find out how to solve a problem or gain information about the current plot. Characters who are a bit more rebellious might simply steal from the library instead, setting up the main conflict.
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20	This type of library tends to appear mostly in {{fantasy}}, UrbanFantasy, and works that have a FantasyKitchenSink.
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22	Compare the GreatBigLibraryOfEverything and TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday. Contrast SecretGovernmentWarehouse (both are repositories of strange and/or dangerous items, but the Secret Government Warehouse is ''never'' interested in sharing) and SpookySilentLibrary (which needn't be magical -- examples can overlap, though).
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26	!!Examples
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30	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
31	* The Library of Spirits ("Fantasy Library") in the ''[[Anime/ReadOrDie Read or Dream]]'' manga has every book ever written, as reading material for the dead. However, it appears on Earth for 1 hour every 10 years, and the living may borrow one book for a 10 year period.
32	* The appropriately-named Mysterious Library from ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'', which contains every fairy tale known to man and can be reached through a combination of book shuffling on any bookshelf.
33	* The series [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/LightNovel/InAnotherWorldWithMySmartphone In AnotherWorld With My Smartphone]] has the Library of Babylon is among the 9 floating islands left for Touya by Regina Babylon.
34	* The Great Library in ''VisualNovel/YamiToBoushiToHonNoTabibito'' consists of books that ''contain'' every single world of the multiverse down to the smallest detail. And it also comes with {{Magic Librarian}}s.
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37	[[folder:Comic Books]]
38	* In ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'', the Library of Time in Shangri-La can magically summon up any book ever printed in all of history.
39	* Lucien's library in ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989''. As Dream's domain includes everything conceived by the imagination, it has many books which were never written down, perhaps just coming to people as idle fancies and being immediately forgotten about.
40	* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Over time the records of the Themysciran library become a treasure trove of information on the magical, historical and scientific. The more potentially dangerous magical records are kept in a medium that renders them little more than colored blocks without the proper means of reading and are protected by three magic using guards. This gets very little attention, but ComicBook/WonderGirl (Cassie) finds the protective measures make her attempts to figure out if Zeus really is her father quite difficult.
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43	[[folder:Fan Works]]
44	* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'': It has the traditional Hogwarts library, as well as Strange's occasionally alluded to library. The latter is said to contain [[TomeOfEldritchLore books]] and technological treatises (even {{Magitek}}) from more or less literally everywhere; Alexandria, Atlantis, Asgard... being an immortal time-traveller, pack-rat, and master thief (as in 'steals the Tesseract when he gets bored'), he has picked up a ''lot''. Some of them are ones he's written himself. It's also implied to be something of an armoury, and given that with Strange, the question of location is not just 'where' but 'when', he's more or less the only one with access to it. As a result, everyone ''immediately'' takes notice when he notes that he's releasing copies of some of his collection.
45	* ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone'': The library in Tevri'ed, to a degree; it has dangerous [[TomeOfEldritchLore tomes of arcane lore]] in the guarded basement, but it is otherwise a large, accessible, well-attended civic place with ordinary civilian librarians.
46	* ''WebVideo/WitchCraftSMP'': The Enchanted Library contains biographies of every known 'Minecraft character', explaining their backstories from life to death, including those from ''beyond'' the [=WitchCraft=] SMP. The contents of the books can only be modified with "the rainbow crystal-encased scripture table" in the library. The Welcome Guide of the library explicitly states that travellers should be careful with what they do with the knowledge contained in the library and [[RewritingReality the power that comes with it]], and advises against reading one's own biography… lest they GoMadFromTheRevelation.
47	* ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'': It's not a classic library of tomes and scrolls, but the Honden of Avarice is a metaphysical location containing records of every time any being has called upon the orange light of avarice since the beginning of the universe. Visiting it safely requires either thorough understanding of one's own desires, or magical shielding; otherwise, the visitor's mind may be overwhelmed. Paul accesses it regularly, both for information and to exploit it as an ExtradimensionalShortcut, allowing him to teleport to the person responsible for a particular desire.
