Can you name the largest libraries (public and academic) in the United States?

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U.S. Largest Libraries Quiz

by Wilk

Created Sep 26, 2009 in Miscellaneous
Featured Dec 2, 2010
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	kmzh:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 16:50 GMT	11 points
	Yeah, should definitely take Texas for UT-Austin. Especially since accepting "Austin" by itself doesn't really make sense anyway. Nobody calls UT just "Austin".

	maekd:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 17:53 GMT	3 points
	As an alum and current employee... can you please accept UNC, or at least UNC Chapel Hill? I don't know what you needed to type in to get it accepted, but no one calls UNC "North Carolina," maybe to avoid confusion with NC State.

	wanderbygrace:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 17:56 GMT	3 points
	Wooboy, I obviously need to hit the books some more, considering I only got 17 right. Ow. Very nice quiz, though - 5 stars!

	baconstud01:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 18:15 GMT	18 points
	Why does simply typing the state work for places such as UNC and Texas, but not for California? Cal-Berkeley is the flagship campus of the University of California system. You should either accept 'California' for that one or require the name of the University for other similar ones.

	torerodrizzle:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 18:39 GMT	0 points
	Ohio st. should also be accepted.

	JPO:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 18:52 GMT	12 points
	berkeley is a tough one to get. i put in cal, california, cal berkeley, then university of california at berkeley and got none.

	chikka2:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 19:49 GMT	2 points
	Learned something: I always thought Rocky Balboa ran up the steps to the Philadelphia Public Library. Nope. It was the Art Gallery. Great quiz!

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	trick39berry:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 21:31 GMT	-2 points
	this was kind of hard. i cant believe i missed yale... :(

	megarockman:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 22:07 GMT	-2 points
	Forgot Columbia, didn't even think about Queens.

	hockey15:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 22:25 GMT	7 points
	Ohio State??? I don't think any of those students know how to read... (Sitting in one of the University of Michigan Libraries as I type this)

Volumes Held	Library
8,500,000
8,393,910
8,141,781
8,059,335
7,488,196
7,409,221
7,366,782
6,941,254
6,877,699
6,609,444
6,526,824
6,285,446
6,219,060

	Brf249:	Dec 3rd, 2010 at 00:16 GMT	-4 points
	hahahaha ohio state

	masego104:	Dec 3rd, 2010 at 01:13 GMT	6 points
	Great to see the Big 10 representing!

	maekd:	Dec 3rd, 2010 at 04:30 GMT	3 points
	@pita, how about them? Pretty sure it's still UNC, unless you're just guessing states. It doesn't matter though, because I'm not saying "North Carolina" shouldn't be accepted, I'm saying that "UNC" should be.

	nick5:	Dec 3rd, 2010 at 12:37 GMT	1 point
	You should accept Illinois for University of Illinois and you should accept Minnesota for University of Minnesota. For some reason, it wouldn't take these when I typed them in... and you not accepting answers that are reasonable seems to be a theme here.

	Wilk:	Dec 3rd, 2010 at 13:26 GMT	6 points
	Sorry for all the ridiculous omissions. FWIW, this quiz was created back when user-created games were first introduced, and several Sporcle conventions were not yet standard (UNC, Ohio St., etc.). I would have updated it had I thought anyone still played it.

	hamstrung:	Dec 3rd, 2010 at 20:17 GMT	2 points
	I thank you, Wilk. It was fun, and I admire the chance you took at being corrected by the librarian.

	NY_MOB:	Dec 5th, 2010 at 04:12 GMT	1 point
	Grew up in Queens and didn't get "Queens Borough Public". D'oh!

	teh_DR:	Dec 7th, 2010 at 01:56 GMT	0 points
	Man, i'd love to go to a US University. Anyone know of any good Psych universities in the North-East? (is from Montreal)

	billybob5237:	Dec 7th, 2010 at 07:27 GMT	0 points
	I am surprised that the Chicago Public Library did not make the cut. Especially since Cincinnati and Detroit did...

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	baconstud01:	Dec 10th, 2010 at 19:19 GMT	1 point
	teh_DR: If you're looking for Northeast universities with strong psych programs, look at the Ivy's: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Penn all have strong psych programs. Maryland, UVA, Carnegie-Mellon, and Johns Hopkins are all top-50 programs as well.

	teh_DR:	Dec 13th, 2010 at 01:07 GMT	0 points
	^Cool, thx! Gonna have to skip on the idea of Ivy League schools... can't really say i got the background (grades) or money to get into those schools. ^_^

	atakdog:	Jan 21st, 2011 at 00:24 GMT	-3 points
	Amusing (but not surprising) that there are only two in the former confederate states.

	yellowcard:	May 30th, 2011 at 15:57 GMT	1 point
	@atakdog: Actually it has less to do with politics and more to do with two factors: the age of the city and the conference of the school. Public libraries were considered a huge part of cultural standing during the 1800s, so the biggest cities at that time were most likely to chase after books. Big Ten and Ivy League schools did it out of the "I have a bigger library than you" race, also a 19th century thing. Today the US culture is very sports-driven; it's the cities with the most (and best) major league teams that get bragging rights.

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	Yodas:	Sep 18th, 2011 at 07:35 GMT	-1 points
	Please Except Sturbridge Public Library. That;s the library I go to and it's always busy, I cant even get on a computer there.

	WCRoentgen:	Nov 7th, 2011 at 22:58 GMT	2 points
	Surprised the Free Library of Philadelphia didn't make the cut. Did a lot of high school research at the main branch which is enormous! I know the collection has over 6 million items. Oh, and @chikka2, that "gallery" that Rocky ran up is called the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

	unkpoker:	Apr 9th, 2012 at 15:28 GMT	1 point
	I knew there was a big public library in Ohio...why I tried Cleveland and then didn't try Cincy is beyond me...someone pass the coffee...

	NikeSkylark:	May 13th, 2012 at 21:46 GMT	1 point
	wow, i didn't expect boston to be #2. i used to go there all the time since i worked across the street. it's big but i didn't expect it to be THAT big.