This is an alphabetical list of notable libraries around the world. It includes both notable public lending libraries and research libraries.
Alphabetical
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- Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, Scotland
- African Heritage Research Library and Cultural Centre, Adeyipo Village, Ibadan, Nigeria
- Alexandria Library, Alexandria, Virginia, United States
- Alice Springs Public Library, Alice Springs, Australia
- Allahabad Public Library, Allahabad, India
- Allegheny County Library Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Aloghar Library, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- American Memorial Library, Berlin, Germany
- Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
- Argostoli Public Library, Kefalonia, Greece
- Arlanza Branch Library, Riverside, California, United States
- Astan Quds Razavi's Central Library, Mashhad, Iran
- Australian National University Library, Canberra, Australia
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- Baltimore County Public Library, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Barrow-in-Furness Main Public Library, Cumbria, England
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- Beit Ariela, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Berlin Art Library (Kunstbibliothek Berlin), Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Central and Regional Library, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin State Library, Berlin, Germany
- Bhaikaka Library, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India
- Biblioteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Biblioteca Estense, Modena, Italy
- Biblioteca Municipal Fernando Piteira Santos,Lisbon, Portugal
- Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, Spain
- Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal
- Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze, Firenze, Italy
- Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Roma, Rome, Italy
- Biblioteca Nacional, San Jose, Costa Rica
- Biblioteca Pública de Pichilemu, Pichilemu, Chile
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
- Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, France
- Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations, Paris, France
- Birmingham Central Library, England
- Bizzell Memorial Library, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States
- Bodleian Library, Oxford, England
- Boston Public Library, United States
- Botanical Research Institute of Texas Library, Fort Worth, Texas, United States
- British Library, London, England
- British Library of Political and Economic Science, London, England
- Brooklyn Public Library, United States
- Broward County Library, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
- Bugvia library, Bhera, Pakistan
- Burton Barr Central Library, Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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- Cal Poly Pomona University Library at Cal Poly Pomona, United States
- Calgary Public Library, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Cambridge University Library, England
- Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Carolina Rediviva at Uppsala University, Sweden
- Catholic National Library, Farnborough, Hampshire, England
- Center for Jewish History, Manhattan, United States
- Cerritos Millennium Library in Cerritos, California, United States
- Changhua City Library, Changhua County, Taiwan
- Charles V. Park Library at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States
- Charleston County Public Library, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States
- Chekhov Library in Taganrog, Russia
- Chetham's Library in Manchester, England
- Chicago Public Library, Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Chincoteague Island Library, Chincoteague Island, Virginia, United States
- Chongqing Library, Chongqing, China
- Cincinnati Public Library, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
- City of Playford Library Service in Adelaide, Australia
- Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Clinton-Macomb Public Library, Clinton Charter Township, Michigan, United States
- College of DuPage Library, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, United States
- Cologne Public Library, Cologne, Germany
- Columbia Public Library, Columbia, Missouri, United States
- Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, Ohio, United States
- Connemara Public Library, Chennai, India
- Contra Costa County Library, Pleasant Hill, California, United States
- Cornish Studies Centre, Redruth, Cornwall, England
- Cory Library for Historical Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Cosy Nook Library, Bangalore, India
- County of Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Cuyahoga County Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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- Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark
- David Lubin Memorial Library, Rome, Italy
- Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Michigan
- Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig, Leipzig
- District of Columbia Public Library
- Doe Library, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
- Dr. Mahmud Hussain Library, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan
- Dr. Vijay Pal Memorial Library, Delhi, India
- Dr Williams's Library, Bloomsbury, London
- Drill Hall Library, Chatham, Kent, England
- Duchess Anna Amalia Library, Weimar, Germany
- Dyal Singh Trust Library, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Edmonton Public Library, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Elyachar Central Library, Haifa, Israel
- Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- EveningHour Library, Hyderabad, India
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edit- Fairfax County Public Library, Fairfax, Virginia, United States
- Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- Film Reference Library, Toronto, Canada
- Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, United States
- Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum, London, United Kingdom
- Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States
- Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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- German Central Library for the Blind, Leipzig, Germany
- German National Library, Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig, Berlin, Germany
- German National Library of Economics, Kiel and Hamburg
- German National Library of Medicine, Cologne and Bonn
- German National Library of Science and Technology, Hanover
- Ghalib Library, Karachi, Pakistan
- Glasgow University Library, Scotland
- Göttingen State and University Library, Germany
- Grande Bibliothèque du Québec, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Guangzhou Library, Guangzhou, China
- Greifswald University Library, Greifswald, Germany
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- Halifax Central Library
- Haskell Free Library and Opera House
- Hesburgh Library, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States
- Hessian State Library, Wiesbaden, Germany
- Hershey Public Library, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
- Hilandar Research Library, Ohio State University, United States
- Williams Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
- Homer Babbidge Library, University of Connecticut, Storrs, United States
- Hong Kong Central Library, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island
- Houston Public Library, Houston, Texas, United States
- Hummelstown Public Library, Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, United States
- Huntington Library, San Marino, California, United States
I
edit- Illinois State Library, Springfield, Illinois, United States
- List of libraries in Isfahan
- Imperial College London Abdus Salam Library, London, England
- Imperial Library of Constantinople
- Indianapolis Public Library, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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- James V. Brown Library
- Jenkins Law Library, Philadelphia
- John Crerar Library
- John Rylands Library
- John Rylands University Library
- Jubilee Library, Brighton
K
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- Kedermister Library
- Kenton County Public Library, Kentucky
- Kenton County Public Library, Oregon
- Khaliq Dina Hall, Karachi, Pakistan
- Klaukkala Library, Klaukkala, Finland
- Knight Library, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
- Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Netherlands
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- Leiden University Library, Leiden, Netherlands
- Liberei
- Library of Alexandria, Ancient Egypt
- Library of Birmingham, Birmingham
- Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Library of Parliament, Ottawa
- Library of Sir Thomas Browne
- Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Library of Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
- Lied Library, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Lilly Library, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana
- Linen Hall Library, Belfast
- Lithuanian Technical Library, Vilnius
- London Library
- Los Angeles Central Library
- Louisville Free Public Library, Louisville, Kentucky
- Louisville Public Library, Louisville, Ohio, USA
- Ludwigshafen University Library, Ludwigshafen, Germany
- Luís Ángel Arango Library, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, Nepal
- Makerere University Library, Uganda
- Malcolm A. Love Library (San Diego State University), San Diego, California
- Malek National Library, Tehran, Iran
- Manchester Central Library, England
- Marathon County Public Library (MCPL), Wausau, Wisconsin
- Mário de Andrade Library in São Paulo
- Mark O. Hatfield Library, at Willamette University
- Marsh's Library in Dublin
- Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius
- Masood Jhandir Research Library, Mailsi, Pakistan
- Maughan Library at King's College London
- McGill University Library, Montreal
- Merton College Library, at Merton College, Oxford (oldest continually functioning library in the world)
- Miami-Dade Public Library System
- Michigan State University Libraries
- Milli Kütüphane (National Library of Turkey, Ankara)
- Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Mitchell Library, Glasgow
- Moncton Public Library, Moncton, New Brunswick
- Montgomery County Public Libraries, Rockville, Maryland
- Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
- Merri-bek City Libraries, City of Merri-bek, Australia
- Morton Grove Public Library, Morton Grove, Illinois
- Multnomah County Library, Multnomah County, Oregon
- Musical Electronics Library, Auckland, New Zealand
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- National Agricultural Library
- National Central Library, Florence
- National Central Library, Rome
- National Diet Library, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan
- National Library of Armenia, Yerevan
- National Library of Australia, Canberra
- National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
- National Library of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
- National Library of Canada
- National Library of China, Beijing, China
- National Library of India, Kolkata
- National Library of Iran, Tehran
- National Library of Ireland, Dublin
- National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
- National Library of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
- National Library of Medicine
- National Library of New Zealand, Wellington
- National Library of Nigeria, Abuja
- National Library of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan
- National Library of Public Information, Taichung, Taiwan
- National Library of Russia in St Petersburg
- National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
- National Library of Serbia, Belgrade
- National Library of South Africa, Cape Town and Pretoria
- National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
- National Library, Singapore
- New Orleans Public Library
- New York Public Library, New York, New York
- Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois
- Nottingham Subscription Library, Nottingham
