Library (Civ6)

Library
Building of the Ancient Era
Introduced in Civilization VI
Unlocked by	Writing
Cost
Production	90
Production	90
Maint.	1
Maint.	1
Requires
District	Campus
Effects
+2 Science +1 Citizen slot +1 Great Scientist point per turn.

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The Library is a basic scientific building in Civilization VI. It is built in the Campus district (or one of its replacements).

• Effects:
  • +2 Science (boosted by Rationalism policy card).
  • +1 Citizen slot.
  • +1 Great Scientist point per turn.
  • +2 Science for each Scientific City-State with 3 Envoys.
    • With Ethiopia Pack: +1 Science for each Scientific City-State with 1 Envoy.
  • +1 Science with Great Scientist Hypatia activated.

Strategy

The Library is one of the earliest (and cheapest) available buildings in the game, and a great booster to your technological development. Besides its intrinsic Science bonus, it provides the first Specialist slot for its Campus, which allows a further +2 Science. It also allows you to jump-start the attraction of a Great Scientist, one of the Great People who will help you advance through the tech tree even faster.

The Great Scientist Hypatia can be used to instantly build a Library in a Campus and to give all Libraries an extra +1 Science, and the Great Scientist Isaac Newton can be used to instantly build a Library and a University in a Campus.

In Rise and Fall, each scientific city-state with 3 or more Envoys gives an additional +2 Science in each Library.

Civilopedia entry

Once literacy fastened on civilization, it was inevitable that reading materials (books, periodicals, maps, newspapers, scrolls, tablets, documents of all sorts) should be gathered in one place – a library. The first libraries, those of Sumer dating back to approximately 2600 BC, were archives of clay tablets covered in cuneiform script. Over 30 thousand clay tablets have been unearthed in the Library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, including the Epic of Gilgamesh. The Library of Alexandria was the greatest and most significant library in the classical world, but it was burned – a fate most great libraries suffer, it seems. While Europe plunged into a Dark Age, libraries flourished under the Muslim Arabs, whose development of papermaking helped considerably in their acquisition of texts from the known world. Although many of these historical libraries were open to all, the foundation of free, public libraries came with the British Public Libraries Act of 1850, a boon to the literate (about 76% in 1870) no matter their low birth.

See also

• Library in other games