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This sortable '''list of largest [[Library|libraries]]''' includes libraries that, as measured in 2008 or subsequently, store 15 million or more items. |
This sortable '''list of largest [[Library|libraries]]''' includes libraries that, as measured in 2008 or subsequently, store 15 million or more items. |
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As of November 2021 and according to ''[[Guinness World Records]]'' the [[Library of Congress]] is the world's largest library when considering items in its holdings.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Largest library |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/69173-largest-library |access-date=2022-09-03 |website=Guinness World Records |language=en-gb}}</ref> |
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==Largest libraries in the world== |
==Largest libraries in the world== |
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This sortable list of largest libraries includes libraries that, as measured in 2008 or subsequently, store 15 million or more items.
Name | Country | Location | Catalogued size (number of items) |
Visitors per year | Budget | Staff |
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British Library | ![]() |
London and Boston Spa[1] | _0180000000170–200 million[2][3][4] |
_00017500001.75 million[5] | _01410000000£141 million[6] | _019771,977[6] |
Library of Congress | ![]() |
Washington D.C. | _0168000000173 million+[7] | _00017500001.9 million[8] | _19523722680US$696.112 million[8] | _036243,149[8] |
Shanghai Library | ![]() |
Shanghai | _005000000056 million[9] | _0001170000 | _01640000000 | _01972 |
New York Public Library | ![]() |
New York City | _00550000055 million[10] | _001800000018 million[10] | _07546275000US$250 million[10] | _029373,000[10] |
Library and Archives Canada | ![]() |
Ottawa | _005400000054 million[11] | _0116900000C$116.9 million[12] | _00874874[12] | |
Russian State Library | ![]() |
Moscow | _004440000048.1 million[13] | _00011700000.498 million[13] | _01640000000₽2.7 billion[13] | _019721,613[13] |
National Diet Library | ![]() |
Tokyo and Kyoto | _004190000044.1 million[14] | _0000654000791,370[14] | _07128927000¥21.8 billion[14] | _00908908[14] |
German National Library | ![]() |
Leipzig and Frankfurt | _003420000043.7 million[15] | _000029973350,713[15] | _01834033100€57.6 million[15] | _00622639[15] |
Royal Library, Denmark | ![]() |
Copenhagen and Aarhus | _003540000042.5 million (physical items, excl. digital)[16] | _00008503011.45 million[16] | _02249892000523.8 million kr[16] | _00492800+[17] |
National Library of China | ![]() |
Beijing | _003770000042.3 million[18] | _00052000005.2 million[19] | _013651,365[19] | |
Bibliothèque nationale de France | ![]() |
Paris | _004000000040 million[20] | _00013000001.3 million[21] | _11038967000€254 million[22] | _026682,668[23] |
University of Illinois Library | ![]() |
Urbana, Illinois | _004000000038 million[24] | US$48.7 million_07546275000[25] | ||
National Library of Russia | ![]() |
Saint Petersburg | _003650000036.5 million[26] | _00009660001 million[26] | ₽569.2 million | 1,850 |
Bavarian State Library | ![]() |
Munich | _003420000034.4 million | _0000299731.1 million | _01834033100€59.1 million | _000029973805 |
Biblioteca Nacional de España | ![]() |
Madrid | _003310000033.1 million[27] | _02299060450€29.2 million[28] | _01090482[28] | |
Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences | ![]() |
Saint Petersburg | _002650000026.5 million[29] | |||
Berlin State Library | ![]() |
Berlin | _002340000023.4 million[30] | _00014000001.4 million[30] | ||
Boston Public Library | ![]() |
Boston, Massachusetts | _002240000022.4 million[31] | _01174200390US$38.9 million[32] | ||
New York State Library | ![]() |
Albany, New York | _002000000020 million[33] | |||
Harvard Library | ![]() |
Cambridge, Massachusetts | _001890000018.9 million[34] | _00922922[34] | ||
National Library of Sweden | ![]() |
Stockholm | _001800000018 million[35] | 364.5 million kr[36] | ||
University of Michigan Library | ![]() |
Ann Arbor, Michigan | _001520000016.1 million[37] | |||
Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine | ![]() |
Kyiv | _001500000015.5 million[38] | _0000500000500,000[38] | _0018860991050.3 million ₴[39] | _00900900[38] |
Yale Library | ![]() |
New Haven, Connecticut | _001520000015.2 million[40] | |||
National Library of Iran | ![]() |
Tehran | _001500000015.0 million[41] |
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