The leading library among the largest libraries in the world is the “Library of Congress.” It was founded in 1800; and located in Washington D.C, United States.

Ranked sixth among the world's largest libraries, this library boasts a collection of 40 million books. Its origins date back to 1368 in Paris, France, when Charles V founded a royal library at ...

Number of items: 162 million+. Located in Washington, D.C., the Library of Congress is the national library of the United States and the largest library in the world.

If you walk inside the main building of the world’s largest library, you won’t see many books. There are marble floors, stained-glass windows, elaborate tiled ceilings and gold-leaf doors. The ...

The world’s oldest known library, the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, in what is today Iraq, was created in the seventh century B.C.E. to store clay tablets used for recordkeeping. Its librarians ...