Talk:Columbia University Library System

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How is Columbia's the third-largest library in the state? The New York Public Library is bigger (it has 15.6 million volumes), but what else could be? Columbia's 9.3 million-volume collection is significantly larger than Cornell's (7.6 million), NYU's (4.9 million), Rochester's (3.6 million) or the largest of the SUNY libraries (Buffalo, with 3.4 million). All of the SUNY libraries combined are probably larger than Columbia's, but I don't think anybody counts them all as a single library. CUNY's libraries have a total of 7.5 million, so if someone is counting these as single collections Columbia would indeed be third -- behind NYPL and the combined SUNY libraries but ahead of Cornell and CUNY. I just can't believe that's how somebody came up with the statistic.