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+# Standard Library
+
+Contains all packages available within the standard library.
+
+## Contributions
+
+If you wish to contribute to improving this documentation, please open pull requests on the [ponyc](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc) repository after reading through our [contributing](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) guidelines.
+
+### Building Documentation Locally
+
+Pony has a documentation generator which builds into mkdocs format; we then use `mkdocs` to build and deploy the documentation. In brief, these are the steps to build a local instance of the `stdlib` documentation.
+
+```console
+ponyc packages/stdlib --docs-public --pass expr
+sed -i 's/site_name:\ stdlib/site_name:\ Pony Standard Library/' stdlib-docs/mkdocs.yml
+sed -i -e '1 e cat packages/stdlib/index.md' stdlib-docs/docs/index.md
+cd stdlib-docs; mkdocs serve; cd ../
+```