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The Nation's Largest Libraries: A Listing by Volumes Held - Library Statistics and Figures
The Nation's Largest Libraries by Volumes Held
Number Source Library Name Volumes Held 1 L Library of Congress 39,290,248 2 A + P New York Public Library 36,251,074 3 A + P Boston Public Library 31,859,217 4 A Harvard University 20,367,538 5 A University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 14,297,276 6 A University of Michigan 13,829,825 7 A Yale University 13,796,100 8 A Columbia University 13,305,873 9 A University of California, Berkeley 12,674,985 10 A University of California, Los Angeles 12,153,191 11 A Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, OH 11,728,014 12 A University of Texas at Austin 11,474,528 13 A University of Chicago 11,012,065 14 A Princeton University 10,159,715 15 A Indiana University Bloomington 10,121,934 16 A University of Washington 9,761,357 17 A University of Wisconsin--Madison 9,535,953 18 A Ohio State University 9,471,622 19 A Cornell University 9,300,186 20 A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 8,217,694 21 A Pennsylvania State University 7,966,867 22 A University of Minnesota 7,781,968 23 A Duke University 7,719,701 24 A University of Colorado--Boulder 7,630,969 25 A University of Iowa 7,626,022 26 A University of Pennsylvania 7,544,154 27 A University of Pittsburgh 7,222,172 28 A University of Arizona 7,134,363 29 A Michigan State University 7,125,860 30 A Northwestern University 6,785,609 31 P Los Angeles Public Library, CA 6,742,212 32 A New York University 6,491,194 33 A University of Oklahoma 6,160,586 34 A Chicago Public Library, Illinois 5,957,131 35 A University of Southern California 5,874,665 36 A University of Virginia 5,821,710 37 A County of Los Angeles Public Library, CA 5,785,156 38 P Queens Library, NY 5,677,301 39 A Brown University 5,650,187 40 A University of South Carolina 5,594,370 41 A Rutgers University 5,562,045 42 A University of Florida 5,445,737 43 A Texas A&M University 5,410,931 44 A Washington University in St. Louis 5,365,825 45 A University of California, San Diego 5,365,746 46 A San Diego Public Library, CA 5,276,550 47 A Dallas Public Library, TX 5,156,625 48 A University of Georgia 5,156,322 49 A North Carolina State University 5,120,491 50 A Louisiana State University 5,061,589 51 A Arizona State University 4,986,637 52 P Hennepin County Library, MN 4,902,734 53 A University of Notre Dame 4,863,271 54 A Georgetown University 4,862,231 55 A Johns Hopkins University 4,826,081 56 A Syracuse University 4,787,834 57 A University of California, Riverside 4,769,795 58 A Brigham Young University 4,737,654 59 A Vanderbilt University 4,737,336 60 P Dayton Metro Library, OH 4,721,387 61 A University of Alabama 4,718,369 62 A University of Missouri 4,688,239 63 A University of Kentucky 4,661,676 64 A University of Kansas 4,657,692 65 A University of Maryland, College Park 4,655,092 66 A Temple University 4,649,306 67 A University of California, Davis 4,604,128 68 A Tulane University 4,519,565 69 A Auburn University 4,501,719 70 A University of Cincinnati 4,500,741 71 A University of Massachusetts, Amherst 4,489,647 72 P Detroit Public Library, MI 4,395,593 73 A Emory University 4,222,415 74 A Oklahoma State University 4,216,003 75 A SUNY Buffalo 4,161,150 76 A University of Rochester 4,155,153 77 A Florida State University 4,063,313 78 P King County Library System, WA 3,977,735 79 A University of Connecticut 3,971,084 80 P Clevelant Public Library, OH 3,952,648 81 A Boston University 3,911,712 82 A University of Utah 3,892,019 83 A University of Nebraska--Lincoln 3,796,228 84 A University of Tennessee 3,752,543 85 A Purdue University 3,720,724 86 A University of Miami 3,689,785 87 A University of California, Irvine 3,680,004 88 P Brooklyn Public Library, NY 3,668,229 89 P Cuyahoga County Public Library, OH 3,665,805 90 P Miami-Dade Public Library System, FL 3,627,304 91 A University of Houston 3,579,861 92 P Allen County Public Library, IN 3,574,008 93 A Texas Tech University 3,532,446 94 A University of Hawai'i at Manoa 3,525,607 95 A Ohio University 3,447,949 96 A University of Oregon 3,423,840 97 A George Washington University 3,416,994 98 P Hawaii State Public Library System, HI 3,406,303 99 A Dartmouth University 3,396,464 100 A Kent State University 3,370,479
L = Library of Congress Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2017
A = Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statistics, 2015-2016
P = Public Libraries Survey, FY 2016
Note: The Boston Public Library and New York Public Library function both as public libraries and as research libraries. Thus they appear on both the Public Libraries Survey and the ARL Statistics report, reporting their public library collection number in the former and their research library collection number in the latter. For accuracy in counting these institution's true holdings, these collection numbers have been added together.
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