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The Largest Libraries in the U.S.Rank | Institution | Volumes held |
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1. | Library of Congress | 29,550,914 | 2. | Harvard University | 15,181,349 | 3. | Boston Public Library | 14,933,349 | 4. | Yale University | 11,114,308 | 5. | Chicago Public Library | 10,745,608 | 6. | University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign | 10,015,321 | 7. | The Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County | 9,885,359 | 8. | Queens Borough Public Library | 9,691,126 | 9. | University of California–Berkeley | 9,572,462 | 10. | County of Los Angeles Public Library | 9,185,321 | 11. | University of Texas–Austin | 8,322,944 | 12. | Stanford University | 8,000,000 | 13. | University of Michigan | 7,800,389 | 14. | Columbia University | 7,697,488 | 15. | University of California–Los Angeles | 7,576,790 | 16. | Detroit Public Library | 7,265,306 | 17. | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 7,232,850 | 18. | Cornell University | 7,120,301 | 19. | University of Chicago | 6,977,186 | 20. | New York Public Library | 6,777,587 | 21. | Indiana University | 6,647,355 | 22. | University of Washington | 6,436,960 | 23. | The Free Library of Philadelphia | 6,388,077 | 24. | Princeton University | 6,224,270 | 25. | University of Minnesota | 6,200,669 | 26. | Dallas Public Library | 5,916,549 | 27. | Brooklyn Public Library | 5,845,212 | 28. | Ohio State University | 5,674,784 | 29. | Los Angeles Public Library | 5,554,904 | 30. | University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill | 5,492,451 | 31. | Duke University | 5,360,303 | 32. | University of Pennsylvania | 5,273,887 | 33. | University of Arizona | 5,040,584 | 34. | University of Virginia | 4,921,442 | 35. | Pennsylvania State University Libraries | 4,779,165 | 36. | Michigan State University | 4,582,004 | 37. | University of Oklahoma | 4,427,670 | 38. | University of Pittsburgh | 4,420,970 | 39. | University of Iowa | 4,380,734 | 40. | Houston Public Library | 4,339,128 | 41. | Northwestern University Library | 4,315,314 | 42. | King County Library System | 4,213,810 | 43. | New York University | 4,176,065 | 44. | Rutgers University | 4,050,009 | 45. | University of Florida | 4,021,629 | 46. | Cleveland Public Library | 3,999,771 | 47. | Miami-Dade Public Library System | 3,998,192 | 48. | University of Kansas | 3,980,589 | 49. | University of Georgia | 3,955,004 | 50. | Arizona State University Libraries | 3,856,561 | 51. | University of Southern California | 3,800,702 | 52. | Washington University–St. Louis | 3,608,538 | 53. | Johns Hopkins University | 3,572,375 | 54. | Buffalo & Erie County Public Library | 3,539,038 | 55. | Cuyahoga County Public Library | 3,465,469 | 56. | University of South Carolina | 3,374,496 | 57. | Brigham Young University | 3,373,793 | 58. | University of California–Davis | 3,365,689 | 59. | St. Louis Public Library | 3,360,942 | 60. | State University of New York–Buffalo | 3,330,476 | 61. | Wayne State University | 3,323,580 | 62. | University of Colorado | 3,314,432 | 63. | University of Hawaii | 3,294,184 | 64. | Hawaii State Public Library System | 3,281,117 | 65. | Brown University | 3,257,242 | 66. | North Carolina State University | 3,236,096 | 67. | Louisiana State University | 3,213,314 | 68. | University of Rochester | 3,185,231 | 69. | San Diego Public Library | 3,169,565 | 70. | University of Connecticut | 3,168,617 | 71. | University of Missouri–Columbia | 3,149,211 | 72. | University of Massachusetts | 3,132,418 | 73. | University of Utah | 3,128,547 | 74. | Mid-Continent Public Library | 3,120,544 | 75. | University of Notre Dame | 3,054,075 | 76. | University of Kentucky | 3,053,726 | 77. | University of Maryland | 3,016,940 | 78. | Texas A&M University Libraries | 3,016,358 | 79. | Milwaukee Public Library | 2,989,081 | 80. | University of Cincinnati Libraries | 2,977,475 | 81. | Montgomery County Dept. of Public Libraries | 2,959,184 | 82. | Columbus Metropolitan Library | 2,955,569 | 83. | University of California–San Diego | 2,953,024 | 84. | Enoch Pratt Free Library | 2,906,821 | 85. | Temple University | 2,900,832 | 86. | Syracuse University | 2,900,448 | 87. | Vanderbilt University | 2,882,057 | 88. | University of Tennessee–Knoxville | 2,880,949 | 89. | Broward County Libraries Division | 2,825,077 | 90. | Orange County Public Library | 2,794,942 | 91. | Southern Illinois University–Carbondale | 2,791,775 | 92. | St. Louis County Library District | 2,781,301 | 93. | University of Nebraska–Lincoln | 2,767,320 | 94. | University of California–Santa Barbara | 2,765,756 | 95. | Emory University | 2,755,929 | 96. | Auburn University | 2,724,011 | 97. | Fairfax County Public Library | 2,712,212 | 98. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2,707,849 | 99. | Toledo-Lucas County Public Library | 2,689,922 | 100. | Kent State University Libraries | 2,634,374 |
Source: American Library Association, www.ala.org , Aug. 2005.
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