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Bodleian Library, United Kingdom
The Bodelian library in the University of Oxford- Britain, generally works as a reference library. This picture shows the entrance with the "coats-of-arms" of several colleges marked on it. <a href='http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley' target="_blank" >Bodleian Library</a> -
Armagh Library, Northern Ireland
Situated in Northern Ireland, this library consists of some of the rare books like Sir Walter Raleigh's 'History of the World', 1614 and Fynes Moryson's Travels, 1617. <a href='http://armaghpubliclibrary.arm.ac.uk/index.php' target="_blank">Armagh Library</a> -
Library of Admont Abbey, Austria
The Library of Admont Abbey 70,000 volumes of the monastery's entire holdings of c. 200,000 volumes and has over 1400 manuscrips. <a href='http://stiftadmont.at/english/museum/bibliothek/stiftsbibliothek.php' target="_blank">Admont Library</a> -
Library of Congress, U.S.
The Library of Congress, which is the the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States, has got 22,194,656 cataloged books with an estimated budget of $613,496,414. <a href='http://www.loc.gov/index.html' target="_blank">Library of Congress</a> -
Queen's Library, New York City
Named No. 1 Library system in the United States by circulation, it loaned 21 million items in the 2007 fiscal year. <a href='http://www.queenslibrary.org/' target="_blank">Queen's Library</a>