48	* ''Fanfic/Batman1939'': The library at Shadowcrest is a huge repository of mystical knowledge. Untamed areas are liable to aggress on intruders despite the house spirit's interference.
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51	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
52	* Occurs in ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'', just replace "magic" with "TimeTravel". Crossing a black hole's event horizon left the hero in a four-dimensional representation of every moment his daughter's room/library ever had.
53	* ''Film/TheLibrarian'' films are about a librarian of this type of library. Not only does it contain legendary and magical books, but also all the world's greatest and most dangerous treasures.
54	* ''Film/MirrorMask'' features a magical library where books fly around and have to be caught with a net.
55	* In the movie ''Film/WhatDreamsMayCome'' there is a library. It is massive and there is no floor, only water. People just fly to get the books. Also, it is in Heaven. In the [[FilmOfTheBook original novel]], it's explained that every kind of knowledge is available in this Library, including when someone will die. Also, it contains every book ever written, including the ones that haven't been written ''yet''. People who are still alive can [[OutOfBodyExperience visit the Library in their dreams]], but very few remember upon waking.
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58	[[folder:Literature]]
59	* ''Literature/AnnalsOfTheWesternShore'': The library in the Oracle House in ''Voices''. Its doorway is a blank wall opened with some magical gestures, and it's protected by Ansul's gods (they prevented the Waylord from betraying its location during his long torture by the Alds), plus [[spoiler:it houses the Oracle of Ansul ''way'' in the back]].
60	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''
61	** The library of Unseen University leads to other dimensions thanks to the sheer weight of accumulated knowledge distorting the space-time continuum. This is known as L-Space. The library itself is pretty much a universe of its own with all the magical books, library creatures such as the [[GrammarNazi thesaurus]] or the kickstool-crab, and tribes of lost research students inside. The books meanwhile are chained to the shelves; not, as in medieval Roundworld libraries, to protect the books themselves, but to protect the readers.
62	*** It's also stated that ''any'' large collection of books, magical or not, distorts the space-time continuum. After all, [[FourTermsFallacy knowledge equals power equals energy equals matter equals mass.]]
63	** There's also Death's library of biographies, one for everyone in the world, where those for the living are still in the process of writing themselves.
64	* ''Literature/DoomValleyPrepSchool'': The school library is huge, and considering taking four right turns leads to an entirely different part of the library, it's definitely an eldritch location. It also has books on magic, and books that are magical. One section of the library is flooded by a leaking tome on the Elemental Plane of Water. It has an army of demons and angels focused on knowledge caring for the books. There are also monsters wandering around, although some of them may just be there to read the books.
65	* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': The school library is this, especially the restricted section. In the [[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone first book]], when Harry is trying to find out who Nicholas Flamel is, he sneaks in, he opens a book, and it starts screaming at him, attracting the caretaker.
66	* ''Literature/TheInvisibleLibrary'' exists on a separate plane of existence and the {{Magic Librarian}}s do not age while they are there. They are sent out to all kinds of parallel universes to acquire books that are unique to those universes, sometimes by illegal means. Taking these books to the Library helps to stabilize reality in their home universes, defending the humans there from being conquered by the forces of Order (dragons) or Chaos (faerie).
67	* 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.
68	* The title story in Kelly Link's ''Literature/MagicForBeginners'' centers around an irregularly broadcast [[ShowWithinAShow TV show]] called "The Library", which takes place in one of these.
69	* ''Literature/TheMagicTreehouse'', whose books can transport the reader to the event described.
70	* The Library of the Clayr from the ''Literature/OldKingdom'' series. It's carved out of a glacier and is the largest repository of magic books and monsters around. It's kept in order by CrazyPrepared {{Magic Librarian}}s.
71	* ''Literature/SchooledInMagic'': The school library is filled with books of (and book on) magic. Emily spends a great deal of time in there for both classes as well as personal study. Eventually she even begins working as an aide to the librarian. The punishment for making noise in the library is an hour as a stone statue. This punishment is magically enforced and automatic.
