| Name
|
Country
|
Location
|
Catalogued size
(number of items)
|
Visitors per year
|
Budget
|
Staff
|
| British Library
|
 United Kingdom
|
London and Boston Spa
|
_0180000000170–200 million
|
_00017500001.75 million
| _01410000000£141 million
|
_019771,977
|
| Library of Congress
|
 United States
|
Washington D.C.
|
_0168000000173 million+
|
_00017500001.9 million
|
_19523722680US$696.112 million
|
_036243,149
|
| New York Public Library
|
United States
|
New York City
|
_00550000075 million
|
_001800000018 million
|
_07546275000US$250 million[9]
|
_029373,000
|
| Shanghai Library
|
 China
|
Shanghai
|
_005000000056 million
|
_0001170000
|
_01640000000
|
_01972
|
| Library and Archives Canada
|
 Canada
|
Ottawa
|
_005400000054 million
|
|
_0116900000C$116.9 million
|
_00874874
|
| Russian State Library
|
 Russia
|
Moscow
|
_004440000048.1 million
|
_00011700000.498 million
|
_01640000000₽2.7 billion
|
_019721,613
|
| National Diet Library
|
 Japan
|
Tokyo and Kyoto
|
_004190000044.1 million
|
_0000654000791,370
|
_07128927000¥21.8 billion[14]
|
_00908908
|
| German National Library
|
 Germany
|
Leipzig and Frankfurt
|
_003420000043.7 million
|
_000029973350,713
|
_01834033100€57.6 million
|
_00622639
|
| Royal Library, Denmark
|
 Denmark
|
Copenhagen and Aarhus
|
_003540000042.5 million (physical items, excl. digital)
|
_00008503011.45 million
|
_02249892000523.8 million kr
|
_00492800+
|
| National Library of China
|
 China
|
Beijing
|
_003770000042.3 million
|
_00052000005.2 million
|
|
_013651,365
|
| Bibliothèque nationale de France
|
 France
|
Paris
|
_004000000040 million
|
_00013000001.3 million
|
_11038967000€254 million
|
_026682,668
|
| University of Illinois Library
|
United States
|
Urbana, Illinois
|
_004000000038 million
|
|
US$48.7 million_07546275000
|
|
| National Library of Russia
|
Russia
|
Saint Petersburg
|
_003650000036.5 million
|
_00009660001 million
|
₽569.2 million
|
1,850
|
| Bavarian State Library
|
Germany
|
Munich
|
_003420000034.4 million
|
_0000299731.1 million
|
_01834033100€59.1 million
|
_000029973805
|
| Biblioteca Nacional de España
|
 Spain
|
Madrid
|
_003310000033.1 million<
|
|
_02299060450€29.2 million
|
_01090482
|
| Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences
|
Russia
|
Saint Petersburg
|
_002650000026.5 million
|
|
|
|
| Berlin State Library
|
Germany
|
Berlin
|
_002340000023.4 million
|
_00014000001.4 million
|
|
|
| Boston Public Library
|
United States
|
Boston, Massachusetts
|
_002240000022.4 million
|
|
_01174200390US$38.9 million
|
|
| New York State Library
|
United States
|
Albany, New York
|
_002000000020 million
|
|
|
|
| Harvard Library
|
United States
|
Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
_001890000018.9 million
|
|
|
_00922922
|
| National Library of Sweden
|
 Sweden
|
Stockholm
|
_001800000018 million
|
|
364.5 million kr
|
|
| University of Michigan Library
|
United States
|
Ann Arbor, Michigan
|
_001520000016.1 million
|
|
|
|
| Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine
|
 Ukraine
|
Kyiv
|
_001500000015.5 million
|
_0000500000500,000
|
_0018860991050.3 million ₴
|
_00900900
|
| Yale Library
|
United States
|
New Haven, Connecticut
|
_001520000015.2 million
|
|
|
|
| National Library of Iran
|
 Iran
|
Tehran
|
_001500000015.0 million
|
|
|
|
