compiled by Peter Y. Chou, WisdomPortal.com

Top 69 Academic Libraries (yellow) & 31 Public Libraries (blue)

Rank	Library	Books
1	Library of Congress	23,994,965
2	Harvard University	13,617,133
3	New York Public Library	11,445,971
4	Yale University	9,932,080
5	Queen's Borough Public Library	9,237,300
6	University of Illinois— Urbana	9,024,298
7	University of California— Berkeley	8,628,028
8	Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public	8,582,637
9	Chicago Public Library	8,100,000
10	Free Library of Philadelphia	7,891,532
11	University of Texas	7,495,275
12	County of Los Angeles Public Library	7,425,092
13	University of California— Los Angeles	7,010,234
14	University of Michigan	6,973,162
15	Columbia University	6,905,609
16	Stanford University	6,865,158
17	Boston Public Library	6,709,907
18	Brooklyn Public Library	6,630,186
19	Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh	6,582,144
20	University of Chicago	6,116,978
21	Cornell University	6,113,346
22	University of Indiana	5,916,992
23	University of Wisconsin	5,824,639
24	Los Angeles Public Library	5,743,103
25	University of Washington	5,715,202
26	Princeton University	5,516,141
27	University of Minnesota	5,490,668
28	Houston Public Library	5,187,973
29	Ohio State University	5,087,336
30	University of North Carolina	4,819,186
31	Duke University	4,645,050
32	University of Pennsylvania	4,546,667
33	University of Arizona	4,442,861
34	University of Virginia	4,433,628
35	Michigan State University	4,118,032
36	Pennsylvania State University	3,934,344
37	Northwestern University	3,893,005
38	University of Iowa	3,822,656
39	University of Pittsburgh	3,819,100
40	King County Library System (Seattle)	3,677,923
41	Rutgers University	3,633,792
42	New York University	3,629,897
43	University of Kansas	3,532,810
44	University of Georgia	3,458,298
45	University of Southern California	3,417,928
46	Buffalo & Erie County Public Library	3,414,367
47	Miami-Dade Public Library System	3,357,879
48	Cleveland Public Library	3,320,353
49	University of Florida	3,317,781
50	Arizona State University	3,278,332
51	Washington University— St. Louis	3,234,005
52	Johns Hopkins University	3,224,741
53	Center for Research Libraries (Chicago)	3,127,913
54	Cuyahoga County Public Library (Cleveland)	3,088,098
55	Hawaii State Public Library System	3,077,276
56	State University of New York— Buffalo	3,047,830
57	St. Louis County Library	3,023,237
58	Wayne State University	3,002,261
59	University of South Carolina	2,998,008
60	McGill University (Montreal, Canada)	2,994,156
61	University of Rochester	2,962,157
62	Louisiana State University	2,950,442
63	University of California— Davis	2,949,213
64	Brown University	2,932,818
65	Dallas Public Library	2,932,589
66	University of Hawaii	2,925,821
67	District of Columbia Public Library	2,863,749
68	University of Connecticut	2,828,359
69	University of Massachusetts	2,826,284
70	University of Missouri	2,816,452
71	Detroit Public Library	2,804,428
72	Mid-Continent Public Library (Independence, MO)	2,789,218
73	Milwaukee Public Library	2,756,657
74	Jacksonville Public Library	2,721,642
75	University of Colorado	2,715,702
76	Syracuse University	2,712,132
77	University of Kentucky	2,679,084
78	San Diego Public Library	2,670,375
79	Fairfax County Public Library (Fairfax, VA)	2,666,615
80	University of Maryland	2,626,800
81	North Carolina State University	2,618,615
82	University of Oklahoma	2,640,071
83	University of Utah	2,608,118
84	University of Notre Dame	2,583,669
85	Montgomery County Public Library (Rockville, MD)	2,583,225
86	University of California— San Diego	2,531,418
87	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	2,493,927
88	Enoch Pratt Free Library (Baltimore)	2,477,468
89	Auburn University	2,464,666
90	Brigham Young University	2,462,966
91	Toledo-Lucas County Public Library (Ohio)	2,452,740
92	Texas A&M University	2,447,598
93	Vanderbilt University	2,442,771
94	University of Nebraska	2,442,115
95	Columbus Metropolitan Library (Ohio)	2,433,636
96	University of California— Santa Barbara	2,396,611
97	San Francisco Public Library	2,393,837
98	Emory University	2,369,065
99	Kent State University	2,346,014
100	Temple University	2,345,342

Sources: ARL Statistics 1996-97,Association of Research Libraries (1998)
Public Library Data Service: Statistical Report 98,Public Library Association (1998)

2001-2003 Listing of Top 100 Libraries by American Library Association

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