Template:Infobox library

Infobox library

Items collected	{{{items_collected}}}
Size	{{{collection_size}}}
Population served	{{{pop_served}}}
Members	{{{members}}}
Staff	{{{num_employees}}}

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Usage

To use this infobox, copy the below to the top of the page describing the library and complete the relevant fields.

{{Infobox library
| library_name       = 
| name_en            = 
| library_logo       = 
| image              = 
| caption            = 
| country            = 
| type               = 
| scope              = 
| established        = 
| ref_legal_mandate  = 
| location           = 
| coordinates        = 
| branch_of          = 
| num_branches       = 
| items_collected    = 
| collection_size    = 
| criteria           = 
| legal_deposit      = 
| req_to_access      = 
| annual_circulation = 
| pop_served         = 
| members            = 
| budget             = 
| director           = 
| num_employees      = 
| website            = 
| phone_num          = 
| references         = 
}}

Parameters

library_name

Designed for the original name of the library. With libraries in multilingual countries, add the other official names, preceded by '<br/>= '. With libraries having a name in a non-Latin script, use the original name in its script, followed by '<br/>' and its transliteration between parentheses.

name_en

Library name in English. Prefer the English name that the library may use itself instead of a literal translation. A redundancy with the page title is likely but does not matter in this case.

library_logo

Use the Image syntax and specify the size if needed.

image

File name; the template normally takes care of the sizing.

caption

Description of the image above.

country

To be omitted when the country name appears in the library name (original or in English).

type

Prefer denominations leading to an existing page describing the type of library, such as Academic library, National library, Public library, Special library etc. Should be omitted when the relevant word is already present in the library's name.

scope

To be used if a library is specialized in a particular domain but which is not reflected in its name.

established

Foundation year.

ref_legal_mandate

Designed for referencing the law or decree establishing the library and defining its mandate.

location

Normally just town and, where appropriate, province. A full address could be entered for libraries having no website of their own. Avoid redundancies, e.g. repeating the country if it is already mentioned in the 'country' field or in the library's name.

coordinates

Entered with a tag {{coord|[deg]|[min]|[sec]|[N/S]|[deg]|[min]|[sec]|[E/W]|display=inline,title}}. With this code, the coordinates will also appear on the top of the page (but this redundancy is not considered problematic). Remove ",title" from the "display" parameter to omit the display of the coordinates on the top right.

branch_of

Designed for libraries that are known enough to justify an entry in WP but have little or no autonomy, being a branch of another (larger) library.

num_branches

Number of branches, not counting the headquarters, followed by their location between parentheses.

The header 'Collection' will appear only if at least one of the 4 fields below contains data.

items_collected

Allows the specification of the kinds of documents acquired by the library. Prefer denominations having their own page.

collection_size

It makes reading easier to round numbers to 2-3 significant figures and abbreviate millions by an unspaced 'M'.

criteria

Allows to specify the kind of documents the library acquires, be it in its legal mandate or its policy.

legal_deposit

Intended for national libraries, to specify whether they can acquire material through legal deposit, copyright legislation or other kind of agreement.

The header 'Access and use' will appear only if at least one of the 4 fields below contains data.

req_to_access

Allows to specify the conditions to be met for accessing the collections, such as residence, age, membership of a specific community etc.

annual_circulation

Number of lent or used items followed by the period concerned, preferably the most recent past year, between parentheses.

pop_served

Allows to specify the number of potential users when the library serves a specific group, be it by area of residence, age, membership etc. Can be omitted when the circle of potential users is vaguely defined, e.g. for national libraries which, as generally last resource library for national material, may serve the entire world. It makes reading easier to round numbers to 2-3 significant figures and abbreviate millions by an unspaced 'M'.

members

Number of registered users. It makes reading easier to round numbers to 2-3 significant figures.

The header 'Other information' will appear only if at least one of the 5 fields below contains data.

budget

Annual budget with specification of the currency, followed by the year concerned (ideally the current one) between parentheses. It makes reading easier to round numbers to 2-3 significant figures, abbreviate millions by an unspaced 'M' and provide the equivalent in US dollars between parentheses.

director

Name of the director. Should be preceded by 'Mr.' or 'Ms.' since first names may be either used by both sexes or unidentifiable by many readers. Unnecessary though for people for whose a page exists in Wikipedia. When a name is transliterated, provide the name in its original script between parentheses. Add the year of the appointment between parentheses. Adding academic titles (e.g. PhD, MA, MLib etc.) is optional.

num_employees

Number of employees, ideally followed by the number of full-time equivalents (input: [[Full-time_equivalent|FTE]]). It makes reading easier to round numbers to 2-3 significant figures.

website

If the website has a home page in English, link directly to it. Otherwise, specify the language(s) in which the website is.

phone_num

Reserved for libraries having no website. It will only appear if the field 'website' is empty.

references

References used specifically to populate infobox.

Microformat

The HTML markup produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the place-name and location parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue articles across Wikipedia, or via a browser tool operated by a person, to (for example) add the subject to an address book. Within the hCard is a Geo microformat, which additionally makes the coordinates (latitude & longitude) parsable, so that they can be, say, looked up on a map, or downloaded to a GPS unit. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.

Sub-templates

If the place or venue has "established", "founded", "opened" or similar dates, use {{start date}} for the earliest of those dates unless the date is before 1583 CE.

If it has a URL, use {{URL}}.

Please do not remove instances of these sub-templates.

Classes

hCard uses HTML classes including:

• adr
• agent
• category
• county-name
• extended-address
• fn
• label
• locality
• nickname
• note
• org
• region
• street-address
• uid
• url
• vcard

Geo is produced by calling {{coord}}, and uses HTML classes:

• geo
• latitude
• longitude

Please do not rename or remove these classes nor collapse nested elements which use them.

Precision

When giving coordinates, please use an appropriate level of precision. Do not use {{coord}}'s |name= parameter.