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This is helpful...
https://capitalizemytitle.com/ufaqs/is-library-capitalized/
On 1/13/2022 3:26 PM, Cathrina Skov wrote:
> Hi Pam,
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> So glad you asked this question because I struggle with it myself. I'm always tempted to write "Library" because the smaller case "library" just doesn't feel right. I've had people tell me that upper-case "Library" is all right because I'm referring to a specific library. I think in a legal document this would be the case.
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> However, despite my sentiments, the lower-case "library" is correct. If it were the Soldiers Memorial School, you wouldn't refer to it as "School."
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> I'd be interested in what the consensus is.
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> Best regards,
> Cathrina Skov
> Waldoboro Public Library
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [MELIBS-L] Capitalization
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> Okay - here is one of my pet peeves - but let's see what the consensus is..
> ;-)
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> When I'm writing a report, for example, and I first use Soldiers Memoria Library, after which I refer to it as (the "library" or the "Library" ?) Upper case l here or lower case ?
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> Thank you !!
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> -Pam
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Andrea DeBiase
Library Director
Carrabassett Valley Public Library
3209 Carrabassett Dr #3
Carrabassett Valley ME 04947
PHONE: 207-237-3535
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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