The most famous libraries of the world

1. Library of Congress (Eng. The Library of Congress) - The National Library of the United States, one of the largest libraries in the world. Located in Washington. Is the research library of the US Congress, serving government agencies, research institutes, researchers, private firms and industrial companies, schools.

2. Sansovino Library

3. Library Peabody (George Peabody Library), Baltimore, USA

4. Library of the Benedictine Monastery of Admont, Austria

5. Seattle Central Library (Seattle Central Library) is a 11-storey glass and steel, located in downtown Seattle, Washington.

6. Klosternoyburgskaya State Library (Stiftsbibliothek Klosterneuburg), Austria. Klosterneuburg Austrian city in the federal state of Lower Austria. Situated in the north-west of Vienna, directly adjacent to it. Population - 24,797 people. One of the attractions is the monastery library, which contains more than 30,000 volumes of old.

7. Herzog August Library (Herzog August Bibliothek) - a collection of books a highly Wolfenbüttel Duke August the Younger.

8. Library of Parliament (Library of Parliament), Ottawa, Canada - is the main repository of information in Canada. Library collection includes 600,000 copies, covering hundreds of years of history.

9. Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

10. Personal Library Jay Walker (Jay Walker's Private Library). In 1990, the family Walker made his house a private library, which occupies 330 m2. Walker Library mostly filled with books, atlases, artifacts and models related to space exploration.