List of libraries

This is an alphabetical list of notable libraries around the world. It includes both notable public lending libraries and research libraries.

Alphabetical[]

A[]

• Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, Scotland
• , , Ibadan, Nigeria
• Alexandria Library, Alexandria, Virginia, United States
• Alice Springs Public Library, Alice Springs, Australia
• Allahabad Public Library, Allahabad, India
• Allegheny County Library Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• , Dhaka, Bangladesh
• American Memorial Library, Berlin, Germany
• Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
• Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
• Argostoli Public Library, Kefalonia, Greece
• , Riverside, California, United States
• Astan Quds Razavi's Central Library, Mashhad, Iran
• Australian National University Library, Canberra, Australia

B[]

• Baltimore County Public Library, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• Barrow-in-Furness Main Public Library, Cumbria, England
• Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
• Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
• Beit Ariela, Tel Aviv, Israel
• Berlin Art Library (Kunstbibliothek Berlin), Berlin, Germany
• Berlin Central and Regional Library, Berlin, Germany
• Berlin State Library, Berlin, Germany
• ,
• Biblioteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
• Biblioteca Estense, Modena, Italy
• Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago, Chile
• Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, Spain
• Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal
• Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze, Firenze, Italy
• Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Roma, Rome, Italy
• , San Jose, Costa Rica
• Biblioteca Pública de Pichilemu, Pichilemu, Chile
• Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
• Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
• Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, France
• Birmingham Central Library, England
• Bizzell Memorial Library, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States
• Bodleian Library, Oxford, England
• Boston Public Library, United States
• Botanical Research Institute of Texas Library, Fort Worth, Texas, United States
• British Library, London, England
• British Library of Political and Economic Science, London, England
• Brooklyn Public Library, United States
• Broward County Library, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• , Bhera, Pakistan
• Burton Barr Central Library, Phoenix, Arizona, United States

C[]

• Cal Poly Pomona University Library at Cal Poly Pomona, United States
• Calgary Public Library, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Cambridge University Library, England
• Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Carolina Rediviva at Uppsala University, Sweden
• Catholic National Library, Farnborough, Hampshire, England
• Center for Jewish History, Manhattan, United States
• Cerritos Millennium Library in Cerritos, California, United States
• Changhua City Library, Changhua County, Taiwan
• Charles V. Park Library at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States
• Chekhov Library in Taganrog, Russia
• Chetham's Library in Manchester, England
• Chicago Public Library, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Chincoteague Island Library, Chincoteague Island, Virginia, United States
• Chongqing Library, Chongqing, China
• Cincinnati Public Library, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
• City of Playford Library Service in Adelaide, Australia
• Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
• Clinton-Macomb Public Library, Clinton Charter Township, Michigan, United States
• College of DuPage Library, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, United States
• Cologne Public Library, Cologne, Germany
• Columbia Public Library, Columbia, Missouri, United States
• Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, Ohio, United States
• Connemara Public Library, Chennai, India
• Contra Costa County Library, Pleasant Hill, California, United States
• Cornish Studies Centre, Redruth, Cornwall, England
• Cory Library for Historical Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
• County of Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles County, California, United States
• Cuyahoga County Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
• Cosy Nook Library, Bangalore, India

D[]

• Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark
• David Lubin Memorial Library, Rome, Italy
• Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Michigan
• Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig, Leipzig
• District of Columbia Public Library
• Doe Library, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California
• Dr. Mahmud Hussain Library, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan
• Dr. Vijay Pal Memorial Library, Delhi, India
• Dr Williams's Library, Bloomsbury, London
• Drill Hall Library, Chatham, Kent, England
• Duchess Anna Amalia Library, Weimar, Germany
• Dyal Singh Trust Library, Lahore, Pakistan

E[]

• Edmonton Public Library, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Elyachar Central Library, Haifa, Israel
• Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland
• EveningHour Library, Hyderabad, India

F[]

• Fairfax County Public Library, Fairfax, Virginia
• Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
• Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC
• Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum, London, United Kingdom
• Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
• Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia

G[]

• German Central Library for the Blind, Leipzig, Germany
• German National Library, Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig, Berlin, Germany
• German National Library of Economics, Kiel and Hamburg
• German National Library of Medicine, Cologne and Bonn
• German National Library of Science and Technology, Hanover
• Ghalib Library, Karachi, Pakistan
• Glasgow University Library, Scotland
• Göttingen State and University Library, Germany
• Grande Bibliothèque du Québec, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Guangzhou Library, Guangzhou, China
• Greifswald University Library, Greifswald, Germany

