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what constitutes a "book", how to count multi-volume works do you count them as multiple works or a single volume, whether to count manuscripts, how to count bound journals, what constitutes a pamphlet versus a book or even a common international standard in terms of how books or items are stored in relation to shelf space, meaning all this talk of which collection is greater and indeed the mass of stats and figures produced are often just pointless and irrelevant in terms of international comparisons. The fact being that a lot of items including books, articles, magazines, newspapers etc are not even kept on shelves anymore but in special warehouses in special low oxygen conditions (not conducive to human workers health), where robots electronically identify items housed in masses of individual plastic totes.

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BBC Archives, and there are numerous other such examples. If you wanted to learn about Science for instance you might very well go to the Science Museum Library in London, or in terms of the natural world the Natural History Museum Library in London, or in terms of Maritime events the National Maritime Museum Library in Greenwich in London or in terms of Medicine you might take a short walk from the British Library to the Wellcome Collection Library on Euston Road or if you wanted to know about communications you might visit the BT Archive in London or in terms of war you might visit the Imperial War Museum Library in London etc etc.

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all contradictory. The website states, 'Our collection of around 170 million items includes some of the most iconic treasures from a variety of cultures...' while claiming that 'the collection includes well over 150 million items, in most known languages' . Note that the second page states WELL OVER 150 million items. Unless we decide to be rid of these sorts of comparisons altogether, it seems we really must stop changing this unless new information becomes available.

975:, it states that the LOC shelves measure 850 km, while the British Library shelves measure 625 km. Larger, but not double. The LOC has more books, the BL has more catalogued items in total. You can surmise that the cataloging systems are different, but there's no evidence on that question one way or the other. What we have are some facts, which should be stated clearly and in a way that allows readers to make their own judgements as to what "counts". 365:

Where the BL has more discrete volumes than LC, LC's fewer number of volumes occupy more physical space. I think this correlates with what I've heard about BL's retention policy, BL is required to keep everything it receives on copyright deposit, where LC isn't. Put another way, if x has ten two-page pamphlets and y has one 500 page monograph, who has the larger collection? It depends on what you're counting.

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Consortium in London and the South East and even the European Library. These services include the British Library and a host of other specialist libraries across the UK and Ireland, meaning that unique information can be found and accessed far more easily, and also meaning that you can search beyond the contents of the British Library, National Archives at Kew and National Libraries of Scotland and Wales.

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bytes, an difference by a factor 10 000 000. In addition to this most libraries contains music, movies and so on how are they counted, they are often already digital and requires much data storage. So the questions are what media to include?, text or scaned images?, wath resolution?, how many colors?, compresed or uncompressed?, what compression algorithm?.--

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my part, I would guess that book numbers would be the most reliable indication of a library's size, indicating that the LOC is larger than the BL. Surely the huge difference in shelf space inhabited by materials (a measurement favoring the LOC) indicates that something must be taking up space there to the disadvantage of the BL.

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methods. Anyone who would want to dispute that the LOC is thus larger must somehow demonstrate what is placed on those extra miles of shelving. The only legitimate excuse might be some difference in the way materials are stored, but this seems unlikely, as most libraries, in my experience, use the same systems.

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but this is misleading because the Library contains many items in addition to books, such as manuscripts, photographs, maps, and sound recordings, that, if digitized, would amount to much more information. The Library currently has no plans for systematic digitization of any significant portion of its books.

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People who work in libraries often calculate the sum of owned items differently, thus any final comparison between item numbers is suspect. In one collection, for example, files might be counted as single items, whereas in another collection, every part of the file might be numbered individually. For

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My point being that the British Library is not the be all and end all and that unlike the Library of Congress it's not responsible for many national collections including such vast areas as film and broadcasting. So the collection size is limted by it's remit, whilst there is also no one standard for

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under "occupying" states 10 or 20 TB not PB. It is very hard to give the size of a library in bytes whiteout specifying the storage format, a uncompressed scanned high resolution image of a page can be 3GB, the plain text can be about 3 KB and with state of the art compression it can be stored in 300

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of information (10 in other quotations), based on the amount of cataloged books in the Library of Congress classification system (20 million in 2007) and estimating one megabyte of text per book. This leads many people to conclude that 20 petabytes is equivalent to the entire holdings of the Library,

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Wow, thank you for a whole litany of irrelevant information. Since you seem to want to tell us how many book are in every library in the UK, I think one would be safe in assuming that if you added up every single book in every single public and university library in the US, it would make the number

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Finally to put things in to perspective, the New York Times reported in 2006 that "From the days of Sumerian clay tablets till now, humans have "published" at least 32 million books, 750 million articles and essays, 25 million songs, 500 million images, 500,000 movies, 3 million videos, TV shows and

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re: largest library... 6th Feb, 2006: I think it very much varies depending on what you're counting. I think on total items, the British Library wins outright by a fair margin, owing to the vast amounts of newspapers and historical items that are held. I have heard both referred to as 'the largest'

