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Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences Russia: Saint Petersburg: 26.5 million [29] Berlin State Library Germany: Berlin: 23.4 million [30] 1.4 million [30] Boston Public Library United States: Boston, Massachusetts at 25 locations 22.4 million [31] US$38.9 million [32] New York State Library
The University of California operates the largest academic library system in the world. It manages more than 40.8 million print volumes [1] in 100 libraries on ten campuses. . The purpose of these libraries is to assist research and instruction on the University of California camp
The Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the largest library in the United States and second-largest library in the world with over 167 million holdings, including 39 million books and other printed recordings, 14.8 million photographs, 5.5 million maps, 8.1 million pieces of sheet music, and 72 million manuscripts
The library system also contains many other departmental and specialized libraries, including the 580,000 volume Marian Koshland Bioscience, Natural Resources & Public Health Library, the C. V. Starr East Asian Library (the largest of its kind in the West), and the Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library, which features more than 260,000 books ...
The University Library at Los Angeles was founded in 1883, two years after the establishment of what was then known as the California State Normal School.The library's first acquisition was Survey of Wyoming and Idaho by Dr. Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden [3] In 1910, Elizabeth Fargo began her tenure as the university's first librarian and by 1919, the University Library was operated by a staff of ...
Sacramento Public Library is a public library system in Sacramento, California. With nearly 2 million items, it is the fourth largest library system in California. With nearly 2 million items, it is the fourth largest library system in California.
The system is overseen by a Board of Library Commissioners with five members appointed by the mayor of Los Angeles in staggered terms, and operates 72 library branches throughout the city. [5] In 1997 a local historian described it as "one of the biggest and best-regarded library systems in the nation." [6]
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