💰 A large amount 📚 Book shelves area

stacks

5.3

Shelves in a library where many books are kept and that are often closed to the public

noun
/stæks/

Jargon

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After hours of searching, I finally found the book I needed buried deep in the stacks of the library.

And I run into the security guard out in the stacks.

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Examples

And I used to sit in there in the stacks and look out of the window whenever I could.
The librarian took me to the back room where the stacks of old books were kept, far from public view.
There were thousands of stacks, as they were called, moving out in the world.
But I would say that the majority of the research in the stacks, that was over about a three to four year.

Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy
And I used to sit in there in the stacks and look out of the window whenever I could.
So what you'll see is for the first time period, that the temperature in the stacks is the same as the temperature in the theatre.
(Location: Historical Society Library Stacks)

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Obviously in the stacks, there's some snacks and some cookies.
The stacks in the archives were meticulously organized, making it easy to locate rare manuscripts.

Synonyms

bookstack

vsstacks

1 3.2

A shelf or set of shelves holding books in a library

is a specific library area of shelves often closed to public

bookroom

vsstacks

2.7

A room in a school or shop where books are stored and shown

is an area in a library with large shelves often not open to public

Surface Forms

stack singular

stacks plural

Morphology

stacks = stack (semi-transparent) = stack + s

While 'stack' refers to a pile, the specific meaning of a library storage area is specialized and not immediately obvious.

Etymology

Stacks for the library area grew from that same idea of piled books, because librarians began calling the rows of shelves 'the stacks'. So stacks means the place where many books are kept, often out of public view.