List of libraries
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This is a list of notable libraries. It includes both public lending libraries and research libraries.
- Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Astan Quds Razavi's Central Library, Mashhad, Iran
- Austin Public Library, Austin, Texas, U.S.
- Avon Lake Public Library, Avon Lake, Ohio
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
- Birmingham Central Library, England
- Bodleian Library, Oxford
- Boston Public Library, U.S., the first publicly supported municipal library in America
- Botanical Research Institute of Texas Library, Fort Worth, Texas
- British Library, London
- Brooklyn Public Library, US
- Cambridge University Library
- Carolina Rediviva at Uppsala University
- Chetham's Library in Manchester
- Christchurch Public Libraries, Christchurch, New Zealand http://library.christchurch.org.nz/
- Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Massachusetts
- CISTI, Ottawa, Canada
- SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig, Leipzig
- Duchess Anna Amalia Library, Weimar, Germany
- Dunedin Public Libraries, Dunedin, New Zealand[1]
- Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland
- Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Fisher Library, Sydney - largest in the Southern Hemisphere
- Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC
- Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library, Stony Brook, New York
- Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
- Glasgow University Library, Scotland
- Haskell Free Library and Opera House, US-Canada border
- Hilandar Research Library, Ohio State University
- Hong Kong Central Library, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island - the central library of Hong Kong
- Houston Public Library, US
- Huntington Library, San Marino, California
- Jenkins Law Library, Philadelphia - America's First Law Library
- John Rylands Library
- Kedermister Library, a 17th century parish church library at Langley near Slough
- Keweenaw Liberty Library
- Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Netherlands
- Leiden University Library, Leiden, Netherlands
- Library of Alexandria, ancient Egypt
- Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Library of Sir Thomas Browne
- London Library
- Los Angeles Central Library
- Luis Angel Arango Library, Bogotá, Colombia
- Malek National Library, Tehran, Iran
- Marquette University library, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US preserves many of J. R. R. Tolkien's original manuscripts, notes and letters
- Marsh's Library in Dublin
- Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Mitchell Library, Glasgow
- Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
- National Library of Australia, Canberra
- National Library of Canada
- National Library of India, Kolkata
- National Library of Iran, Tehran, Iran National Library Official Website
- National Library of Ireland, Dublin
- National Library of New Zealand, Wellington http://www.natlib.govt.nz/
- National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
- National Library of Serbia, Belgrade
- National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
- New Orleans Public Library
- New York Public Library, New York, New York
- Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois - humanities library with extensive genealogical collections
- Library of the Pannonhalma Benedictine Archabbey ([2])
- Peckham Library
- Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge – containing the original diaries of Samuel Pepys
- Robarts Library, University of Toronto, Canada
- Royal Library, Copenhagen
- Royal Library of Sweden
- Ruskin Library at Lancaster University, UK
- Russian National Library in St Petersburg (former Saltykov-Schedrin Public Library and (before 1917) the Imperial Public Library)
- Russian State Library in Moscow (former Biblioteka imeni Lenina, or Lenin's Library)
- Salt Lake City Public Library – architecturally unique library designed by Moshe Safdie
- San Antonio Public Library
- Schlesinger Library - women's history
- Seattle Central Library
- State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
- Toronto Public Library Toronto
- Troy Public Library, US
- Vatican Library in Vatican City
- W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Westmont Public Library
- Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge
- Yale University Library, Yale University
- Yiu Tung Public Library, Shau Kei Wan, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
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