72	* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
73	** ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'' has a visit to Nespis 8, a Jedi-aligned SpaceStation that has a massive old library, old enough to be stocked with ''[[NoPaperFuture paper books]]''. [[spoiler: The library was actually burned years ago, and re-stocked with fakes that drain LifeEnergy.]]
74	* In ''Literature/TheWardstoneChronicles'', it's implied that all good spooks have a library with information on denizens of the dark and how to defeat them. We only specifically hear of John Gregory's and Bill Arkwright's, though.
75	* ''Literature/TheZombieKnight'' has the Library of Erudition, a vast and [[GeniusLoci semi-living]] compendium of knowledge, still standing despite being in the [[DeathWorld death continent]] of Exoltha. It has books on every subject, but has been known to [[YourSoulIsMine devour the souls and knowledge]] of those who take any of them without the [[MagicLibrarian magically bound Keeper's]] permission.
76	* In the Hell’s Library series by AJ Hackwith, there is a library in hell which houses unwritten books. The {{Magic Librarian}}s are damned souls that could have been great authors but never fulfilled their potential. They are charged with making sure that the unwritten stories don’t escape the collective unconsciousness and enter reality.
77	* In the ''Literature/HouseOfDoors'', the centerpiece of the titular House is its Library, the home to the spell books of magical lore that separates Keyholders from normal people.
78	* ''Literature/TheScholomance'': The titular WizardingSchool's library is even more of an EldritchLocation than the rest of the place, rearranging itself according to dream logic and its own desires for what the students will find within. Then there are the shelves upon shelves of {{Spell Book}}s, each of which has its own power and autonomy.
79	* The titular location in ''Literature/TheStarlessSea'' is this, an entire underground world's worth of magical library with stories inscribed on everything and recorded in every way possible.
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82	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
83	* In ''Series/{{Angel}}'' the evil law firm Wolfram & Hart has an enormous archive of supernatural info.
84	** The firm's "Files and Records" department has 35 full filing cabinets devoted to Angel/Angelus alone. The employee there seems to embody the department, with all the info stored in her brain.
85	** In a more space-efficient version, they later use [[http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Wolfram_%26_Hart_Source_Books some enchanted books]] with which you can call up anything in their archive.
86	* The Sunnydale High Library from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', as it's run by a Watcher and directly over the Hellmouth (the heroes knew the school was built on it, but even Giles didn't know it opened right there). And it has a ton of weird magic books that Snyder totally doesn't get being there, naturally.
87	* As well as hosting a vast collection of magical books and objects including a ladder that moves on its own accord, the Library of Magic in ''Series/TheBureauOfMagicalThings'' also functions as a mini-school for a group of young elves and fairies. It is hidden behind a book store owned by TheMentor.
88	* ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'': Philip is connected to the Gaia Library, the complete body of all the Earth's knowledge, which is visualized as a WhiteVoidRoom filled with bookshelves that appear and disappear according to keywords he vocalizes. Being one half of a detective agency, this is an invaluable ability. However, any information pertaining to himself and his origins appears as books with all the pages torn out.
89	* ''[[Series/TheLibrarians2014 The Librarians]]'' has the same Library as [[Film/TheLibrarian the film series it's based on]], though its nature is expanded upon. In addition to holding many magical books and artifacts, it's also sentient on some level, BiggerOnTheInside (due to being housed in a separate dimension), and capable of [[ChaosArchitecture re-arranging rooms at will]]. At the start of the first season, the main Library is cut off from this world, leaving only the Annex for the protagonists to use. Flynn, the Librarian, spends the season trying to bring it back.
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92	[[folder:Podcasts]]
93	* ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'' has several episodes involving books sporting the bookplate “From the Library of Jurgen Leitner”, which seem to be very nastily magical if not actively malevolent. The library itself was burnt down decades ago, but that doesn’t stop its books from causing trouble. [[spoiler:Jurgen himself later reveals that none of the books were made by him, but were collected into his library in an attempt to seal their evil away (and branded with his name as a vanity). Other supernatural monsters took offense and attacked the library, scattering the books back into the world.]]
