Heres the recently updated ALA Fact Sheet about that ranking of the nation’s largest libraries:
The Nation’s Largest Libraries: A Listing By Volumes Held
1 Library of Congress
2 Harvard University
3 Boston Public Library
4 Yale University
5 University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
6 University of California – Berkeley
7 Columbia University
8 University of Texas – Austin
9 Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County
10 University of Michigan
11 Indiana University
12 University of Chicago
13 Stanford University
14 University of California – Los Angeles
15 Cornell University
16 University of Wisconsin – Madison
17 County of Los Angeles Public Library
18 University of Washington
19 Detroit Public Library
20 Princeton University
21 University of Minnesota
22 Queens Borough Public Library
23 University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
24 Ohio State University
25 New York Public Library, The Branch Libraries
26 Los Angeles Public Library
27 University of Pennsylvania
28 Duke University
29 University of Arizona
30 Chicago Public Library
31 University of Pittsburgh
32 University of Virginia
33 Dallas Public Library
34 Pennsylvania State University
35 University of Oklahoma
36 New York University
37 Michigan State University
38 University of Iowa
39 Hennepin County Library
40 Northwestern University
41 Free Library of Philadelphia
42 University of Georgia
43 Cleveland Public Library
44 Rutgers University
45 Arizona State University
46 University of Florida
47 University of Kansas
48 Washington University – St. Louis
49 Miami-Dade Public Library System
50 University of Southern California
51 Louisiana State University
52 Brigham Young University
53 Brooklyn Public Library
54 North Carolina State University
55 Houston Public Library
56 Texas A&M University
57 University of Colorado
58 University of Connecticut
59 Brown University
60 Johns Hopkins University
61 State University of New York – Buffalo
62 University of Kentucky
63 King County Library System
64 University of Maryland
65 University of Rochester
66 University of California – Davis
67 Hawaii State Public Library System
68 Wayne State University
69 San Diego Public Library
70 University of Cincinnati
71 University of South Carolina
72 University of Massachusetts
73 University of Hawaii
74 University of Missouri – Columbia
75 Vanderbilt University
76 Mid-Continent Public Library
77 Broward County Libraries Division
78 University of Notre Dame
79 St. Louis Public Library
80 Emory University
81 University of Utah
82 University of California – San Diego
83 Cuyahoga County Public Library
84 Montgomery County Dept. of Public Libraries
85 University of Tennessee – Knoxville
86 University of Miami
87 Tulane University
88 Buffalo & Erie County Public Library
89 Temple University
90 University of Nebraska – Lincoln
91 Allen County Public Library
92 Syracuse University
93 Southern Illinois University – Carbondale
94 Jacksonville Public Library
95 Auburn University
96 University of California – Irvine
97 Georgetown
98 University of Oregon
99 University of California – Santa Barbara
100 Massachsetts Institute of Technology
Other Fact Sheets and FAQ’s include:
ALA Library Fact Sheet 1 – Number of Libraries in the USA
ALA Library Fact Sheet 2 – Number Employed in Libraries
ALA Library Fact Sheet 3 – Lists of Libraries
ALA Library Fact Sheet 4 – Library Operating Expenditures
ALA Library Fact Sheet 5 – Marketing to Libraries
ALA Library Fact Sheet 6 – Public Library Use
ALA Library Fact Sheet 7 – Video and Copyright
ALA Library Fact Sheet 8 – Interlibrary Loans
ALA Library Fact Sheet 9 – Library Products, Consultants
ALA Library Fact Sheet 10 – Disaster Response Bibliography
ALA Library Fact Sheet 11 – Building Libraries Bibliography
ALA Library Fact Sheet 12 – Book Donation Information
ALA Library Fact Sheet 14 – Moving Libraries
ALA Library Fact Sheet 15 – Weeding Bibliography
ALA Library Fact Sheet 16 – Setting Up A Library
ALA Library Fact Sheet 17 – Library Summer Reading Programs
ALA Library Fact Sheet 18 – How to Acquire Cataloging Tools
ALA Library Fact Sheet 19 – Virtual Reference
ALA Library Fact Sheet 20 – Joint-Use Libraries Bibliography
ALA Library Fact Sheet 21 – Library Automation Bibliography
ALA Library Fact Sheet 22 – Top 100 Libraries (per collection)
ALA Library Fact Sheet 23 – Recommended Reading
ALA Library Fact Sheet 24 – Library Fund Raising
ALA Library Fact Sheet 25 – RFID: A Brief Bibliography
ALA Library Fact Sheet 26 – Internet Use in Libraries
ALA Library Fact Sheet 28 – ISBN and ISSN Systems
ALA Library Fact Sheet 29 – Links to Library Web Resources
ALA Library Fact Sheet 30 – National Library Symbol
Frequently Asked Questions from Authors and Publishers
Frequently Asked Questions About Books and Reading
Stephen
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let’s check this list in a few years when all these universities go electronic and cut their physical volumes by 50-75%…