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Library and Archives Canada Canada: Ottawa, Halifax, Winnipeg, Vancouver 27 million Largely a free reference library CAD165 million 853 Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences Russia: Saint Petersburg: 26.5 million [28] Berlin State Library Germany: Berlin: 23.4 million [29] 1.4 million [29] Boston Public Library
The mission of the library is to collect and store national and foreign science and technical literature, then disseminate information and bibliographical services for commercial, organisations and other institutions of the Russian Federation, development and application of up-to-date automated information technologies.
Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library website founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 4 ] It provides free access to collections of digitized materials including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials. The Archive also advocates for a free and open Internet.
Facts and Figures. Hunter Library is an accredited institution which serves a student body of over 10,000 students from all over the United States and from Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. The library collection contains more than 620,000 volumes in print, nearly 18,000 media items, and over 1.5 million items on microform. It provides ...
Project Gutenberg ( PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks ." [ 2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [ 3] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in ...
The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1987, besides a tea kettle, TIPA, Dharamsala, India. In 1894, when it claimed more than a half-million "habitual users," The World Almanac changed its name to The World Almanac and Encyclopedia. This was the title it kept until 1923, when it became The World Almanac and Book of Facts, the name it bears today.
In the aftermath of the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, Londoner A.H. Burgess, with the aid of Thomas Hughes, drew up what would be called the "English Book Donation", which proposed that England should provide a free library to the burnt-out city. The Chicago Public Library was created directly from the ashes of the great Chicago Fire.
Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books. It began as a mirror of Library Genesis , but has expanded dramatically.