Can you name the universities in the United States that have the largest libraries?

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Universities with the Largest Libraries Quiz

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	Bienenstock:	Nov 7th, 2011 at 15:14 GMT		16 points
	Nice to see so many Big Ten Schools.

	mneh:	Nov 7th, 2011 at 15:25 GMT		11 points
	@pator Funnier story: I've heard that exact same story at a bunch of other universities. And apparently so has Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/college/halls/sinking.asp

	snwidget:	Nov 7th, 2011 at 15:26 GMT		1 point
	Great quiz - guessed on most of them (Ivies, big names, big schools, etc), and got them all. Sad to see my alma mater (Dartmouth) didn't crack, but considering how small the school is, I'm not surprised.

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	murphy59:	Nov 7th, 2011 at 16:33 GMT		15 points
	Did anyone else recognize the irony of this: "/20 universitys correct"?

	johnlk:	Nov 7th, 2011 at 16:48 GMT		1 point
	Is this counting all the campuses of the University of Illinois together?

wasting2muchtime:

Nov 7th, 2011 at 17:23 GMT

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@johnlk since ucla and cal are both on this list, I assume it is just counting Illinois U-C

	Pogues:	Nov 7th, 2011 at 18:09 GMT		1 point
	I'm not sure what made me try Kentucky. Everyone knows they don't have books in that state.

	spelengwisird21:	Nov 7th, 2011 at 19:18 GMT		3 points
	How did I manage to get Minnesota and Indiana but miss Yale and Columbia?

	TomHop:	Nov 7th, 2011 at 19:47 GMT		3 points
	Well my first guess was Oxford.. and then read the name of the quiz.

	JacketFan:	Nov 7th, 2011 at 20:00 GMT		4 points
	Many are "land grant" schools. Thank you, Morrill Act of 1862 (and our forebears).

	SOAR21:	Nov 7th, 2011 at 20:08 GMT		2 points
	Cal and UCLA are listed separately, as they should be, but it's worth noting that a UC student can access any of these books, they can be moved around. With that in mind, the UC library as a whole, with all the schools, is the most extensive library in the US. Yes, more than the Library of Congress.

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	eab21:	Nov 7th, 2011 at 21:12 GMT		3 points
	I felt so smart after I finished this.

	Bobman1:	Nov 7th, 2011 at 21:23 GMT		-1 points
	This was not terribly challenging (I don't mean to denigrate it, but the subject matter allows educated guessing to take you pretty far--top rated schools plus those with the biggest enrollments will get you most of the way there), ivies, near-ivies, and big state Us. The real measure would be books per student. No service academies? Prob not big enough and little public info available. My tiny undergrad alma mater not there, but my much bigger grad school is, though like DTNelson above, in two years not sure I ever checked out a volume. Some periodicals maybe, and used some hard-copy ref books.....

	frug:	Nov 7th, 2011 at 21:46 GMT		2 points
	@johnlk No it's Urbana-Champaign only. Actually, one the first things they mention on campus tours is that the school has the largest library of any public school in the country. Also, (random trivia) since University Laboratory High School students have the same access to the campus library as university students, Uni High technically has the largest library of any high school in the world!

	capelunc:	Nov 7th, 2011 at 21:55 GMT		0 points
	@Pogues. actually University of Kentucky has a massive library. I'm surprised it wasn't on this list, but I don't know if this quiz was based on size, printed material, or size + printed material. Look up Kentucky's library on google images, it's called the "William T. Young Library"

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	capelunc:	Nov 7th, 2011 at 22:01 GMT		0 points
	http://www.flickr.com/photos/universityofkentucky/6255063384/in/photostream "William T. Young Library is home to the largest book endowment in the nation, dissertations, federal records, and The Hub. When it was built, it was the only library in the country to house all of its volumes on mobile compact shelves, controlled by the push of a button."

	D_Mac:	Nov 7th, 2011 at 23:51 GMT		1 point
	I'd be interested to see this same quiz for universities of every country.

	Sanky:	Nov 8th, 2011 at 00:35 GMT		1 point
	It's so weird to not see the university's sports team name pop up along with it.

	MrMN:	Nov 8th, 2011 at 01:20 GMT		4 points
	Just a list of good, big schools. That must be why there aren't very many from the south on the list. A lot of them schools ain't into book learnin' much.

	nak21:	Nov 8th, 2011 at 02:57 GMT		-3 points
	@DTNelson -- That may be the dumbest thing I've heard today. Good to see that custodial engineering requires a degree and a "leading school" with a small library, that you failed to use, gave you a degree. :) Wow!!

	allcaps:	Nov 8th, 2011 at 03:13 GMT		2 points
	yeah, big ten represent

	Beckster3430:	Nov 8th, 2011 at 11:33 GMT		1 point
	SOAR21 said what I was going to... as a UCI anteater (yes, our mascot is an anteater), I've been glad to have such an extensive library system at my disposal.

	Stingbass:	Nov 8th, 2011 at 18:16 GMT		2 points
	@Pogues actually we have the second largest library in the country (Williams T. Young Library) in terms of building size here at UK. Quite nice. I was surprised to not see it on here.

	tommyloder:	Nov 8th, 2011 at 23:32 GMT		0 points
	@Pogues In addition to seconding what Stingbass said, we also have the largest endowment of any public university library in the United States. And we actually likely have more books in Kentucky than most other states, since the main east coast distribution centers of Amazon and many other companies are here.

	James McGwire:	Nov 10th, 2011 at 04:50 GMT		0 points
	@DTNelson Right On!!! books are stupid and only them loud mouth types read em', us truly smart folks are beyond reading

	Firemarsh:	Nov 15th, 2011 at 20:55 GMT		1 point
	SEC! SEC! SEC! oh wait...

	onforeigner:	Nov 24th, 2011 at 08:41 GMT		1 point
	Please accept UCB for University of California - Berkeley. UCLA works, might as well keep it consistent.

	Chadboy:	Nov 24th, 2011 at 15:54 GMT		-1 points
	well typed in LA,CAL LA, University of Cal LA. Still no right answer. Think about changing the various answers

	smith12488:	Jan 12th, 2012 at 02:38 GMT		0 points
	@ Pogues, that is very offensive.

	jiangying9:	Oct 14th, 2012 at 15:05 GMT		1 point
	It is nice that the schools are not all from one conference!!