Library

:Alternative meanings: Library (computer science), Library (electronics), Library (biology)

Some famous libraries

• Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh
• Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) in Paris
• Bodleian Library at University of Oxford
• British Library in London
• Cambridge University Library at University of Cambridge
• Carolina Rediviva at Uppsala University
• Dutch Royal Library in The Hague
• Egypt's ancient Library of Alexandria and modern Bibliotheca Alexandrina
• Fisher Library at the University of Sydney (largest in the Southern Hemisphere)
• Free Library of Philadelphia in Philadelphia
• Garrison Library in Gibraltar
• Jenkins Law Library in Philadelphia
• John Rylands Library in Manchester
• Leiden University Library at Leiden University in Leiden
• Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
• Library of Sir Thomas Browne
• National Library of Australia in Canberra, Australia
• New York Public Library in New York
• Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
• Persia's ancient Library of Gondishapur
• Russian National Library in St Petersburg
• Russian State Library in Moscow
• Royal Library in Copenhagen
• Staatsbibliothek in Berlin
• Vatican Library in Vatican City

Other libraries:

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• The St. Phillips Church Parsonage Provincial Library, established in 1698 in Charleston, South Carolina, was the first public lending library in the American Colonies. See also Benjamin Franklin's free public library in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Boston Public Library, an early public lending library in America, was established in 1848.
• Haskell Free Library and Opera House, "The only library in America with no books".
• St. Marys Church, Reigate, Surrey houses the first public lending library in England. Opened 14 March 1701.

Some libraries devoted to a single subject:

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• Chess libraries
• Esperanto libraries
• Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, the world's largest genealogy library.

For more extensive lists, see

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• List of libraries that are the subject of a Wikipedia article
• List of libraries
• List of national libraries
• List of university libraries