More than 151 million items, including more than 34.5 million cataloged books and other print materials in 470 languages; more than 66.6 million manuscripts; the largest rare book collection in North America; and the world's largest collection of legal materials, films, maps, sheet music and sound recordings.

The collection includes well over 150 million items, in most known languages. Three million new items are added every year. We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents

The German National Library is entrusted with the task of collecting, permanently archiving, bibliographically classifying and making available to the general public all German and German-language publications from 1913, foreign publications about Germany, translations of German works, and the works of German-speaking emigrants published abroad between 1933 and 1945.

For nearly three hundred years, Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, fulfilling its mission, collects, preserves and provides the scientific community in the use of a universal collection of documents in Russian and foreign languages, reflecting the research and studies in all branches of knowledge of all countries and peoples.