List of libraries

This is an alphabetical list of notable libraries around the world. It includes both notable public lending libraries and research libraries.

A

 * Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, Scotland
 * African Heritage Research Library and Cultural Centre, Adeyipo Village, Ibadan, Nigeria
 * Alexandria Library, Alexandria, Virginia, United States
 * Alice Springs Public Library, Alice Springs, Australia
 * Allahabad Public Library, Allahabad, India
 * Allegheny County Library Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
 * Aloghar Library, Dhaka, Bangladesh
 * American Memorial Library, Berlin, Germany
 * Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
 * Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
 * Argostoli Public Library, Kefalonia, Greece
 * Arlanza Branch Library, Riverside, California, United States
 * Astan Quds Razavi's Central Library, Mashhad, Iran
 * Australian National University Library, Canberra, Australia

B

 * Baltimore County Public Library, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
 * Barrow-in-Furness Main Public Library, Cumbria, England
 * Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
 * Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
 * Beit Ariela, Tel Aviv, Israel
 * Berlin Art Library (Kunstbibliothek Berlin), Berlin, Germany
 * Berlin Central and Regional Library, Berlin, Germany
 * Berlin State Library, Berlin, Germany
 * Bhaikaka Library, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India
 * Biblioteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
 * Biblioteca Estense, Modena, Italy
 * Biblioteca Municipal Fernando Piteira Santos,Lisbon, Portugal
 * Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago, Chile
 * Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, Spain
 * Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal
 * Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze, Firenze, Italy
 * Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Roma, Rome, Italy
 * Biblioteca Nacional, San Jose, Costa Rica
 * Biblioteca Pública de Pichilemu, Pichilemu, Chile
 * Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
 * Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
 * Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, France
 * Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations, Paris, France
 * Birmingham Central Library, England
 * Bizzell Memorial Library, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States
 * Bodleian Library, Oxford, England
 * Boston Public Library, United States
 * Botanical Research Institute of Texas Library, Fort Worth, Texas, United States
 * British Library, London, England
 * British Library of Political and Economic Science, London, England
 * Brooklyn Public Library, United States
 * Broward County Library, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
 * Bugvia library, Bhera, Pakistan
 * Burton Barr Central Library, Phoenix, Arizona, United States

C

 * Cal Poly Pomona University Library at Cal Poly Pomona, United States
 * Calgary Public Library, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
 * Cambridge University Library, England
 * Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
 * Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
 * Carolina Rediviva at Uppsala University, Sweden
 * Catholic National Library, Farnborough, Hampshire, England
 * Center for Jewish History, Manhattan, United States
 * Cerritos Millennium Library in Cerritos, California, United States
 * Changhua City Library, Changhua County, Taiwan
 * Charles V. Park Library at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States
 * Charleston County Public Library, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States
 * Chekhov Library in Taganrog, Russia
 * Chetham's Library in Manchester, England
 * Chicago Public Library, Chicago, Illinois, United States
 * Chincoteague Island Library, Chincoteague Island, Virginia, United States
 * Chongqing Library, Chongqing, China
 * Cincinnati Public Library, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
 * City of Playford Library Service in Adelaide, Australia
 * Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
 * Clinton-Macomb Public Library, Clinton Charter Township, Michigan, United States
 * College of DuPage Library, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, United States
 * Cologne Public Library, Cologne, Germany
 * Columbia Public Library, Columbia, Missouri, United States
 * Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, Ohio, United States
 * Connemara Public Library, Chennai, India
 * Contra Costa County Library, Pleasant Hill, California, United States
 * Cornish Studies Centre, Redruth, Cornwall, England
 * Cory Library for Historical Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
 * Cosy Nook Library, Bangalore, India
 * County of Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles County, California, United States
 * Cuyahoga County Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio, United States

D

 * Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark
 * David Lubin Memorial Library, Rome, Italy
 * Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Michigan
 * Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig, Leipzig
 * District of Columbia Public Library
 * Doe Library, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
 * Dr. Mahmud Hussain Library, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan
 * Dr. Vijay Pal Memorial Library, Delhi, India
 * Dr Williams's Library, Bloomsbury, London
 * Drill Hall Library, Chatham, Kent, England
 * Duchess Anna Amalia Library, Weimar, Germany
 * Dyal Singh Trust Library, Lahore, Pakistan

E

 * Edmonton Public Library, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
 * Elyachar Central Library, Haifa, Israel
 * Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
 * EveningHour Library, Hyderabad, India

F

 * Fairfax County Public Library, Fairfax, Virginia, United States
 * Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
 * Film Reference Library, Toronto, Canada
 * Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, United States
 * Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum, London, United Kingdom
 * Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States
 * Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

