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Growth of the Library of Congress

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 10, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 2.

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Growth of the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is now third among the great libraries of the world, and at its present rate of increase will soon rank first. It is but little more than half as old as the British Museum Library, and six centuries behind the Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris. The Library of Congress now numbers 1,793,158 volumes; and the public, society, and school libraries of the country, 54,000,000 volumes,—an increase, the World tells us, of nearly 500 per cent in 30 years.