Libraries have been a part of the world’s most prominent place of information in history and today.
School libraries, public libraries, private libraries — whatever and any place they are, we love them all. For those of you not “of a particular age,” a library is a peaceful structure that houses huge loads of books and reference materials, normally tracing all the way back to old Pre-Internet Times.
The world has dominated in all strolls with the help of information that has been saved in structure and put away in the world’s greatest libraries. Established in 228 BC in Alexandria, Egypt, this library housed 700,000 parchments, Library of Alexandria is the most ancient in the world.
Numerous well-known scholars of the time-examined or worked in the library, including the cosmologists Aristarchus and Eratosthenes, the writer Callimachus, the mathematician Euclid, the researcher Herophilus, and the history specialist Manetho.
The library had a considerable lot of similar qualities to an advanced library, for instance, messages were coordinated by topic, government records were likewise held in the library, and there were references clarifying what sets of tablets and rooms contained.
We’d love to go through a day in any of these libraries making up for a lost time in the vibe it offers.
Here is the list of the Largest libraries in the world according to the size of the collection:
| Name | Country | Location | Catalogued size | Visitors per year | Budget | Staff |
| British Library | United Kingdom | London and Boston Spa | 170–200 million | 1.75 million | £141 million | 1,977 |
| Library of Congress | United States | Washington D.C. | 170 million+ | 1.9 million | US$696.112 million | 3,149 |
| Shanghai Library | China | Shanghai | 56 million | — | — | — |
| New York Public Library | United States | New York City | 55 million | 18 million | US$250 million | 3,000 |
| Library and Archives Canada | Canada | Ottawa | 54 million | — | C$116.9 million | 874 |
| Russian State Library | Russia | Moscow | 47.5 million | 1.12 million | 2.4 billion RUB | 1,699 |
| National Diet Library | Japan | Tokyo and Kyoto | 44.1 million | 7,91,370 | ¥21.8 billion | 908 |
| Royal Danish Library | Denmark | Copenhagen and Aarhus | 42.5 million (physical items, excl. digital) | 1.45 million | 523.8 million DKK | 800+ |
| Bibliothèque nationale de France | France | Paris | 40 million | 1.3 million | €254 million | 2,668 |
| National Library of China | China | Beijing | 37.7 million | 5.2 million | — | 1,365 |
| National Library of Russia | Russia | Saint Petersburg | 36.5 million | 1 million | — | — |
| German National Library | Germany | Leipzig and Frankfurt | 36.1 million | 3,50,713 | €54.9 million | 642 |
| Biblioteca Nacional de España | Spain | Madrid | 33.1 million | — | €29.2 million | 482 |
| Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences | Russia | Saint Petersburg | 26.5 million | — | — | — |
| Berlin State Library | Germany | Berlin | 23.4 million | 1.4 million | — | — |
| Boston Public Library | United States | Boston, Massachusetts | 22.4 million | — | US$38.9 million | — |
| New York State Library | United States | Albany, New York | 20 million | — | — | — |
| Harvard Library | United States | Cambridge, Massachusetts | 18.9 million | — | — | 922 |
| National Library of Sweden | Sweden | Stockholm | 18 million | — | 364.5 million SEK | — |
| Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine | Ukraine | Kyiv | 15.5 million | 5,00,000 | 50.3 million ₴ | 900 |
| Yale Library | United States | New Haven, Connecticut | 15.2 million | — | — | — |