| America's poet laureate is officially called a consultant in poetry to this library |
The Library of Congress |
200 |
December 19, 2013 |
| A small library named for this man at Cambridge's Magdalene College contains his 17th century diary |
Samuel Pepys |
400 |
December 19, 2013 |
| This university's Hesburgh Library is famous for its 134-foot-high "Touchdown Jesus" mural |
Notre Dame |
600 |
December 19, 2013 |
| Milan's Ambrosiana Library has the Codex Atlanticus, a collection of manuscripts & drawings by this Renaissance man |
da Vinci |
800 |
December 19, 2013 |
| The National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, MD began with the collection Dr. Joseph Lovell, this official |
Surgeon General |
|
December 19, 2013 |
| Indiana University's Lilly Library contains many rare books including his 1450s New Testament |
Gutenberg |
200 |
December 5, 2005 |
| This railroad known as the AT&SF once had passenger libraries & reading rooms on its trains |
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe |
400 |
December 5, 2005 |
| The website for this country's Bibliotheque Royale Albert I can be read in French & Dutch |
Belgium |
800 |
December 5, 2005 |
| For aural thrills go to the Vincent Voice Library at Michigan State & hear a recording of this 23rd U.S. president |
Benjamin Harrison |
1000 |
December 5, 2005 |
| In 1598 Thomas Bodley began to rebuild the library at this university; it reopened in 1602 |
Oxford |
|
December 5, 2005 |
| In Palo Alto, the USA's 1st free-standing public children's library has a "secret" this, named for the Burnett tale |
a garden |
200 |
June 21, 2005 |
| Galleries at his Iowa Pres. Library & Museum include "The Humanitarian Years" & "From Hero to Scapegoat" |
Herbert Hoover |
400 |
June 21, 2005 |
| The United Nations' library is named for this Secretary-General who was killed in a 1961 plane crash |
Dag Hammarskjold |
600 |
June 21, 2005 |
| In 1887 Melvil Dewey founded the USA's first library school at this NYC university |
Columbia |
800 |
June 21, 2005 |
| In 1451 Nicholas V founded this library "for the common convenience of the learned" |
the Vatican library |
1000 |
June 21, 2005 |
| Samuel Pepys' famous diary is housed at the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College at this university |
Cambridge |
200 |
April 26, 2005 |
| The community of Darby in this state claims the USA's oldest free library, founded in 1743 |
Pennsylvania |
400 |
April 26, 2005 |
| In the late 1700s this empress founded the M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library in St. Petersburg |
Catherine the Great |
600 |
April 26, 2005 |
| Indiana University's Lilly Library hath a first edition of this, printed at London in 1611 |
the King James Bible |
800 |
April 26, 2005 |
| The Ralph J. Bunche Int'l Affairs Center is part of this Washington, D.C. university's library |
Howard |
|
April 26, 2005 |
| A unique mobile library in Kenya is transported from place to place by these "ships of the desert" |
camels |
200 |
April 26, 2004 |
| Most of the books in the ancient library at Alexandria in Egypt were in this language |
Greek |
400 |
April 26, 2004 |
| The Morris, this type of library at the University of Virginia, has first editions of Coke & Blackstone |
law library |
800 |
April 26, 2004 |
| Amazonas state in this country has a floating library that brings books to children along the Orinoco River & its tributaries |
Venezuela |
1000 |
April 26, 2004 |
| The Laurentian Library in Florence, Italy was founded in the 15th century by members of this family |
the Medicis |
|
April 26, 2004 |
| On May 30, 1998 a library devoted to this Confederate President opened at Beauvoir, his Mississippi home |
Jefferson Davis |
200 |
November 12, 2003 |
| The public library in Salinas, Calif. is named for this Nobel Prize-winning author born in Salinas in 1902 |
Steinbeck |
400 |
November 12, 2003 |
