Big US Libraries I've Visited

• 01 Library of Congress
• 02 Boston Public Library

• 08 University of California Berkeley

• 09 University of Colorado
• 10 University of Texas Austin
• 12 University of Chicago
• 13 University of California Los Angeles

• 15 Stanford

• 19 University of Washington

• 20 University of Minnesota
• 22 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• 30 University of Arizona
• 56 Brown University
• 58 University of California Davis
• 62 King County Public Library

• 66 University of Maryland

• 71 Johns Hopkins University

• 77 University of Hawaii Manoa

• 98 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bold libraries are > 20 hours of use, multiple days.

Many large libraries, like Princeton, Harvard, New York Public Library, are not visitor-friendly.

Hundreds of smaller libraries, and some foreign. The Toronto Reference Library on Yonge Street is a special favorite.