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 ...

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 ...

The British Library is the second largest in the world when based on the number of books, only beaten by the Library of Congress in the UK. 6 The British Library is getting a huge £1.1billion ...