List of largest libraries
This sortable list of largest libraries includes libraries that, as measured in 2008 or subsequently, store 15 million or more items.
Largest libraries in the world[]
Name | Country | Location | Catalogued size (number of items) |
Visitors per year | Budget | Staff |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
British Library | United Kingdom | London and Boston Spa[1] | [2][3][4] |
170–200 million[5] | 1.75 million£141 million[6] | [6] | 1,977
Library of Congress | United States | Washington D.C. | [7] | 170 million+[8] | 1.9 millionUS$696.112 million[8] | [8] | 3,149
Shanghai Library | China | Shanghai | [9] | 56 million|||
New York Public Library | United States | New York City | [10] | 55 million[10] | 18 millionUS$250 million[10] | [10] | 3,000
Library and Archives Canada | Canada | Ottawa | [11] | 54 millionC$116.9 million[12] | [12] | 874|
Russian State Library | Russia | Moscow | [13] | 47.5 million[13] | 1.12 million2.4 billion RUB[13] | [13] | 1,699
National Diet Library | Japan | Tokyo and Kyoto | [14] | 44.1 million[14] | 791,370¥21.8 billion[14] | [14] | 908
Royal Library, Denmark | Denmark | Copenhagen and Aarhus | [15] | 42.5 million (physical items, excl. digital)[15] | 1.45 million523.8 million DKK[15] | [16] | 800+
Bibliothèque nationale de France | France | Paris | [17] | 40 million[18] | 1.3 million€254 million[19] | [20] | 2,668
National Library of China | China | Beijing | [21] | 37.7 million[22] | 5.2 million[22] | 1,365|
National Library of Russia | Russia | Saint Petersburg | [23] | 36.5 million[23] | 1 million₽569.2 million | 1,850 |
German National Library | Germany | Leipzig and Frankfurt | [24] | 36.1 million[24] | 350,713€54.9 million[24] | [24] | 642
Biblioteca Nacional de España | Spain | Madrid | [25] | 33.1 million€29.2 million[26] | [26] | 482|
Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences | Russia | Saint Petersburg | [27] | 26.5 million|||
Berlin State Library | Germany | Berlin | [28] | 23.4 million[28] | 1.4 million||
Boston Public Library | United States | Boston, Massachusetts | [29] | 22.4 millionUS$38.9 million[30] | ||
New York State Library | United States | Albany, New York | [31] | 20 million|||
Harvard Library | United States | Cambridge, Massachusetts | [32] | 18.9 million[32] | 922||
National Library of Sweden | Sweden | Stockholm | [33] | 18 million364.5 million kr[34] | ||
Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine | Ukraine | Kyiv | [35] | 15.5 million[35] | 500,00050.3 million ₴[36] | [35] | 900
Yale Library | United States | New Haven, Connecticut | [37] | 15.2 million|||
National Library of Iran | Iran | Tehran | [38] | 15.0 million
See also[]
References[]
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