Arlington Library

 is a mostly-intact Public Library building in Fallout 3. It is now occupied by Raiders. is easily found by following the Potomac river SE past the Citadel, then turning West to follow the road just South of the Citadel. It is directly across from Alexandria Arms and about two miles NW of the Jefferson Memorial.

Moira Brown will ask you to explore the library and download the card catalog and the library's full archives to disk as part of The Wasteland Survival Guide quest. There is also one of five Music Paper books inside that can be returned to Agatha as part of the Agatha's Song quest. Additionally, there is a special ink well inside that can be used to forge a duplicate Declaration of Independence as part of the Stealing Independence quest.

When you enter the Library you will be forced to speak with Scribe Yearling, a Capital Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel agent who is tasked with archiving all pre-war knowledge into the Brotherhood's central computers. If you do not insult her she will offer to pay you 100 Bottle caps and 10 XP per Pre-War Book given to her. She will also give you access to the Library's computer terminal, where you will be able to download the card catalog to complete Moira's 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 will help you clear out the building, two in the Main Lobby, two in the Children's Wing and two in the Media Archives, if the ones from one section survive, they will help you clear out the other areas as well.

Notable Loot

 * 10 Pre-War Books.
 * 3x - On the catwalk overlooking the main library
 * 1x - Beside the Public Terminal in the Media Archives
 * 1x - In the room with two turret guns
 * 1x - In the room with the 'Restoration Supplies'
 * 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 Foodtronic 3000


 * Sheet Music Book - Found in the children's section of the library. Past the Firehose Box. Go right. Past the Nuka Cola Machine. In the first room you see enter. In the right cubicle by a music stand on the floor.
 * Ink Container in the 'Restoration Supplies' box in the Media section. It is a quest item and therefore cannot be removed after picking it up, but it will still occupy 1lb until you get the corresponding (sub-)quest from Button Gwinnett.
 * 5 Skill Books
 * Big Book of Science - In an office in the main lobby, up the flight of stairs on the right.
 * Guns and Bullets - Take the door from the Media Archive to the Children's Wing. You'll also find 3 of the above mentioned Pre-War books here, along with a shotgun and some ammo.
 * Tumblers Today - In the room where you download the archives, on the desk flanked by two sets of microfiche readers.
 * Lying, Congressional Style - Children's Wing, in the break room, next to the coffee-makers.
 * Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor - In the room with the pool table in the Media Archive.


 * Nuka-Cola Quantum - on the SW corner of the room where you download the archives.
 * Holotags, Power Armour, Miniguns and other weapons looted from fallen Brotherhood Of Steel soldiers.
 * 2x Stealth Boys - one on table in area overlooking the lobby; one in an ammo box in the lobby.
 * There is a safe in a doorless room which can only be entered by dropping through a hole in the floor in the Children's Wing on the top floor (which is only one room), then you have to drop though a hole in that room's floor to get out.


 * Just to the north of the main door there is a Pulowski Preservation Shelter that contains a Guns and Bullets.
 * There is a Nikola Tesla and You at the Talon Company outpost to the south of the library

Appearances
 only appears in Fallout 3.