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Library (computing)

Illustration of an application which uses libvorbisfile to play an Ogg Vorbis file

In computer science, a library is a collection of resources that is leveraged during software development to implement a computer program.

Historically, a library consisted of subroutines (generally called functions today). The concept now includes other forms of executable code including classes and non-executable data including images and text. It can also refer to a collection of source code.

For example, a program could use a library to indirectly make system calls instead of making those system calls directly in the program.


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