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96	[[folder:Religion & Mythology]]
97	* The AkashicRecords are a sort of celestial repository of all knowledge within {{Theosophy}} and some of its offshoots, including much of the NewAge movement.
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100	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
101	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
102	** The Library of Candlekeep in the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has shades of this, most notably the 'arcane knowledge' part; you must donate a book to the library in order to gain access, and most of the people who wish to do so are mages who donate low-level spellbooks.
103	** In the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting, the lich-king Azalin has a library which houses the self-updating life stories of every sentient being who has ever been born in his domain of Darkon, or who's entered it and stayed long enough to lose all memory of their previous life. Destroying your own book is one of the few ways to recover from Darkon's insidious IdentityAmnesia effect.
104	* ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'' from Creator/WhiteWolf had a stat for arcane libraries.
105	* The ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'' has quite a few:
106	** The biggest is the Athenaeum, a domain of TheUnderworld with a copy of ''everything'' in history that's been written and then lost, from cave paintings to blog posts. On the other hand, it's an unmappable EldritchLocation with no indexing system, an owl infestation, and guardians who really hate mages. There's also the matter of arranging a trip to the Underworld that isn't one-way.
107	** ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'':
108	*** The PointBuildSystem has a [[SkillScoresAndPerks Merit]] for characters who want their own arcane library, each dot representing an area of magical lore.
109	*** One of the [[MagicalSociety magical orders]], the Mysterium, dedicates itself to filling and maintaining magical archives, usually with [[SecretGovernmentWarehouse vaults of magic artifacts]] attached. These Athenaea can grant extra benefits, like an XP discount to learn new rote spells.
110	** ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'' has some options for adding fey magic to a library, including archives stored in [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles talkative skulls]] and books that multiply when nobody's watching.
111	* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' has many such libraries in its background. The biggest and most extensive is that maintained by the High Elf Loremasters of Hoeth in the White Tower, but each of the Imperial Colleges of Magic has its own library, and most wizards and sorcerers from the more civilized races will tend to keep their own. The realm of the Chaos God Tzeentch in the Realm of Chaos is often perceived as including a vast library, and he has even created two special Blue Horror daemons - the Blue Scribes - to traverse the multiverse and copy down knowledge of all the spells in existence for his collection.
112	* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has the Black Library of the Eldar - an ancient craftworld adrift in the Webway between reality and the Warp. It contains the race's gathered knowledge of Chaos and Sorcery, and is maintained in order to better understand and combat the machinations of the Infernal Powers. Ahzek Ahriman of the Thousand Sons is particularly obsessed with the Library.
113	* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh TCG''
114	** [[https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/The_Grand_Spellbook_Tower The Grand Spellbook Tower]] is an educational research facility that has produced many excellent sorcerers who specialize in a variety of fields from means of combat to technological developments. Its library has a great collection of many "Spellbooks" with knowledge collected throughout the ages. A small portion of these books are now available to the general Spellcaster public.
115	** Earlier on, circa ''Magician's Force'' (''Champion of Black Magic'' in the OCG), we have the [[https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Royal_Magical_Library Royal Magical Library]], a level 4 [[StoneWall 0 ATK/2000 DEF]] LIGHT Spellcaster-type monster that gets a Spell Counter for each spell card played and not negated (up to 3); once you max out on the Spell Counters, you can discard all three to draw a card.
116	* In ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica'', magical reference materials are a vital part of every Covenant, as the Order of Hermes is founded on a [[FantasticScience unified theory of magic]] that they meticulously curate and develop. There are extensive rules for researching, writing, and studying magical volumes over the course of seasons, and the Order's founding Covenant of Durenmar has the most extensive magical library on the planet.
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119	[[folder:Video Games]]
120	* ''VideoGame/AlterEgo2018'': Every literary classic seems to be available in Es's library, with several revolving around self-discovery or otherwise being heavily tinted by introspection. There are also some non-fiction books and even a few magic books (like the one whose ending changes every time you read it).
