List of the largest libraries on earth

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

Other libraries with a large collection

German-speaking area Austrian National Library in Vienna , 12.23 million media units Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library in Frankfurt am Main , 10.18 million media units Technical information library in Hanover , 9 million media units ETH library in Zurich , 8.45 million media units University library of the University of Vienna , 7.9 million media units Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen , 7.7 million media units Basel University Library , 7 million media units University library of the LMU Munich , 6.5 million media units University library of the Humboldt University of Berlin , 6.5 million media units Central library Zurich , 6 million media units University and State Library Münster , 6 million media units Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart , 5.8 million media units University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt in Halle (Saale) , 5.55 million media units Leipzig University Library , 5.5 million media units Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library , 5.4 million media units Erlangen-Nuremberg University Library , 5.4 million media units State and University Library Hamburg , 5 million media units Swiss National Library in Bern , 5 million media units USA and Canada University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library , 13.2 million media units Yale University Library in New Haven , 12.8 million media units University of California, Berkeley Libraries , 11.6 million media units Columbia University Libraries in New York City , 11 million media units University of Michigan Library at Ann Arbor , 10.8 million media units

rest of Europe National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh , 14 million media units Romanian National Library in Bucharest , 13 million media units Italian National Library in Florence , 11 million media units National Széchényi Library in Budapest , 8 million media units National Library of Belarus in Minsk , 8 million media units Biblioteka Narodowa in Warsaw , 7.9 million media units Italian National Library in Rome , 7.2 million media units National Library of the Czech Republic in Prague , 7.2 million media units Royal Library of the Netherlands in The Hague , 6 million media units Serbian National Library in Belgrade , 6 million media units Latvian National Library in Riga , 5 million media units rest of the world Brazilian National Library in Rio de Janeiro , 9 million media units

Individual evidence

1. ^ Using the British Library
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30. ^ About the New York State Library . March 18, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
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32. ^ National Library of Sweden ( English , PDF; 1.2 MB) Retrieved September 26, 2013.
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