![]() ![]() Visiting can admittedly be a bit of a hassle. The British Library was technically founded in 1973, but before that most of its collections were part of the British Museum. They receive 8000 new titles per day, so that runoff is badly needed. The main seat of the library is in London (near the world-famous King’s Cross Station) but there’s also a runoff in Boston Spa. It has between 170 million and 200 million items, squeezed onto 388 miles of shelves. I’m proud to announce that, despite having a budget that’s only about a third of the Library of Congress, the British Library clocks in as the world’s biggest library. There is some debate about exactly which libraries are the biggest, but these are the numbers I think are truest. ![]() Note: this does not include privately owned libraries. Here are ten of the world’s biggest – with a few facts thrown in too. The upper limit, though, is over ten times that amount. ![]() There are 22 libraries in the world that have a whopping 15 million items catalogued. ![]()
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