Top 10 Largest Libraries in the world :)
Knowledge is the world’s only thing
you cannot constrain anywhere. In every era people tried to save every
bit of knowledge they acquired and today we have the mighty libraries
filled with the abundance of knowledge and human practices. Today we
attempted to produce a top 10 list of the world’s largest libraries of
the world.
10. Library of Congress
Library of congress is located in Washington DC, USA. It was founded
in the year 1800. This library stocks over 30 million books. Library of
congress was featured in a film National Treasure 2. The Library of
Congress was established on April 24, 1800, when President John Adams
signed an Act of Congress providing for the transfer of the seat of
government from Philadelphia to the new capital city of Washington.
9. National Library of China
The National Library of China or NLC in Beijing is the largest
library in Asia, and one of the largest in the world with a collection
of over 26.3 million volumes by 2007. It holds the largest and among the
richest worldwide collections of Chinese literature and historical
documents.
8. Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies covers the social
sciences and humanities with topics ranging from archaeology, economics,
history, law, linguistics, literary criticism, philosophy, political
science, religious studies, and much more. The catalog includes
citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, manuscripts, and
dissertations published primarily in Russia, the republics of the former
Soviet Union, and countries in Eastern Europe. This library stocks over
20 million books.
7. National Library of Canada
The National Library of Canada holds more than 10 million
publications. Most are written and published in Canada, but some are
works about Canada that are published abroad. A specialized area of
expertise is Canadian music. The National Library holds records, tapes,
compact discs, sound recordings, sheet music and personal papers of
musicians. It even has the piano of famed Canadian pianist, Glenn Gould.
Reference services respond to about 100,000 inquiries each year. With a
few exceptions, the National Library of Canada will lend material to
any library in Canada or around the world. This library stocks over 18.8
million books.
6. German National Library
The German National Library is the vital archival library and
national bibliographic core for the Federal Republic of Germany. Its
task, individual in Germany, is to gather, permanently archive,
comprehensively document and evidence bibliographically without gap all
German and German-language publications from 1913 on, foreign
publications about Germany, translations of German works, and the works
of German-speaking emigrants published abroad between 1933 and 1945, and
to make them available to the public. The German National Library
maintains co-operative external relations on the national and
international level. For example, it is the leading partner in
developing and maintaining rules and standards in Germany and plays a
significant role in the development of international standards.
5. British Library
The British Library receives a copy of every publication produced in
the UK and Ireland. The collection includes well over 150 million items,
in most known languages. 3 million new items are added every year. They
have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings,
music scores, and patents. The British Library house 8 million stamps
and other philatelic items and all this require over 625 km of shelves,
and grow by 12 km every year.
4. Institute for Scientific Information Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute for Scientific Information Russian Academy of Sciences is
in Moscow, Russia. It was founded in 1969. This library stocks over 13.5
million books.
3. Harvard University Library
The Harvard Library provides comprehensive access to library holdings
across the boundaries of individual faculties and disciplines. The
Library is also a department of the University’s central administration
through which the libraries collaborate in the areas of digital
acquisitions and collections, information technology, high-density
storage, and preservation having a stock of 13.1 million books.
2. Vernadsky National Scientific Library of Ukraine
The Vernadsky National Scientific Library is situated in Ukraine. It
was established in the year 1919. This library stocks over 13 million
books.
1. New York Public Library
The New York Public Library was fashioned by the consolidation of the
Tilden Trust and the Astor and Lenox libraries on May 23 year 1895. The
milestone building was erected on the site of the old Croton Reservoir.
The cornerstone was laid on November 10, 1902. The Building cost was
approximately $9,000,000 on a plot value of $20,000,000. There are 88
miles of shelf space in the Humanities & Social Science Library and
40 miles under Bryant Park. Seating was made from 42 oak tables, each
seating up to 16 readers providing a total space for 624 readers; before
renovation, only 490 reader seats were present .
