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The first national library to establish in the Americas became the National Library of Colombia having been founded on 9 January 1777, as the Real Biblioteca by Manuel Antonio Flórez, the Viceroy of New Granada. [21] In the newly formed American republic, James Madison first proposed instituting a congressional library in 1783. [22]
A "♦" indicates a national library of a province or state, or constituent country or dependent state [neutrality is disputed]. It is listed under the sovereign state which governs that entity. Sovereign states are listed even when they have no national library or when the existence and name of a national library could not yet be ascertained.
The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library. [5]Located in Bethesda, Maryland, the NLM is an institute within the National Institutes of Health.
United States National Library of Medicine (17 P) Pages in category "National libraries in the United States" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 ...
The Bibliothèque nationale de France (French: [biblijɔtɛk nɑsjɔnal də fʁɑ̃s]; 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites, Richelieu and François-Mitterrand. It is the national repository of all that is published in France.
Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine Ukraine: Kyiv: 15.5 million [40] 500,000 [40] 50.3 million ₴ [41] 900 [40] Yale Library United States: New Haven, Connecticut, one location for students, staff and no free borrowing access to the public 15.2 million [42] National Library of Iran Iran: Tehran
On May 23, 1962, the 100th anniversary of the library's establishment, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman officially designated the library as the National Agricultural Library, making it the third national library in the United States. In 1964, funds were appropriated by Congress to begin planning for a new library facility in Beltsville ...
The National Library was founded on 29 August 1919, one year after independence, as the State Library (Valsts Bibliotēka). [1] Its first chief librarian and bibliographer was Jānis Misiņš (1862–1944), who made his immense private collection the basis of the new library. [2] Within a year, until 1920, the stocks had grown to 250,000 ...