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Notable libraries around the world
This is an alphabetical list of notable libraries around the world. It includes both notable public lending libraries and research libraries .
Alphabetical
A
American Memorial Library
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
B
Barrow-in-Furness Main Public Library
Brooklyn Public Library
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
C
Cambridge University Library
Chincoteague Island Library
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
D
Danish Royal Library
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
E
exterior of the central branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library
Edmonton Public Library , Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
Elyachar Central Library , Haifa , Israel
Enoch Pratt Free Library , Baltimore, Maryland , United States
EveningHour Library, Hyderabad, India
F
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
G
German National Library of Economics
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
H
Hong Kong Central Library
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
J
John Rylands Library
K
Khaliq Dina Hall
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
L
Library of Congress
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
M
Marathon County Public Library
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
N
National Central Library, Florence
National Library of Public Information, Taichung, Taiwan
New Orleans Public Library
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
O
Orange County Library System
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
P
Pepys Library
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
Q
Quaid-e-Azam Library
R
Robarts Library, University of Toronto
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
S
State Library of Queensland on the Brisbane River
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, 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
T
Toronto Public Library
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
U
University of Coimbra General Library
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
V
W
West German Audio Book Library for the Blind
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
Y
Yale University Library
Z
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