| The Family History Library at 35 N. West Temple St. in this state capital has archival info on more than 3 billion names |
Salt Lake City, Utah |
800 |
November 12, 2003 |
| Andrew himself dedicated this city's Carnegie Library in 1895 |
Pittsburgh |
1000 |
November 12, 2003 |
| The James Madison, Thomas Jefferson & John Adams buildings provide about 65 acres of floor space for this library |
the Library of Congress |
|
November 12, 2003 |
| The Bancroft Library in Berkeley has issued a new edition of his "Huckleberry Finn" with all 174 orig. illustrations |
Mark Twain |
200 |
June 27, 2003 |
| In the 1520s Pope Clement VII commissioned him to build the Laurentian Library in Florence |
Michelangelo |
400 |
June 27, 2003 |
| This inventor's historical site library includes his Oscar for his work in motion picture technology |
Thomas Edison |
800 |
June 27, 2003 |
| This Malaysian capital's Rubber Research Institute Library has a comprehensive collection on rubber growing |
Kuala Lumpur |
1000 |
June 27, 2003 |
| In 1836 the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland began as this army official's library |
Surgeon General of the United States |
|
June 27, 2003 |
| This city's Harold Washington Library Center is the USA's largest municipal library building |
Chicago |
100 |
March 21, 2001 |
| The Chapin Library of Rare Books at Williams College in this state's Berkshire Hills has a 1787 copy of the Constitution |
Massachusetts |
200 |
March 21, 2001 |
| 2 marble lions named Patience & Fortitude guard the entrance to its central research building |
New York Public Library |
400 |
March 21, 2001 |
| The library at Cambridge's Magdalene College is named for this diarist who bequeathed it his books & diary |
Samuel Pepys |
500 |
March 21, 2001 |
| Under Ptolemy I, Zenodotus of Ephesus became its first librarian |
Library at Alexandria |
|
March 21, 2001 |
| It's the central library of the Roman Catholic Church |
The Vatican Library |
100 |
March 16, 1999 |
| Developer of the decimal classification system, he directed the New York State Library, 1889-1906 |
Melvil Dewey |
200 |
March 16, 1999 |
| Only 2 presidential libraries are not administered by the National Archives: Hayes' in Ohio & his in Yorba Linda, CA. |
Richard Nixon |
300 |
March 16, 1999 |
| The life & career of this female senator from Maine is on display at a library in Skowhegan |
Margaret Chase Smith |
400 |
March 16, 1999 |
| The Lilly Library at Indiana University has one of this man's 1,453 printings of the New Testament |
Johannes Gutenberg |
500 |
March 16, 1999 |
| A Spokane library named for this "White Christmas" singer has many of the crooner's records & memorabilia |
Bing Crosby |
100 |
October 22, 1997 |
| The Greater Amman Public Library is one of the major libraries in this Middle Eastern country |
Jordan |
200 |
October 22, 1997 |
| The Theodore M. Hesburgh Library is located at this university |
Notre Dame |
300 |
October 22, 1997 |
| Founded in 1701, this university's library is Connecticut's oldest |
Yale |
400 |
October 22, 1997 |
| This Waco school's Armstrong Browning Library has items relating to poets Robert & Elizabeth |
Baylor |
500 |
October 22, 1997 |
| Marsh's Library in this country was founded c. 1702 by the Archbishop of Dublin |
Ireland |
100 |
June 21, 1996 |
| Architect Gordon Bunshaft designed this presidential library in Austin, Texas |
the LBJ library |
200 |
June 21, 1996 |
| Sterling Memorial Library in New Haven, Connecticut houses the archives of this university |
Yale |
300 |
June 21, 1996 |
| In 1602 this university's library reopened after restoration work by Sir Thomas Bodley |
Oxford University |
500 |
June 21, 1996 |
| Salinas, California, has a public library named for this novelist |
Steinbeck |
|
June 21, 1996 |
| The Lincoln Center Library is a branch of this city's library |
New York City |
100 |
March 28, 1996 |
