There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
Andrew Carnegie
Public libraries, American Libraries, Hathi Trust, Qarawiyyin library, Hernando Colon's library
Biblioteca Pública Arús, The Open Archives Initiative
Library classification systems, What's OCLC?, OCLC holdings rank (2005)
Library of Congress Classification System, Catalog your books online, The Open Library, DOI resolver
Library Web, What is WorldCat?, Frederick G. Kilgour, Papermaking, Library of Utopia
IFLA, American library association (ALA), Melvil Dewey, origins of librarianship, Library, Inc.
The Digital Public Library of America, Europeana, USTC
The Research Library Group, Complete open access catalog
Map libraries, Open access at wikipedia, Open access news
Legal deposit libraries act of 2003 (UK), MARC standards
America's Great libraries
Library of Congress, History, Thomas Jefferson's library
New York Public Library, Harvard libraries, Yale Library
Huntington Library, Americas largest libraries
Important world libraries
British Library, London, manuscripts online, King's Library, Chetham's Library
Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris at wikipedia, Largest libraries
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, controversies, original library, at wikipedia
The Vatican Library (at wikipedia), The European Library at wikipedia
List of national libraries, Google library project settles with publishers