What is the difference between a framework and a library?

Question

What is the difference between a framework and a library?

I always thought of a library as a set of objects and

Answer 1

Your interpretation sounds pretty good to me... A library could be anything that's compiled and self-contained for re-use in other code, there's literally no restriction on its content.

A framework on the other hand is expected to have a range of facilities for use in some specific arena of application development, just like your example, MVC.