library (v.): no online hits

[victor steinbok]

There are two possible meanings--to research something in a library (like
"to google") and to file something in a library (like "to catalog"). The
latter may have some appearances in programming jargon (to create a library
subroutine), but I have not researched this possibility yet.

VS-)

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Damien Hall <D.Hall at kent.ac.uk> wrote:

>
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> Heard tonight in the BBC's _Fake or Fortune_, a reality-TV series about
> tracing the origins and artists of oil paintings that come to auction with
> some doubt as to their provenance:
>
> 'You have to library all the evidence, library the DNA.'
>
> This was spoken by a very Received Pronunciation art expert (Philip Mould),
> and from context (and pretty obviously) means 'do research about', 'do due
> diligence regarding'.  It's not in the OED or MW online, and there are no
> Google or Google Books hits (at least, not in the first few pages of results
> on "library the evidence" and "library the DNA", all of which have this
> sequence of words over a sentence- or clause-break).
>
> The cite is in the sentence beginning at 23'05" in the programme, which is
> available here:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0125by8
>
> until next Sunday (17 July) (though it may only be available in the UK).
>
> Probably a nonce usage at this stage, given the lack of evidence of other
> hits, but certainly worth noting just in case!
>
> Damien

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