China library of the day

by Tyler Cowen on June 21, 2009 at 7:37 am in Books | Permalink

It is supposed to be the world's third largest. Here is the outside view. Here is one good article (with another photo).

7 comments

david June 21, 2009 at 8:09 am: As large as it is, that giant empty space is the center means that much of the area of devoid of books.
R. Pointer June 21, 2009 at 11:44 am: My home library is Robarts, here in Toronto. I can’t find a wiki on this library listed above, but 3rd biggest by what? Volumes? Size? Robarts is the 4th largest academic library with 10 million volumes, 5 million microfilms. It is also 14 stories tall. As big as this one in China is, I don’t think it is even close to that.
people are funny June 21, 2009 at 2:57 pm: The building on the picture is just part of the National Library of China, which is a big compound consisting of several large buildings. The wiki (Chinese) says the library is the largest in Asia, the fifth largest in the world, and currently has 25 million volumns, and the figure is increasing by 0.6-0.7 million a year.
R. Pointer June 21, 2009 at 3:55 pm: Well, having 15 million copies of the little red book just doesn’t seem right.
UV June 21, 2009 at 7:50 pm: i like it.
Ashish Kalmegh June 23, 2009 at 3:25 am: Oh my god !!
I don’t even visit my college’s 4 room library and this is the library of 4 floors
Pippin June 23, 2009 at 5:11 pm: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/FurnessLibraryInner.JPG

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