Listing Document Libraries using JavaScript

Is it possible to use JavaScript to list all document libraries of a site? I would like to create a page that lists all document libraries (where the document library's name meets certain criteria).
Johan Raeymaeckers

You can use the Object Model to do this. MS have authored an article that explains it better than I can here. It has quite a few interesting other tricks too.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh185009
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