List of the world's largest libraries

Largest libraries in the world based on number of stored items From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This sortable list of the world's largest libraries includes libraries that (as of 2008) store 10 million or more items. All figures are based on data published by the libraries themselves. As there are no universally accepted standards for measuring stock, libraries may have counted their holdings in different ways, and the figures given may not be directly comparable.

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Name Country Location and notes Catalogued size
(number of items)		 Visitors per year Budget Staff
British Library United Kingdom London and Boston Spa[1] 200 million+[2][3][4] 1.75 million[5] _01625000000£162.5 million[6] 1,977[6]
Library of Congress United States Washington, D.C. 178 million+[7] 1.9 million[8] _19523722680US$875.4 million[8] 3,149[8]
Nation's Library Turkey Ankara 141.7 million[9] 1.9 million[10] _19523722680US$24.25 million 1,389
Russian State Library Russia Moscow 126.1 million[11] 498,000[12] _01640000000₽2.7 billion[12] 1,613[12]
Shanghai Library China Shanghai 58 million[13]
New York Public Library United States 92 locations in the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, The Bronx and Staten Island
(2nd largest number of locations in North America).[14]		 55 million[15] 18 million[15] _07546275000US$250 million[15] 3,000[15]
National Library of China China Beijing 44.24 million[16] 5.2 million[17] 1,365[17]
National Diet Library Japan Tokyo and Kyoto 44.1 million[18] 791,370[18] _07128927000¥21.8 billion[18] 908[18]
German National Library Germany Leipzig and Frankfurt 43.7 million[19] 350,713[19] _01834033100€57.6 million[19] 639[19]
Royal Library, Denmark Denmark Copenhagen and Aarhus 42.5 million
(physical items, excl. digital)[20]		 1.45 million[20] _02249892000523.8 million kr[20] 800+[21]
Bibliothèque nationale de France France Paris 41.66 million[22] 1.9 million[23] _11038967000€254 million[24] 2,668[25]
University of California Libraries United States Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz.
Restricted to students, faculty or visitors who buy a membership.[26]		 40.8 million[26] US$295 million[26] 2,000+[26]
University of Illinois Library United States Urbana, Illinois, at 30 locations.[27] 38 million[28] US$48.7 million_07546275000[29]
National Library of Russia Russia Saint Petersburg 36.5 million[30] 1 million[30] ₽569.2 million 1,850
Bavarian State Library Germany Munich 34.4 million 1.1 million _01834033100€59.1 million 805
Biblioteca Nacional de España Spain Madrid 33.1 million[31] _02299060450€29.2 million[32] 482[32]
Library and Archives Canada Canada Ottawa, Halifax, Winnipeg, Vancouver. Largely a free reference library. 27 million CAD165 million 853
Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences Russia Saint Petersburg 26.5 million[33]
Berlin State Library Germany Berlin 23.4 million[34] 1.4 million[34]
Boston Public Library United States Boston, Massachusetts at 26 locations.[35] 22.4 million[36] 3.2 million [37] _01174200390US$38.9 million[38]
New York State Library United States Albany, New York 20 million[39]
Harvard Library United States Cambridge, Massachusetts

Restricted to students, faculty, or visitors who buy a membership.[40]

 18.9 million[41] 922[41]
National Library of Sweden Sweden Stockholm 18 million[42] 364.5 million kr[43]
University of Michigan Library United States Ann Arbor, Michigan, at one location largely. Free borrowing for staff, students, and native and indigenous people.
All others may purchase borrowing rights.[44]		 16.1 million[45]
University of Toronto Libraries Canada Toronto and Mississauga at 44 locations 28 of which are accessible to the public.[46][47] Non-affiliated personnel/students or those without eduroam or OCUL access cannot utilize technology or borrowing services at UTL branches.

Select libraries offer memberships and/or guest passes to non-affiliated members of the public.

 16 million[48] CA$133 million[49]
Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine Ukraine Kyiv 15.5 million[50] 500,000[50] _0018860991050.3 million ₴[51] 900[50]
Yale Library United States New Haven, Connecticut at 12 locations.[52] 15.2 million[53]
National Library of Iran Iran Tehran 15 million[54]
University of Chicago Library United States Chicago 14.2 million[55] 1.1 million[55]
National Library of Scotland Scotland Edinburgh and Glasgow 14 million
Bodleian Library United Kingdom Oxford 13.8 million printed items, plus special and digital collections[56] 1.7 million readers[57], 865,191 visitors[58]. £57.8 million[57] 562.76 (FTE)[57]
Hong Kong Public Library Hong Kong Hong Kong 11.36 million[59] _00776200000HK$776.2 million[60]
National Library of Poland  Poland Warsaw 10.6 million[61] 81,043[62] 502[63]
Toronto Public Library Canada 100 locations in Toronto[64] 10.5 million[64] 13.4 million[64] CA$252,300,000[65] 2,500[66]
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