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CA$125 million [39] Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine Ukraine: Kyiv: 15.5 million [40] 500,000 [40] 50.3 million ₴ [41] 900 [40] Yale Library United States: New Haven, Connecticut, one location for students, staff and no free borrowing access to the public 15.2 million [42] National Library of Iran Iran
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 ...
List of largest libraries Lists of Carnegie libraries For lists of Carnegie libraries in the US by state or territory, see List of Carnegie libraries in the United States and see each state's respective article
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 ...
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]
The Warner Bros. Archives is the largest single studio collection in the world. Donated in 1977 to the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, by Warner Communications, the WBA houses departmental records that detail Warner Bros. activities from the studio's first major feature, My Four Years in Germany (1918), to its sale ...