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- Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, Netherlands
- O'Meara Mathematics Library, Notre Dame, Indiana
- Orange County Library System, Orlando, Florida
- Oregon State Library, Salem, Oregon
- Orlando East Public Library, Soweto, South Africa
- Ottawa Public Library, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Pack Memorial Library, Asheville, North Carolina
- Palm Beach County Library System, West Palm Beach, Florida
- Park Ridge Public Library, Park Ridge, Illinois
- Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Peckham Library
- Peking University Library, Beijing, China
- Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge
- Perpustakaan Tun Sri Lanang, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi
- Pikes Peak Library District, Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Plainfield Public Library District, Plainfield, Illinois
- Powell Library, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
- Prince George's County Memorial Library System, Largo, Maryland
- Pritzker Military Library, Chicago, Illinois
- Public Library (Közkincs Könyvtár), Budapest
- Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County
- Punjab Public Library, Lahore
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- Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- Regina Public Library, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Rhodes University Library, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Rock Island Public Library, Rock Island, Illinois
- Robarts Library, University of Toronto, Canada
- Royal Danish Library
- Royal Library of Sweden
- Ruskin Library at Lancaster University, UK
- Russian State Children's Library, Moscow
- Russian State Library, Moscow
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- Sacramento Public Library, Sacramento, California
- St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, Missouri
- Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
- San Antonio Public Library, San Antonio, Texas
- San Diego County Library, San Diego, California
- San Diego Public Library, San Diego, California
- San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, California
- San José Public Library, San Jose, California
- Santa Clara County Library District
- Saxon State and University Library Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Scarabelli library, Caltanissetta, Italy
- Schlesinger Library
- Scientific and Technical Library,[1] National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute", Ukraine
- Seattle Central Library, Seattle Washington
- Shanghai Library, Shanghai, China
- Sichuan Library, Chengdu, China
- Smyrna Public Library, Smyrna, Georgia
- South San Francisco Public Library
- Southfield Public Library, Southfield, Michigan
- SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library, Sofia, Bulgaria
- State Central Library, Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India
- State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
- State Library of Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
- Stockholm Public Library, Stockholm, Sweden
- Stretford Library, Trafford
- Sun Yat-sen Library of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, China
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- Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) SDTM Library, Mumbai, India
- Texas A&M University Libraries, College Station, Texas
- Thomas S. Power Library, Offutt AFB, Nebraska
- Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka, Kansas
- Toronto Public Library, Toronto
- Toronto Reference Library, Toronto
- Troy Public Library, Troy, New York
- Twinsburg Public Library
- Tribhuvan University Central Library, Kathmandu, Nepal
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- U. Grant Miller Library, Washington & Jefferson College
- University of Central Florida Libraries, Orlando, Florida
- University of Coimbra General Library, Coimbra, Portugal
- University of Florida Library System
- University of Applied Sciences Augsburg Library
- University of Houston Libraries
- University of Queensland Library, Brisbane, Australia
- University of South Florida Tampa Library, Tampa, Florida
- University of Sydney Library, Sydney, Australia
- University of Zambia Library
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edit- Valley Library, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
- Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver
- Vancouver Tool Library and Community Access Center (VTLCAC), Tool Library, Vancouver, Washington[2]
- Vatican Library in Vatican City
- Vilnius University Library
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- W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Wellcome Library, London
- West German Audio Book Library for the Blind, Münster, Germany
- William F. Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
- William T. Young Library, University of Kentucky
- Windhoek Public Library in Windhoek, Namibia
- Winnipeg Public Library, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge
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- Yale University Library, Yale University
- YeungNam University Library, South Korea
- Yiu Tung Public Library, Shau Kei Wan, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library, Haifa, Israel
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edit- Zillur Rahman Library, Aligarh, India
See also
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editThis article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. (June 2013) |
External links
edit- American Library Association's list of largest US libraries, ala.org
- libraries.org: a directory of about 200,000 worldwide libraries maintained by Marshall Breeding, librarytechnology.org
- Libraries of the world and their catalogues, compiled by a retired librarian, sylviamilne.co.uk
- National libraries of Europe, theeuropeanlibrary.org
- LIBweb - directory of library servers in 146 countries via WWW
- UNESCO libraries portal - over 14000 links worldwide, unesco.org
- Edwin Wiley (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
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