Arlington Library

Arlington Library is a mostly-intact public library building in Fallout 3. It is mostly occupied by raiders that are boxed in and hunted by Brotherhood of Steel soldiers holding position in the front lobby.

Exterior
Arlington Library is easily found by following the Potomac River south past the Citadel, then turning west to follow the road just south. It is directly across from Alexandria Arms and about two miles west-southwest of the Jefferson Memorial.

There is a Talon Company camp nearby, so be careful when approaching the library, as they are easily alerted to your presence. Next to Alexandria Arms, there is a building that a lone raider uses as his home and is covered with traps. In addition, an Enclave Vertibird may appear just outside of the raider's building and drop off troops.

Interior
When you enter the library you will immediately initiate dialogue with Scribe Yearling, a Brotherhood of Steel scribe who is tasked with archiving all pre-War knowledge into the Brotherhood's central computers. She will give you access to the library's computer terminal at the front desk, where you will be able to download the card catalog to complete a primary objective in the The Wasteland Survival Guide quest. To complete the optional objective, you will have to explore further into the building until you find the library's mainframe computer buried deep within a raider den.

A couple of Brotherhood of Steel soldiers from Scribe Yearling's detachment, found on the first floor near the back, at the entrance to the first room with raiders, will help you clear out the building. Once you approach them, they will begin a scripted advance through the building, into the other wings, and will eventually finish up in a 'final' room with two turrets, where, just before entering, they will be joined by a third Brotherhood soldier. This advance will clear almost all the raiders in library (with the player's help, otherwise they will most likely die before reaching the final room). Unfortunately, their path does not lead them into the room where the player needs to go to achieve the optional objective of the Wasteland Survival Guide quest. Once they have cleared the room with the two turrets, they stand down and begin walking back to Scribe Yearling's position.

Notable loot

 * 10 pre-War books:
 * 3x - On the catwalk overlooking the main library hall - Two on shelves on the southern wall, and one on the table on the northern wall, next to the hallway door.
 * 1x - Beside the public terminal in the Media Archives.
 * 1x - In the Media Archives area, in the room with two turret guns, northeast corner. Also the ink container can be found here.
 * 3x - In the Children's Wing, third floor. (Access through Media Archives.)
 * 1x - Children's Wing, in the break room, on a table next to the Eat'o'tronic 3000.
 * 1x - Children's Wing, in the same room you'll find the sheet music book in, on a desk.
 * 6 skill books:
 * Big Book of Science - Upstairs from the lobby to the right, through the hallway, on a desk in an office with two sofas. First door on the right.
 * Guns and Bullets - In the Children's Wing, in the first room you enter coming from the Media Archive. You'll also find 3 of the above mentioned pre-War books here, along with a shotgun and some ammunition. This room is right before you drop through a hole in the floor to continue through the Children's Wing, so you can't access the book by proceeding from the Lobby Entrance. if you drop down a floor from there you can also find a safe which contains some ammunition a Stealth Boy and other various items.
 * Lying, Congressional Style - Children's Wing, in the break room, next to the coffee-makers.
 * Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor - Second floor of the media archive, in the room with the pool table, under the square table in the corner. (Northwest part of map.)
 * Tumblers Today - In the room where you download the archives, on the desk against the north wall flanked by two sets of microfiche readers.
 * Just to the north of the main door there is a Pulowski preservation shelter (outside of the building) that contains a Guns and Bullets.
 * Ink container in the 'Restoration Supplies' box in the media section.
 * Sheet music book, There are two rooms sticking out on west side of the local map of the Children's Wing of the library; go to the room farthest north. (From the lobby, go past the firehose box, turn right and go past the Nuka-Cola machine. In the first room you see enter.) The sheet music is in the right cubicle by a music stand on the floor. In the first cubicle on the left is a trapped terminal. A pre-War book is in the back left cubicle, though if you don't see it there, keep looking around. This room also contains a trapped terminal.
 * Nuka-Cola Quantum,2 one in the vending machine on the right in the first room you see when entering the archives the other is on a table in the southwest corner of the Arlington Library Media Archive, where you download the archives; it's hidden in the corner behind a crate and two skulls - and as always, check the vending machines.
 * 3 Stealth Boys on a table in area overlooking the lobby. There is also one in an ammunition box to the right of the entrance. There is also one in the above mentioned safe

Appearances
Arlington Library only appears in Fallout 3.

Bugs

 * Unable to load (freezing) when moving between various library sections (especially after completing optional part of Moira's "Retrieve complete library archive" quest), eventually begins to crash even when attempting to enter the library lobby from the outside.
 * If the 'Restoration Supplies' are taken after the Stealing Independence quest is completed it may result in not being able to load the Arlington Public Library Lobby.
 * Sometimes, when entering the library, Scribe Yearling will be frozen in place, and unable to interact with. Moving away from her, or bumping into her, or leaving and re-entering usually fixes this.
 * Upstairs where the raider event occurs, the player can get stuck walking on tilted book shelves, and being unable to fast travel will require a reload.
 * The radroaches on the bottom floor near the store-room and refrigerator can sometimes get stuck in the rubble and cannot move.
 * When battling through the Children's Wing together with the two Brotherhood soldiers, they can randomly disappear when going into a corridor and respawn in the Media Archive entrance.
 * Many of the books within the library appear to emit blood when punched with a power fist.
 * Sometimes after the raiders event in the lobby, the Brotherhood of Steel non-player character's guns will continue to sound like they are firing even after the raiders have been eliminated.
 * Scribe Yearling only accepts the pre-war books that are inside the library, meaning there are only 10 books available to sell.
 * The Brotherhood of Steel NPC's may randomly turn hostile towards the player if the player accidentally set off one of the traps near the Children's Wing, resulting in injuries to the BoS NPC's.


 * The Brotherhood of Steel NPC's may become hostile towards the player if the player attempts to loot one of their corpses upon death.

Арлингтонская библиотека