List of The Largest Academic Libraries in North America
The 10 largest academic libraries in North America by number of volumes, as of 2008-2009:
- 1 Harvard University 16,557,002
- 2 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 12,780,067
- 3 Yale University 12,564,157
- 4 University of Toronto 11,345,102
- 5 University of California, Berkeley 11,026,554
- 6 Columbia University 10,449,223
- 7 University of Texas at Austin 9,853,414
- 8 University of Michigan 9,575,256
- 9 University of California, Los Angeles 9,045,818
- 10 University of Chicago 8,830,151
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