H[]

• Halifax Central Library
• Haskell Free Library and Opera House
• Hesburgh Library, Notre Dame, Indiana
• Hessian State Library, Wiesbaden, Germany
• Hershey Public Library, Hershey, Pennsylvania
• Hilandar Research Library, Ohio State University
• Williams Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Homer Babbidge Library, University of Connecticut, Storrs
• Hong Kong Central Library, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island
• Houston Public Library, Houston, Texas
• , Hummelstown, Pennsylvania
• Huntington Library, San Marino, California

I[]

• Illinois State Library, Springfield, Illinois
• Imperial College Central Library, London, England
• Imperial Library of Constantinople
• International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

J[]

• Jacksonville Public Library

• James V. Brown Library
• Jenkins Law Library, Philadelphia
• John Crerar Library
• John Rylands Library
• John Rylands University Library
• Jubilee Library, Brighton

K[]

• Kedermister Library
• Kenton County Public Library, Kentucky
• Kenton County Public Library, Oregon
• Knight Library, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
• Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Netherlands

L[]

• Leiden University Library, Leiden, Netherlands
• Library of Alexandria, Ancient Egypt
• Library of Birmingham, Birmingham
• Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• Library of Parliament, Ottawa
• Library of Sir Thomas Browne
• Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Library of Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
• Lied Library, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Lilly Library, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana
• Linen Hall Library, Belfast
• , Vilnius
• London Library
• Los Angeles Central Library
• Louisville Free Public Library, Louisville, Kentucky
• Louisville Public Library, Louisville, Ohio, USA
• Ludwigshafen University Library, Ludwigshafen, Germany
• Luís Ángel Arango Library, Bogotá, Colombia

M[]

• Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, Nepal
• Makerere University Library, Uganda
• Malcolm A. Love Library (San Diego State University), San Diego, California
• Malek National Library, Tehran, Iran
• Manchester Central Library, England
• Marathon County Public Library (MCPL), Wausau, Wisconsin
• Mário de Andrade Library in São Paulo
• Mark O. Hatfield Library, at Willamette University
• Marsh's Library in Dublin
• Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius
• Maughan Library at King's College London
• McGill University Library, Montreal
• Merton College Library, at Merton College, Oxford (oldest continually functioning library in the world)
• Miami-Dade Public Library System
• Michigan State University Libraries
• Milli Kütüphane (National Library of Turkey, Ankara)
• Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Mitchell Library, Glasgow
• Moncton Public Library, Moncton, New Brunswick
• Montgomery County Public Libraries, Rockville, Maryland
• Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
• , City of Moreland, Australia
• Morton Grove Public Library, Morton Grove, Illinois
• Multnomah County Library, Multnomah County, Oregon
• Musical Electronics Library, Auckland, New Zealand

N[]

• National Agricultural Library
• National Central Library, Florence
• National Central Library, Rome
• National Diet Library, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan
• National Library of Armenia, Yerevan
• National Library of Australia, Canberra
• National Library of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
• National Library of Canada
• National Library of China, Beijing, China
• National Library of India, Kolkata
• National Library of Iran, Tehran
• National Library of Ireland, Dublin
• National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
• National Library of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
• National Library of Medicine
• National Library of New Zealand, Wellington
• National Library of Nigeria, Abuja
• National Library of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan
• National Library of Public Information, Taichung, Taiwan
• National Library of Russia in St Petersburg
• National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
• National Library of Serbia, Belgrade
• National Library of South Africa, Cape Town and Pretoria
• National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
• National Library, Singapore
• New Orleans Public Library
• New York Public Library, New York, New York
• Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois
• Nottingham Subscription Library, Nottingham

O[]

• Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, Netherlands
• O'Meara Mathematics Library, Notre Dame, Indiana
• Orange County Library System, Orlando, Florida
• Oregon State Library, Salem, Oregon
• Orlando East Public Library, Soweto, South Africa
• Ottawa Public Library, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

P[]

