collection (n.)
- abundance
- accumulation
- agglomeration
- aggregation
- album
- alms
- ana
- analects
- anthology
- aquarium
- assemblage
- assembling
- assembly
- assortment
- backlog
- band
- body
- boiling
- budget
- bunch
- canon
- canvass
- census
- charity
- chrestomathy
- clump
- cluster
- collecting
- colligation
- collocation
- combination
- commissariat
- commissary
- company
- comparison
- compilation
- concourse
- concurrence
- confluence
- conflux
- congeries
- conglomeration
- congregation
- contribution
- convergence
- copy
- cornucopia
- corpus
- crew
- crowd
- cumulation
- data
- dole
- donation
- dump
- edition
- florilegium
- flowers
- fund
- garden
- garland
- gathering
- group
- handout
- heap
- hecatomb
- hoard
- holdings
- holocaust
- immolation
- impression
- incense
- infanticide
- ingathering
- inventory
- issue
- junction
- juxtaposition
- kit
- larder
- libation
- library
- lot
- mass
- material
- materials
- materiel
- medley
- menagerie
- miscellanea
- miscellany
- mobilization
- museum
- muster
- number
- oblation
- offering
- offertory
- omnibus
- outfit
- party
- pile
- pittance
- plenitude
- plenty
- printing
- provisions
- rations
- repertoire
- repertory
- rick
- rodeo
- roundup
- ruck
- sacrifice
- scapegoat
- scrapbook
- self-sacrifice
- series
- set
- solicitation
- stack
- stock
- stock-in-trade
- stockpile
- store
- stores
- subscription
- survey
- suttee
- symposium
- tithe
- treasure
- treasury
- trove
- variety
- volume
- zoo
The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.