G

 * German Central Library for the Blind, Leipzig, Germany
 * German National Library, Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig, Berlin, Germany
 * German National Library of Economics, Kiel and Hamburg
 * German National Library of Medicine, Cologne and Bonn
 * German National Library of Science and Technology, Hanover
 * Ghalib Library, Karachi, Pakistan
 * Glasgow University Library, Scotland
 * Göttingen State and University Library, Germany
 * Grande Bibliothèque du Québec, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
 * Guangzhou Library, Guangzhou, China
 * Greifswald University Library, Greifswald, Germany

H

 * Halifax Central Library
 * Haskell Free Library and Opera House
 * Hesburgh Library, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States
 * Hessian State Library, Wiesbaden, Germany
 * Hershey Public Library, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
 * Hilandar Research Library, Ohio State University, United States
 * Williams Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
 * Homer Babbidge Library, University of Connecticut, Storrs, United States
 * Hong Kong Central Library, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island
 * Houston Public Library, Houston, Texas, United States
 * Hummelstown Public Library, Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, United States
 * Huntington Library, San Marino, California, United States

I

 * Illinois State Library, Springfield, Illinois, United States
 * List of libraries in Isfahan
 * Imperial College London Abdus Salam Library, London, England
 * Imperial Library of Constantinople
 * Indianapolis Public Library, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
 * International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers
 * International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

J

 * Jacksonville Public Library
 * James V. Brown Library
 * Jenkins Law Library, Philadelphia
 * John Crerar Library
 * John Rylands Library
 * John Rylands University Library
 * Jubilee Library, Brighton

K

 * Kedermister Library
 * Kenton County Public Library, Kentucky
 * Kenton County Public Library, Oregon
 * Khaliq Dina Hall, Karachi, Pakistan
 * Klaukkala Library, Klaukkala, Finland
 * Knight Library, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
 * Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Netherlands

L

 * Leiden University Library, Leiden, Netherlands
 * Liberei
 * Library of Alexandria, Ancient Egypt
 * Library of Birmingham, Birmingham
 * Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
 * Library of Parliament, Ottawa
 * Library of Sir Thomas Browne
 * Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences
 * Library of Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
 * Lied Library, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
 * Lilly Library, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana
 * Linen Hall Library, Belfast
 * Lithuanian Technical Library, Vilnius
 * London Library
 * Los Angeles Central Library
 * Louisville Free Public Library, Louisville, Kentucky
 * Louisville Public Library, Louisville, Ohio, USA
 * Ludwigshafen University Library, Ludwigshafen, Germany
 * Luís Ángel Arango Library, Bogotá, Colombia

M

 * Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, Nepal
 * Makerere University Library, Uganda
 * Malcolm A. Love Library (San Diego State University), San Diego, California
 * Malek National Library, Tehran, Iran
 * Manchester Central Library, England
 * Marathon County Public Library (MCPL), Wausau, Wisconsin
 * Mário de Andrade Library in São Paulo
 * Mark O. Hatfield Library, at Willamette University
 * Marsh's Library in Dublin
 * Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius
 * Masood Jhandir Research Library, Mailsi, Pakistan
 * Maughan Library at King's College London
 * McGill University Library, Montreal
 * Merton College Library, at Merton College, Oxford (oldest continually functioning library in the world)
 * Miami-Dade Public Library System
 * Michigan State University Libraries
 * Milli Kütüphane (National Library of Turkey, Ankara)
 * Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota
 * Mitchell Library, Glasgow
 * Moncton Public Library, Moncton, New Brunswick
 * Montgomery County Public Libraries, Rockville, Maryland
 * Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
 * Merri-bek City Libraries, City of Merri-bek, Australia
 * Morton Grove Public Library, Morton Grove, Illinois
 * Multnomah County Library, Multnomah County, Oregon
 * Musical Electronics Library, Auckland, New Zealand

N

 * National Agricultural Library
 * National Central Library, Florence
 * National Central Library, Rome
 * National Diet Library, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan
 * National Library of Armenia, Yerevan
 * National Library of Australia, Canberra
 * National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
 * National Library of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
 * National Library of Canada
 * National Library of China, Beijing, China
 * National Library of India, Kolkata
 * National Library of Iran, Tehran
 * National Library of Ireland, Dublin
 * National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
 * National Library of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
 * National Library of Medicine
 * National Library of New Zealand, Wellington
 * National Library of Nigeria, Abuja
 * National Library of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan
 * National Library of Public Information, Taichung, Taiwan
 * National Library of Russia in St Petersburg
 * National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
 * National Library of Serbia, Belgrade
 * National Library of South Africa, Cape Town and Pretoria
 * National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
 * National Library, Singapore
 * New Orleans Public Library
 * New York Public Library, New York, New York
 * Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois
 * Nottingham Subscription Library, Nottingham