121	* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'': Candlekeep has an enormous library of spellbooks and histories which are maintained and patrolled by a fanatical order of monks, as well as having at least one backup copy of the entire library in another dimension.
122	* ''VideoGame/BungoToAlchemist'': The Imperial Library, the base of operation of writers and other important characters. It is staffed with people with magical powers and populated by deceased famous writers who have been brought BackFromTheDead who can enter the world of books to fight evil forces trying to corrupt it.
123	* In the ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper'' series, every [[ADungeonIsYou dungeon]] needs a library for minions to research and improve new spells. It's one of the first rooms you learn to construct, and academically inclined minions like Warlocks and Vampires get very grumpy if you don't provide adequate library space.
124	* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, the realm of Hermaeus Mora, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of [[KeeperOfForbiddenKnowledge Knowledge]], is Apocrypha, which crosses this trope, a GreatBigLibraryOfEverything, and an extreme EldritchLocation. It is said to contain all knowledge, kept within the tomes on its shelves. The sky is an illuminating green in color and it is covered by a sea of roiling acidic waters. Some areas of Apocrypha are consumed by a darkness which kills any mortal who tries to enter it. The realm is haunted by the ghosts of mortals forever searching for knowledge, and is maintained by Mora's servants, the Seekers and Lurkers. You get a chance to visit it in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'''s ''Dragonborn'' DLC.
125	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' gives us the Library of the Ancients, where there are possessed books, a book split in two by the splitting of the worlds, and a book that burns other books...
126	* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'' has the Eyeglass Island Library in ''Ages''. In the past it's locked by a key, staffed by sages, and the magical fairy powder inside is impossible to retrieve. In the present it's just a regular library. Link cannot retrieve the fairy powder in the past until he makes a StableTimeLoop.
127	* The titular ''VideoGame/LibraryOfRuina'' is explicitly supernatural, housing seemingly endless amounts of books spread over 10 Floors. What especially makes it supernatural is its way of gaining certain books - guests are invited to it, and if they cannot overcome its 'ordeal' (the reception is a battle), they are turned into books themselves. The librarians actively use these books to become stronger, as well as fighting [[EldritchAbomination Abnormalities]] and harnessing their powers. The people falling in the Library causes many others to follow, by the promise that they can take any book they want after the ordeal. [[spoiler: The Library is actually an EldritchLocation as it is Angela's own E.G.O. The mastermind is Carmen, who has been purposefully bending fate so (i.e letting Philip escape and rewiring his emergency button to lead to the 8'o Clock Circus instead) to archieve her own goals. In reality, a copy gets made of the guests (who are put into a dormant state) as soon as they step inside, so they do not actually become books themselves]].
128	* The library in ''VideoGame/ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis'', located at a school for alchemists, is massive enough to serve as ''two'' dungeons. Of course, it's also home to undead blobs, sorceresses, malicious fairies, fallen angels, and ghosts, including [[CuteGhostGirl Pamela]] and her [[SealedEvilInATeddyBear Teddy]]. Students beware.
129	* In ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'', there's Voile, the Magical Library. Maintained by [[BadassBookworm Patchouli Knowledge]], who spends her days locked up inside adding to the already-massive cache of knowledge and {{Spell Book}}s. While 100 straight years of this have [[SquishyWizard given her anemia, asthma, and Vitamin A deficiency]], you are more than likely to find anything you could ever want in there ([[KleptomaniacHero Marisa]] sure does).
130	* The Shattered Library in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition''. It is an ancient elven library that contained the collective knowledge of their people until it fell into disarray [[spoiler: when the Veil was formed, separating the Fade and the material world.]]
131	* ''VideoGame/NexusClash'' has angelic Vaults of Enlightenment and demonic Damned Libraries, which contain holy and unholy books that are violently opinionated about who has the right to read them. They are the most valuable (and often the largest) buildings on their respective planes and more than a few wars have been fought over control of one.
