What is the largest library in the world from which the general public can borrow materials?
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Max Power
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The United States Library of Congress in Washington D.C. ranks as the largest library in the world.The nation's library holds over 118 million items which require more than 500 miles of shelving. Source - Guinness World Records Edit - http://www.loc.gov/law/public/law-faq.html http://www.loc.gov/today/ "The Library's mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations." http://www.loc.gov/about/
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I don't know if the building is the largest, but the library with the largest public collection is the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign library. -Largest public university collection in the world with over 10 million volumes -On average, 1.2 million items circulate and 293,000 reference questions answered each year -Online catalog accessed more than one million times weekly -More than 40 departmental libraries and divisions
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Founded by Thomas Carlyle in 1841, the London Library is now the largest independent lending library in the world. It has a proud tradition of serving generations of readers, writers, scholars and researchers by lending material from its extensive collection, which now exceeds one million books and periodical volumes. Membership is open to all.
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