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In the section "Weakening", a sentence reads "Joseph Henry...favored the Library of Congress' development into the national library." However, from the context, it is clear that Henry was AGAINST that. Perhaps the sentence should state that he favored the Smithsonian's development into the national

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The Library of Congress Office, New Delhi, is one of six overseas offices administered by the Overseas Operations Division of the Library. These offices acquire, catalog, preserve, and distribute library and research materials from countries where such materials are essentially unavailable through

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I changed this before but it has been reverted. To clarify, The British Library claims to have a collection of 170 million items. The confusion about 150 million is coming from misreading the information. As I have pointed out on The British Library's talk page, the institution's website is not at

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So it's actually becoming a question of who keeps the most crap, the British Library or the LOC who have vast storage facilities at Fort Meade as well as other facilities such as the National Audio Visual Conservation at Culpeper VA in a former underground Federal Reserve cash storage facility now

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It also should be noted that many national collections are not kept at the British Library, for example the National Poetry Library is at the Royal Festival Hall in London, the National Art Library is at the V&A in London, whilst films and TV catalogues are kept at the BFI National Archive and

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The issue here is many US museums and cultural institutions lay claim to the largest, longest, highest, widest, biggest, tallest...these are unnecessary additions, without support are defunct. Previously the article laid claim to the LoC being the largest library in the world, however in terms of

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On the Libary of Congress's website, it says, "18.Who can use the Library and check out books? The Library of Congress is a research library, and books are used only on the premises by members of the public. Anyone age 16 and older may use the collections. All patrons using the Library's reading

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I am certain that the minimum age for obtaining a reader's card has been lowered to sixteen, since several of my classmates and I were able to obtain them for research, and none of us are out of high school. None of us are Congressional pages, and we don't have any other special status that would

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Hmm, I don't think use of superlatives is a uniquely American thing, after all, isn't Windsor Castle "the oldest royal residence still in use"? I think the difference in size is a matter of occupied shelf space (with thousands of books on the floor, there's little "potential" space left at LC).

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Both the BL and the LOC are currently claiming to have the same number of items, though in somewhat general terms. Both are claiming to hold “over” or “more than” “170 million items.” I think the relevant text of each article needs to be changed to read that each, together with the other, is the

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The greater size of the LOC is a generally held fact amongst international library professionals. As mentioned in the above post, the LOC uses up about twice the shelving space that the BL does. Item numbers are irrelevant in libraries unless they have to do with books due to different counting

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The New Delhi Office acquires library materials for the Library of Congress and the South Asia Cooperative Acquisitions Program (SACAP) from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka, and Tibetan titles available in several South Asian countries. The Office also maintains a

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Hi. Actually, the Library of Congress has three builings in the neighborhood of the U.S. Capitol. I volunteer at the Jefferson Building, which houses the beautiful Main Reading Room and is open to public tours. The other two buldings are the Adams and the Madison. Additionally, there is a

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To mention such scant details of each of the three library building seems almost pointless. It would be a tremendous improvement to mention which collections are housed in each building, and who is allowed access to each. Also, in the article there is little information provided regarding the

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In reality being a National Copyright Library is a thankless and even thoroughly depressing task as the Guardian article from 2007 below clearly points out in a humorous manner, and whilst the British Library tries desperately to build ever bigger warehouses at Boston Spa on top of the vast

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It's not irrelevant as many libraries are part of larger inter-lending groups meaning you can look for and even reserve books accross a number of academic, reference and lending libraries. Copac is one such example in the UK and Ireland, a further service is Sconul and there is also The M25

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Is there a reliable (unbiased) source that states which of the two libraries is larger? If not, then the best we can do is report that the LoC "claims to be" the largest in the world. We can't say it is, or that it isn't, unless there is a reliable source behind that conclusion.

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March 24, 2014 Update. Didn't get help to update numbers and I wanted to get the numbers accurate, they were three years old, so I made the changes. This is a non-controversial edit with no CIO. Just want to help make Knowledge better. ScienceJen 23:28, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

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The Library of Congress is a stunning building, and it's collection is extremely large although not as large as many have claimed, it has 20,854,810 cataloged books, the often cited figure of 32 million applying to all books and other print materials rather than exclusively

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The article says that the Library of Congress has one of the only three copies of perfect (assuming complete) vellum Gutenberg Bibles remaining in the World. But at the Gutenberg Bible entry there are enumerated up to 5 complete vellum volumes, (and a number of incomplete

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The Exchange and Gift program has been an integral facet of the Delhi Office's acquisitions operations since the opening of the Office in 1962. Through this program the Office acquires materials that would otherwise not be available. Read more about exchange programs »

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This article seems to give no source for "de facto" and the linked list's source is the Library of Congress home page, which says nothing about its "de jure" status. Unless someone can come up with better sourcing, I think "de facto" can be taken out of the lead here.

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It should also be remembered that National Libraries such as the British Library and Library of Congress work together in a common purpose in order to perserve the worlds rarest and most wonderful books, and they are not in some kind of competition with each other.

