List of the largest libraries on earth

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This sortable list of the world's largest libraries contains those libraries whose collections contain at least 15 million individual items. This includes books , periodicals , handwritten texts (such as letters , documents , music and contracts ) as well as photos , postcards and maps . Occasionally this also includes patents and paintings .

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Surname Location Size (number of media) visitors per year budget Employee
British Library United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom , London 170 million 1.75 million £ 141 million 1977
Library of Congress United StatesUnited States United States , Washington, DC 170.1 million 1.9 million $ 696 million 3210
New York Public Library United StatesUnited States United States , New York City 55.1 million 17.4 million US $ 300 million 2937
Russian State Library RussiaRussia Russia , Moscow 46 million 1.17 million 1.64 billion rubles 1972
Russian National Library RussiaRussia Russia , Saint Petersburg 37 million 1 million
German National Library GermanyGermany Germany , Leipzig , Frankfurt am Main 36.1 million 173.739 54.9 million 641.5
National Parliament Library JapanJapan Japan , Tokyo , Kyoto 43.4 million 654,000 ¥ 21.8 billion 908
Bavarian State Library GermanyGermany Germany , Munich 33.4 million 1.1 million 54.7 million 839
Danish Royal Library DenmarkDenmark Denmark , Copenhagen 35.4 million 1.5 million 412.4 million DKK 430
Chinese National Library China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China , Beijing 36.5 million 5.2 million 1365
Bibliothèque nationale de France FranceFrance France , Paris 40 million 1.3 million 254 million 2668
Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences RussiaRussia Russia , Saint Petersburg 26.5 million
Spanish National Library SpainSpain Spain , Madrid 25 million 131,000 52.9 million 468
Berlin State Library GermanyGermany Germany , Berlin 23.4 million 1.4 Million 60.7 million 712
Boston Public Library United StatesUnited States United States , Boston 23.4 million $ 38.9 million
Library and Archives Canada CanadaCanada Canada , Ottawa 22.5 million C $ 127 million 1152
New York State Library United StatesUnited States United States , Albany (New York) 20 million
Stockholm Royal Library SwedenSweden Sweden , Stockholm 18 million 350
Harvard University Library United StatesUnited States United States , Cambridge (Massachusetts) 20.4 million $ 167 million 1100
Vernadskyj National Library of Ukraine UkraineUkraine Ukraine , Kiev 15.8 million 500,000 50.3 million 900
Natural Science Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences RussiaRussia Russia , Moscow 15 million 300

Other libraries with a large collection

German-speaking area

USA and Canada

rest of Europe

rest of the world

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Using the British Library
  2. ^ The British Library Annual Report and Accounts 2008/09 - Performance . 2009. Archived from the original on March 25, 2012. Retrieved on July 14, 2010.
  3. a b The British Library Annual Accounts 2008/09 (PDF; 140 kB) 2009. Archived from the original on February 29, 2012. Retrieved on July 15, 2010.
  4. https://www.loc.gov/about/general-information/#year-at-a-glance , accessed on August 10, 2020
  5. a b c Annual Report of the Library of Congress 2019 . Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  6. ^ A b c The New York Public Library At a Glance . Retrieved June 13, 2017.
  7. ^ New York Public Library: Annual Report 2016 . 2016 ( nypl.org [PDF]).
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  9. a b Collections . Retrieved February 6, 2020.
  10. a b c d German National Library (Ed.): Annual Report 2018 . 2019, ISSN  1864-2640 , urn : nbn: de: 101-2019052102 .
  11. a b c d National Diet Library Statistics . 2017. Retrieved February 6, 2020.
  12. a b c d [1] , The Bavarian State Library in Figures - 2018.
  13. 2015 Annual Report ( Danish , PDF; 7.8 MB) 2015. Accessed February 6, 2020.
  14. a b c SUMMARY 2011 (doc) (PDF; 251 kB) 2011. Accessed September 26, 2013.
  15. ^ Annual report of the National Library of China . 2017. Archived from the original on July 22, 2019. Retrieved on February 6, 2020.
  16. a b ANNUAL REPORT TO CDNL 2010 (PDF; 43 kB) 2009. Archived from the original on March 25, 2012. Retrieved on July 14, 2010.
  17. Connaître la BnF . Archived from the original on November 28, 2007. Retrieved February 6, 2020.
  18. BnF - La BnF en chiffres - Publics ( French ) 14 октября 2009. Archived from the original on February 29, 2012. Retrieved on July 14, 2010.
  19. BnF - La BnF en chiffres - Budget ( French ) 14 октября 2009. Archived from the original on February 29, 2012. Retrieved on July 14, 2010.
  20. BnF - La BnF en chiffres - Personnels ( French ) 23 декабря 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
  21. Единый фонд системы Библиотеки Российской Академии наук - главный информационный ресурс . Archived from the original on February 26, 2012. Retrieved July 14, 2010.
  22. ^ A b Biblioteca Nacional de España. Memoria 2009 ( Spanish , PDF; 912 kB) 2009. Archived from the original on March 25, 2012. Retrieved on July 15, 2010.
  23. ^ A b Biblioteca Nacional de España. Memoria 2011 ( Spanish , PDF; 440 kB) 2011. Accessed September 26, 2013.
  24. a b Facts and Figures | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin ( German ) 2009. Archived from the original on June 20, 2010. Retrieved on July 15, 2010.
  25. a b Annual Report 2011. Budget and staff ( German , PDF; 5.3 MB) 2012. Accessed on September 26, 2013.
  26. https://www.bpl.org/about-us/statistics/ Retrieved February 5, 2020
  27. ^ BPL - Community . 9 апреля 2010. Archived from the original on March 19, 2012. Retrieved on July 15, 2010.
  28. http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/stay-connected/Pages/infographic.aspx Accessed February 5, 2020
  29. a b Library and Archives Canada 1/3: Summary of Performance . 31 марта 2009. Archived from the original on March 25, 2012. Retrieved on July 14, 2010.
  30. ^ About the New York State Library . March 18, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
  31. Our Collections - Kungliga biblioteket . Retrieved February 10, 2013.
  32. ^ National Library of Sweden ( English , PDF; 1.2 MB) Retrieved September 26, 2013.
  33. a b https://www.harvard.edu/media-relations/media-resources/quick-facts accessed on February 5, 2020
  34. ^ Harvard University Library Online Annual Report - Harvard's University Library . 2009. Archived from the original on July 27, 2010. Retrieved on July 15, 2010.
  35. ФОНДИ ТА ЕЛЕКТРОННІ РЕСУРСИ НБУВ ( Ukrainian ) Retrieved July 12, 2020.
  36. a b О Национальной библиотеке Украины имени В.И. Вернадского, Киев . Archived from the original on March 10, 2012. Retrieved July 14, 2010.
  37. Про Державний бюджет України на 2010 рік | вiд April 27, 2010 № 2154-VI (Стор. 16 з 28) ( Ukrainian ) 17 июня 2010. Accessed July 14, 2010.
  38. a b БЕН РАН. Информация о библиотеке . Archived from the original on March 25, 2012. Retrieved July 15, 2010.
  39. ^ University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg: Overview 2018. University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg , March 2019, accessed on June 3, 2019 .
  40. Figures and data: Vienna University Library , accessed on March 13, 2019