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  2. The largest public library in the United States and the second largest library in the world is the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., which is the de facto national library of the United States.

  3. Jul 26, 2022 · From the traditional-style libraries at Queen’s College, at Oxford University, to the sleek modern structure at Loyola University in Chicago, AD surveys 26 of the most beautiful college libraries from around the world.

  4. Feb 9, 2017 · One of the world’s largest libraries devoted entirely to rare books and manuscripts, the Beinecke Library sits on the Yale University campus. The building—made of Vermont marble and...

    • Harvard University (Cambridge, MA): 16,832,952.
    • University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (Champaign, IL): 13,158,748.
    • Yale University (New Haven, CT): 12,787,962.
    • University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA): 11,545,418.
  5. This sortable list of largest libraries includes libraries that, as measured in 2008 or subsequently, store 15 million or more items. All figures are based on data published by the libraries themselves.

    Name
    Country
    Location
    Catalogued Size (number Of Items)
    London and Boston Spa [1]
    _0180000000 170–200 million [2] [3] ...
    Washington, D.C. -reference access only & ...
    _0168000000 175 million+ [7]
    _0050000000 57 million [9]
    92 locations in New York City & Staten ...
    _005500000 55 million [10]
  6. The library's largest building, Sterling Memorial Library, contains about four million volumes in the humanities, social sciences, area studies, as well as several special collections projects and the department of Manuscripts and Archives.

  7. In the heart of central campus, Sterling Memorial Library is Yale’s largest library and one of the University’s most iconic buildings. Completed in 1930, it houses more than 2.5 million volumes, with a focus on humanities and area studies, on 14 floors of book stacks. Designed by architect James Gamble Rogers (Yale Class of 1889) and later ...

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