• Pack Memorial Library, Asheville, North Carolina
• Palm Beach County Library System, West Palm Beach, Florida
• Park Ridge Public Library, Park Ridge, Illinois
• Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
• Peckham Library
• Peking University Library, Beijing, China
• Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge
• , Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi
• Pikes Peak Library District, Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Plainfield Public Library District, Plainfield, Illinois
• Powell Library, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
• Prince George's County Memorial Library System, Largo, Maryland
• Pritzker Military Library, Chicago, Illinois
• Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County
• Punjab Public Library, Lahore

Q[]

• Quaid-e-Azam Library, Lahore
• Queens Library, New York, New York

R[]

• Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Regina Public Library, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Rhodes University Library, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
• Rock Island Public Library, Rock Island, Illinois
• Robarts Library, University of Toronto, Canada
• Royal Danish Library
• Royal Library of Sweden
• Ruskin Library at Lancaster University, UK
• Russian State Library in Moscow

S[]

• Sacramento Public Library, Sacramento, California
• St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, Missouri
• Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
• San Antonio Public Library, San Antonio, Texas
• San Diego County Library, San Diego, California
• San Diego Public Library, San Diego, California
• San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, California
• San José Public Library, San Jose, California
• Santa Clara County Library District
• Saxon State and University Library Dresden, Dresden, Germany
• Scarabelli library, Caltanissetta, Italy
• Schlesinger Library
• Scientific and Technical Library,^[1] National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute", Ukraine
• Seattle Central Library, Seattle Washington
• Shanghai Library, Shanghai, China
• Sichuan Library, Chengdu, China
• Smyrna Public Library, Smyrna, Georgia
• South San Francisco Public Library
• Southfield Public Library, Southfield, Michigan
• SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library, Sofia, Bulgaria
• State Central Library, Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India
• State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
• State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
• State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
• State Library of Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
• Stockholm Public Library, Stockholm, Sweden
• , Trafford
• , Guangzhou, China

T[]

• SDTM Library, Mumbai, India
• Texas A&M University Libraries, College Station, Texas
• Thomas S. Power Library, Offutt AFB, Nebraska
• Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka, Kansas
• Toronto Public Library, Toronto
• Toronto Reference Library, Toronto
• Troy Public Library, Troy, New York
• Twinsburg Public Library
• Tribhuvan University Central Library, Kathmandu, Nepal

U[]

• U. Grant Miller Library, Washington & Jefferson College
• University of Central Florida Libraries, Orlando, Florida
• University of Coimbra General Library, Coimbra, Portugal
• University of Florida Library System
• University of Applied Sciences Augsburg Library
• University of Houston Libraries
• University of Queensland Library, Brisbane, Australia
• University of South Florida Tampa Library, Tampa, Florida
• University of Sydney Library, Sydney, Australia
• University of Zambia Library

V[]

• Valley Library, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
• Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver
• Vancouver Tool Library and Community Access Center (VTLCAC), Tool Library, Vancouver, Washington^[2]
• Vatican Library in Vatican City
• Vilnius University Library

W[]

• W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv, Israel
• Wellcome Library, London
• West German Audio Book Library for the Blind, Münster, Germany
• William F. Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
• William T. Young Library, University of Kentucky
• Windhoek Public Library in Windhoek, Namibia
• Winnipeg Public Library, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge

Y[]

• Yale University Library, Yale University
• YeungNam University Library, South Korea
• Yiu Tung Public Library, Shau Kei Wan, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
• Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library, Haifa, Israel

Z[]

• Zillur Rahman Library, Aligarh, India

See also[]

• Esperanto libraries
• List of destroyed libraries
• List of largest libraries
• List of libraries in the ancient world
• List of national libraries
• List of libraries by country
• List of repositories
• List of archives
• List of librarians

References[]

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External links[]

• American Library Association's list of largest US libraries, ala.org
• libraries.org: a directory of about 200,000 worldwide libraries maintained by Marshall Breeding, librarytechnology.org
• Libraries of the world and their catalogues, compiled by a retired librarian, sylviamilne.co.uk
• National libraries of Europe, theeuropeanlibrary.org
• LIBweb - directory of library servers in 146 countries via WWW
• UNESCO libraries portal - over 14000 links worldwide, unesco.org
• Edwin Wiley (1920). "Libraries, Modern" . Encyclopedia Americana.