| Name of the Library | Location |
| British Library, United Kingdom | London and Boston Spa |
| Library of Congress, United States | Washington D.C. |
| Library and Archives, Canada | Ottawa |
| Shanghai Library, China | Shanghai |
| Russian State Library, Russia | Moscow |
| Royal Danish Library, Denmark | Copenhagen and Aarhus |
| National Diet Library, Japan | Tokyo and Kyoto |
| Bibliotheque Nationale de France | Paris |
| National Library of China | Beijing |
| National Library of Russia | Saint Petersburg |
| German National Library, Germany | Leipzig and Frankfurt |
| Biblioteca Nacional de España, Spain | Madrid |
| Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia | Saint Petersburg |
| Berlin State Library, Germany | Berlin |
| Boston Public Library, United States | Boston, Massachusetts |
| New York State Library, United States | Albany, New York |
| Harvard Library, United States | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| National Library of Sweden | Stockholm |
| Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine | Kiev |
| Yale Library, United States | New Haven, Connecticut |
| National Library of Iran | Tehran |
List of India’s Largest Libraries:
| Name of the Library | Location | Establishment Year |
| The National Library of India | Kolkata | 1836 |
| Delhi Public Library | New Delhi | 1951 |
| Saraswathi Mahal Library or Tanjore Maharaja Serfoji’s Sarasvati Mahal Library | Tamil Nadu | 1918 |
| Anna Centenary Library | Chennai | 2010 |
| Krishnadas Shama Central Library | Goa | 1832 |
| Allahabad Public Library | Allahabad | 1864 |
| Smt. Hansa Mehta Library | Baroda | 1950 |
| Connemara Public Library | Chennai | 1896 |
| State Central Library | Thiruvananthapuram | 1829 |
| State Central Library | Hyderabad | 1829 |
