List of libraries
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This is a list of notable libraries. It includes both notable public lending libraries and research libraries
Libraries here should have a corresponding article in Wikipedia, or at least state the reason they are notable.
- Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
- Astan Quds Razavi's Central Library, Mashhad, Iran
- Austin Public Library, Austin, Texas, U.S.
- Baltimore County Public Library, Baltimore, Maryland
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut
- Beyazıt Devlet Kütüphanesi (National Library, Istanbul)
- Biblioteca Colombina, Seville, Spain
- Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid
- 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, U.S.
- Burton Barr Central Library, Phoenix, Arizona
- Cambridge University Library
- Carolina Rediviva at Uppsala University
- Cerritos Millennium Library in Cerritos, California, the first titanium-clad structure in North America.
- Chekhov Library in Taganrog
- Chetham's Library in Manchester
- Christchurch Public Libraries, Christchurch, New Zealand http://library.christchurch.org.nz/
- Cincinnati Public Library, Cincinnati, Ohio
- CISTI, Ottawa, Canada
- Clinton-Macomb Public Library, Clinton Township, Michigan website
- College of DuPage Library, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
- Columbia Public Library, Columbia, Missouri
- Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, Ohio
- Contra Costa County Library, Pleasant Hill, California
- Cuyahoga County Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio - One of the nation's ten busiest library systems; ALA top rated library serving over 500,000 people
- Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig, Leipzig
- Dr Williams's Library, Bloomsbury, London
- Duchess Anna Amalia Library, Weimar, Germany
- Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland
- Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC
- Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York
- Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
- Glasgow University Library, Scotland
- Grande Bibliothèque du Québec, Montreal
- 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
- Library of the Pannonhalma Benedictine Archabbey ([1])
- London Library
- Los Angeles Central Library
- Loudoun County Public Library, Leesburg, Virginia, http:www.lcpl.lib.va.us
- Louisville Free Public Library, Louisville, Kentucky, [2]
- Louisville Public Library, Louisville, Ohio, USA, [3]
- Luís Ángel 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
- Milli Kütüphane (National Library, Ankara)
- Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Mitchell Library, Glasgow
- Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
- National Agricultural Library
- National Diet Library, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan
- 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 Medicine
- National Library of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan
- National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
- National Library of Serbia, Belgrade
- National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
- National Library, Singapore
- New Orleans Public Library
- New York Public Library, New York, New York
- Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois - humanities library with extensive genealogical collections
- Peckham Library
- Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge – containing the original diaries of Samuel Pepys
- Pikes Peak Library District,Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Robarts Library, University of Toronto, Canada
- 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
- South San Francisco Public Library
- SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library, Sofia, Bulgaria
- State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
- Texas A&M University Libraries, College Station, Texas
- Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka, Kansas
- Toronto Public Library Toronto
- Toronto Reference Library Toronto
- Twinsburg Public Library
- University of Sydney Library, Sydney - largest in the Southern Hemisphere
- Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver - Central Branch designed by Moshe Safdie
- 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
