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At the same time many developers worked on the idea of multi-tier programs, in which a "display" running on a desktop computer would use the services of a mainframe or minicomputer for data storage or processing. For instance, a program on a GUI-based computer would send messages to a minicomputer to return small samples of a huge dataset for display. Remote procedure calls already handled these tasks, but there was no standard RPC system. Most compiled languages have a standard library, although programmers can also create their own custom libraries. Most modern software systems provide libraries that implement the majority of the system services. Such libraries have organized the services which a modern application requires.

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Three active specialized Help Desks have been set up to provide in-depth reference and research support. Electronic form, libraries no longer have to own an article or a certain piece of statistical information, for example, to obtain it quickly for a user. On the other hand, members of the information industry seem to be offering alternatives to libraries. A student with her own computer can now go directly to an on-line service to locate, order, and receive a copy of an article without ever leaving her home. Input into the design of the prototype was solicited through a consultative process that involved UNESCO, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions , and individuals and institutions in more than forty countries.

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Private or personal libraries made up of written books appeared in classical Greece in the 5th century BC. In the 6th century, at the very close of the Classical period, the great libraries of the Mediterranean world remained those of Constantinople and Alexandria. The services that libraries offer are variously described as library services, information services, or the combination "library and information services", although different institutions and sources define such terminology differently. Linux shared libraries are similar to the dynamic link libraries of Windows. The system stores libfoo.a and libfoo.so files in directories such as /lib, /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib.

In some older environments such as 16-bit Windows or MPE for the HP 3000, only stack-based data was allowed in shared-library code, or other significant restrictions were placed on shared-library code. All of the modules required by a program are sometimes statically linked and copied into the executable file. This process, and the resulting stand-alone file, is known as a static build of the program. A static build may not need any further relocation if virtual memory is used and no address space layout randomization is desired. When linking is performed during the creation of an executable or another object file, it is known as static linking or early binding.

A prominent example of this can be found in the Mongol massacre of the Nizaris at Alamut in 1256 and the torching of their top university egypt, "the fame of which", boasts the conqueror Juwayni, "had spread throughout the world". A shared library or shared object is a file that is intended to be shared by executable files and further shared object files. Modules used by a program are loaded from individual shared objects into memory at load time or runtime, rather than being copied by a linker when it creates a single monolithic executable file for the program.