Largest Libraries in World
British Library
The British Library is the
national library of the United
Kingdom. The library is a major research
library, holding over 150 million items from many countries, in many languages
and in many formats, both print and digital: books, manuscripts, journals,
newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, videos, play-scripts,
patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings. The Library's collections
include around 14 million books, along with substantial holdings of manuscripts
and historical items dating back as far as 2000 BC. The British Library is the
largest library in the world, with the second largest being the Library of
Congress of the United
States. The British Library adds some three
million items every year occupying 9.6 kilometres (6.0 mi) of new shelf
space.