America's Largest Libraries By Number of Volumes (2012)
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Number of volumes | |
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Library of Congress | 34528818 |
Boston Public Library | 19090261 |
Harvard University | 16832952 |
New York Public Library | 16342365 |
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 13158748 |
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Sources:
ala.org
The top five libraries by volume of books consist of a mix of public libraries and large universities. In total, there were over 120,000 libraries on record in the U.S. in 2014.