Bibliotheca

Yes, this one is a real word according to Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Borrowed from Latin, this word (and its cognates like the French bibliothèque and Spanish biblioteca) means "library" in modern English. Libraries are quiet havens for enriching my knowledge, but they can be restrictive with the amount of materials that I can find and borrow. They can range from a small bookshelf at home to a large building in a major city. While I have never visited a public library before, I have been to some private ones within school grounds. During my elementary and high school years, I read a lot of reference books inside that quiet room (especially the 1979 edition of the World Book Encyclopedia and its two extra Australasian volumes). I remembered one of my teachers saying that I almost finished the entire collection at my small, local school library. In reality, I did not even finish every single book there. During my university years, I had access not only to one, but…