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134	[[folder:Web Comics]]
135	* ''Webcomic/CrystalHeroes'' features a magical section of an otherwise ordinary library that functions like a typical RPG dungeon. It was apparently originally designed as a combat trial for graduate students, and contains high-level material they need for their classes, but nowadays you can just request a team to retrieve a book for you. This is necessary because the library is full of monsters and puzzles not due to disrepair, but deliberately put there as a challenge. The main characters head into the dungeon to retrieve a book accidentally placed there due to a clerical error.
136	* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', there exists a [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2017-04-05 library in Egypt entwined in mortal destiny]] and [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2018-05-04 magic]]. Beyond its guardian and what appears to be a [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2017-04-14 sitting room]] though, the library itself is never seen.
137	* ''Webcomic/{{VHV}}'': The first arc is set off by a group of adventurers getting paid with an ancient artifact that gives access to a planet-sized library staffed by fae and filled with books from the goddess of knowledge.
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140	[[folder:Websites]]
141	* ''Website/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1726 SCP-1726 ("The Library and the Pillar")]]. The Library has many volumes of philosophy, theology, and history from cultures that are mythological in the real world (such as Shambhalla (sic), Lemuria, and Mu). It has animated statues that can speak various languages and act as guides for visitors.
142	* ''Website/TheWanderersLibrary'': An offshoot of the Website/SCPFoundation verse, it's a library located outside of conventional reality houses numerous books of secret lore.
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145	[[folder:Western Animation]]
146	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': The library of Wan Shi Tong contains vast amounts of knowledge, and the curator is an immortal spirit. Originally located in the Spirit World, it moved to the Si Wong Desert. Eventually, the library returned to the Spirit World, following two attempts by humans to use knowledge acquired within to defeat their enemies.
147	* The fairies own a magical library in ''WesternAnimation/BenAndHollysLittleKingdom'' from which they store, among other things, a talking recipe book.
148	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'': The Trolberg library has a secret room filled with magic books, and serves as a front for the Witches Tower. The librarian, Kaisa, is a witch herself.
149	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' made it the focus as a [[VanishingVillage vanishing castle]] that only appeared during the full moon and disappeared at dawn. If you don't make it out before then you go along with it and become bound as its guardian, forced to transform and attack any uninvited guests.
150	* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' magic is actually a common subject for {{Unicorn}} ponies to study and there are several of these:
151	** Before it was destroyed in the season 4 finale, Twilight Sparkle lived in the Golden Oak Library, which has among other things a spell to give a non-{{Pegasus}} pony wings, a spell to let them walk on clouds, and a book on how to deal with rampant clones from the Mirror Pond.
152	** The ruins of the Castle of the Two Sisters still holds an extensive library. Apart from the mundane but plot-important Diary of the Two Sisters it also holds a genuine TomeOfEldritchLore in the form of the ''Inspiration Manifestation'' which holds a spell that can turn creative thoughts instantly into reality.
153	** The Canterlot royal library has a section dedicated to Starswirl the Bearded, one of the most gifted unicorns in the history of Equestria. One of the scrolls stored there has a spell that lets the caster TimeTravel one week into the past.
154	** Sunburst is a unicorn whose special talent is working in a magical library. Among other things, he can procure a spell that can restore a broken artifact and a spell that keeps the latent powers of a baby {{Alicorn}} in check, despite the birth of an alicorn having been a unique event.
155	** Even a small town like Hope Hollow has a library with an extensive magical section, in which Twilight among other things finds several different forms of DispelMagic. Unfortunately for her, none of them are helpful in fixing the problem.
156	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'': Papa Smurf belongs to the Wizard's Library, which contains "the most powerful spells in all the world" as he puts it. (You must be certified by the Board of Wizards to get a library card, as he tells Greedy, who expresses interest in reading the magical cookbooks the place has.) Unfortunately, in that same episode, the villain [[EvilSorcerer Nemesis]] breaks into the place's forbidden vault of black magic, [[ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow the Archives of Evil.]]
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