O

 * Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * O'Meara Mathematics Library, Notre Dame, Indiana
 * Orange County Library System, Orlando, Florida
 * Oregon State Library, Salem, Oregon
 * Orlando East Public Library, Soweto, South Africa
 * Ottawa Public Library, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

P

 * Pack Memorial Library, Asheville, North Carolina
 * Palm Beach County Library System, West Palm Beach, Florida
 * Park Ridge Public Library, Park Ridge, Illinois
 * Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
 * Peckham Library
 * Peking University Library, Beijing, China
 * Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge
 * Perpustakaan Tun Sri Lanang, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi
 * Pikes Peak Library District, Colorado Springs, Colorado
 * Plainfield Public Library District, Plainfield, Illinois
 * Powell Library, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
 * Prince George's County Memorial Library System, Largo, Maryland
 * Pritzker Military Library, Chicago, Illinois
 * Public Library (Közkincs Könyvtár), Budapest
 * Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County
 * Punjab Public Library, Lahore

Q

 * Quaid-e-Azam Library, Lahore
 * Queens Library, New York, New York

R

 * Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
 * Regina Public Library, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
 * Rhodes University Library, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
 * Rock Island Public Library, Rock Island, Illinois
 * Robarts Library, University of Toronto, Canada
 * Royal Danish Library
 * Royal Library of Sweden
 * Ruskin Library at Lancaster University, UK
 * Russian State Children's Library, Moscow
 * Russian State Library, Moscow

S

 * Sacramento Public Library, Sacramento, California
 * St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, Missouri
 * Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
 * San Antonio Public Library, San Antonio, Texas
 * San Diego County Library, San Diego, California
 * San Diego Public Library, San Diego, California
 * San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, California
 * San José Public Library, San Jose, California
 * Santa Clara County Library District
 * Saxon State and University Library Dresden, Dresden, Germany
 * Scarabelli library, Caltanissetta, Italy
 * Schlesinger Library
 * Scientific and Technical Library, National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute", Ukraine
 * Seattle Central Library, Seattle Washington
 * Shanghai Library, Shanghai, China
 * Sichuan Library, Chengdu, China
 * Smyrna Public Library, Smyrna, Georgia
 * South San Francisco Public Library
 * Southfield Public Library, Southfield, Michigan
 * SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library, Sofia, Bulgaria
 * State Central Library, Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India
 * State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
 * State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
 * State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
 * State Library of Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
 * Stockholm Public Library, Stockholm, Sweden
 * Stretford Library, Trafford
 * Sun Yat-sen Library of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, China

T

 * Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) SDTM Library, Mumbai, India
 * Texas A&M University Libraries, College Station, Texas
 * Thomas S. Power Library, Offutt AFB, Nebraska
 * Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka, Kansas
 * Toronto Public Library, Toronto
 * Toronto Reference Library, Toronto
 * Troy Public Library, Troy, New York
 * Twinsburg Public Library
 * Tribhuvan University Central Library, Kathmandu, Nepal

U

 * U. Grant Miller Library, Washington & Jefferson College
 * University of Central Florida Libraries, Orlando, Florida
 * University of Coimbra General Library, Coimbra, Portugal
 * University of Florida Library System
 * University of Applied Sciences Augsburg Library
 * University of Houston Libraries
 * University of Queensland Library, Brisbane, Australia
 * University of South Florida Tampa Library, Tampa, Florida
 * University of Sydney Library, Sydney, Australia
 * University of Zambia Library

V

 * Valley Library, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
 * Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver
 * Vancouver Tool Library and Community Access Center (VTLCAC), Tool Library, Vancouver, Washington
 * Vatican Library in Vatican City
 * Vilnius University Library

W

 * W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst
 * Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv, Israel
 * Wellcome Library, London
 * West German Audio Book Library for the Blind, Münster, Germany
 * William F. Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
 * William T. Young Library, University of Kentucky
 * Windhoek Public Library in Windhoek, Namibia
 * Winnipeg Public Library, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
 * Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge

Y

 * Yale University Library, Yale University
 * YeungNam University Library, South Korea
 * Yiu Tung Public Library, Shau Kei Wan, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
 * Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library, Haifa, Israel

Z

 * Zillur Rahman Library, Aligarh, India