Grants.gov is a central storehouse for information on over 1,000 grant programs and provides access to approximately $500 billion in annual awards.

But some companies, like TiVo, which makes personal video recorders, argue that people will not have one central storehouse for all their media but a variety of devices linked by a network.

Mr. Campbell, 52, the director of the central storehouse for the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, has consolidated the warehouses of six city agencies into one depot.

Working mainly through churches, FISH collects food and clothing, keeping it at a central storehouse in one of its participating churches.

"So-ho, you come in a good time to see how we deal with the pilgrims come for healing, Valdemar-Herald," Chief Vordon was saying as they neared the central storehouse.

The monasteries thus attracted many of the best people in society, and during this period the monasteries were the central storehouses and producers of knowledge.

Similarly, at the library Rotunda, Jefferson employed four different types of classical columns in order, Wills says, "to convey the comprehensiveness of the central storehouse of knowledge."

The central storehouse for wood used as fuel for the steam locomotives was located in Haapamäki; this provided work for many locals.

The monasteries were the central storehouses and producers of knowledge.