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rooms and/or collections must have a user card with a photo on it. User cards can be obtained at the reader registration station in Room LM140 of the Madison Building by presenting a driver's license or passport and completing a brief self-registration process."

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It seems that this debate should at least be referenced in the article. Also, as it stands, this page claims that the LOC is the largest library in the world by number of items, which we all disagree with. Another problem is that this page seems to disagree with

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Whether or not the legal deposit libaries in Britain and Ireland (British Isles) are the biggest in the world is not really the issue, what is important is that they are certainly amongst the most interesting in terms of the many rare collections they hold.

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in various sources. The LOC states on its website it holds 130 million items, 'making it the largest in the world'... but the British Library states it holds 150 million items. So, as you say in the States, go figure! Having been to both, I prefer the BL!

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at St Pancras, London's Local Authority 'Public Libraries' (including many major reference and central libraries), stock an additional 16 million books as well as 2.7 million CDs, with around 1.6 million new books added to the library stock each year.

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objects, the British Library is the largest and though the LoC has a massive collection it's claim to fame as the largest derives from the shelf space availble to house current and potential books not acutally from the number of objects housed.ç

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It is false and missleeding, the source talks about 20 PB if scaned as images not as plain text, 20 million times 1 MB is 20 TB not 20 PB. I think this should be corrected and reinserted but i do not know how it should be stated in a clear way.

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I've tried to clarify the lede, but I think it remains much too long. All but the first and last (or maybe last two) paragraphs should be moved to the history sections. A task, I reckon, for someone more familiar with the material.

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underground vaults at St Pancras, the UK National Archive at Kew has started using a salt mine in Cheshire to shove low usage contents down, such are the complications of storing such vast collections of items and data.

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In every encyclopedia i have seen (britannica etc), the LOC is listed as the largest library in the world, much larger than the British Library which is according to this article the largest. Can anyone clarify this?

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For your information, the Library of Congress has done a website overhaul of their Prints & Photographs Online Catalog and many more pictures are available in higher resolution than before. Try your searches with

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In terms of shelf space the British Library has recently opened a massive new storage facility in 2008 at Boston Spa. The new facility has 262 kilometres (163 miles) of shelf space and room for over 7 million books.

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Collection size: cataloged books (23,592,066), incunabula (5,711), monographs...other printed material (13,344,477), items in nonclassified special collections (121,070,522), and total items (158,007,115)

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restricted web site to disseminate bibliographic and other information of interest to libraries participating in the program. Learn more about cooperative acquisitions » || Exchange and Gift Program ||

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short films and 100 billion public Web pages. All this material is currently contained in all the libraries and archives of the world". "Scan This Book!" - Kevin Kelly - May 14, 2006 - New York Times.

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Well to take the term in it's literal sense, the "largest library" would be the Library of Congress, while the British Library would be perhaps the most extensive or one that houses the most books.

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Calling it "one of the most important" libraries in the world seems fine...I mean, I doubt anyone would disagree that it is. The statement isn't saying that there arn't other important ones.

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different collections; this seems an important detail especially in the midst of claims of being the largest and/or most important library in the world. Please provide these details.

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A further estimate suggested that global published books now approached 65 million titles, however it remain difficult to accurately gauge total world wide publication figures.

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Perhaps its time for an update? One of the links says that the LoC has 151 million in 2010, which I assume has grown since then. Has the British Library matched this growth?

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We also need to change the Thomas reference to Congress.gov in the paragraph about online archive of the proceedings of the U.S. Congress at Congress.gov- might you make the

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London is also home to many of the most highly respected academic and specialist libraries in the world, with over 21 million books held in London Academic Libraries.

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known as the Packard Campus. Even the Bodleian Library has now had to build tin sheds on industrial estates to house some of it's collection - LOL

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facility in the Fort Meade, Maryland, area that houses several million items from the collection. So, the library is not one single building.

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The European Union estimates that the European libraries hold in total more than 2.5 billion (2,500 million) books and bound periodicals,

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library in the world? If not, that statement does not belong in the article. What we can say, as an indisputable fact, is that the LOC

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exempt us from the rules. I don't really know where to go cite proof of this, just the fact that I have a reader's card in my wallet.

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it said it's "(de jure)". Which is correct? If it's both de jure and de facto, do we really need to mark it? --

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The majority of the numbers cited in the LC article needs to be updated to represent the current 2013 totals.

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in London, there are five other such legal deposit libraries (holding in the region of 35 million books):The

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The Library holds more than 158 million items with more than 36 million books and other printed material...

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Nearly 16,000 new items published in U.S. arrive every business day...add average of 12,000 items per day

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and the European National Library Collections can be searched at the European Library Website.

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There are also some of the largest museum libraries in the world amongst London's 250 museums.

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In this article it said LoC is "the de facto national library of the United States". But in

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Can anyone please tell me the actual length of the building itself?

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I don't see what nationality has to do with all of this.

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