| In 1854 this New England capital opened the first major free public library in the U.S. |
Boston |
200 |
March 28, 1996 |
| The library of the university of this largest Scottish city has about 500 printed items from the 15th C. |
Glasgow |
300 |
March 28, 1996 |
| Woodruff Library at Atlanta's Emory University houses papers of this Uncle Remus creator |
Joel Chandler Harris |
400 |
March 28, 1996 |
| Herbert Putnam served as head of this U.S. library for 40 years, 1899-1939 |
Library of Congress |
500 |
March 28, 1996 |
| In 1991 the Huntington Library allowed public access to these 2,000-year-old scrolls |
the Dead Sea Scrolls |
100 |
February 22, 1996 |
| The LBJ Library & Museum in this state capital contains a 7/8 scale replica of the Oval Office |
Austin |
200 |
February 22, 1996 |
| The Laurentian Library has a manuscript dating to the 5th century by this "Aeneid" poet |
Virgil |
300 |
February 22, 1996 |
| The Russian State Library was formerly named for this Communist leader |
Lenin |
400 |
February 22, 1996 |
| This D.C.-based Shakespeare library has 79 copies of the First Folio |
the Folger Library |
500 |
February 22, 1996 |
| The Black Hills State University Library in this state has porcelain representations |
South Dakota |
100 |
May 26, 1995 |
| The John Foster Dulles Library of Diplomatic History is located on the campus of this New Jersey school |
Princeton |
200 |
May 26, 1995 |
| In 1711 Philip V founded this country's national library |
Spain |
400 |
May 26, 1995 |
| The Theodore M. Hesburgh Library at this college has a 12-story granite mural on its outer wall |
Notre Dame |
500 |
May 26, 1995 |
| This public library was founded in 1895 by consolidating the Astor & Lenox Libraries & the Tilden Trust |
the New York Public Library |
|
May 26, 1995 |
| This state's largest public collection of books is in the Fort Wayne library system |
Indiana |
100 |
September 8, 1993 |
| This country's Princess Grace Irish Lib. contains books about Ireland that she collected in the 1960s |
Monaco |
200 |
September 8, 1993 |
| This Illinois city's Newberry Library is world famous for its rare book & Indian culture collections |
Chicago |
300 |
September 8, 1993 |
| George Washington's collection of books is housed at the Athenaeum Lib. in this New England capital |
Boston |
400 |
September 8, 1993 |
| The first free library in the 13 colonies opened in 1698 in this South Carolina port |
Charleston |
500 |
September 8, 1993 |
| This state maintains a free library for the public & the legislature in the capital of Augusta |
Maine |
100 |
February 10, 1993 |
| This school in New Haven, Conn. is home to the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Yale |
200 |
February 10, 1993 |
| This city's Enoch Pratt Free Library has Maryland's largest collection of books |
Baltimore |
300 |
February 10, 1993 |
| This city is the site of the Mayo Medical Library |
Rochester, Minnesota |
400 |
February 10, 1993 |
| Outstanding collections of William Faulkner & Stark Young can be found at the library of this university |
University of Mississippi |
|
February 10, 1993 |
| The Department of Libraries in Montpelier has this state's best collection of early newspapers |
Vermont |
100 |
July 14, 1992 |
| This city's public library system is Wisconsin's largest with more than 1.5 million books |
Milwaukee |
200 |
July 14, 1992 |
| This organization's Dag Hammarskjold Library specializes in books dealing with international affairs |
the United Nations |
300 |
July 14, 1992 |
| Rare books & manuscripts are housed in the Sistine Room of this 1600-year-old library |
the Vatican library |
100 |
October 14, 1991 |
| In 1731 this printer became a co-founder of the Library Company of Philadelphia |
Ben Franklin |
200 |
October 14, 1991 |
| A large collection of medical works can be found in Rochester, Minnesota, at this clinic |
the Mayo Clinic |
300 |
October 14, 1991 |
| Nevada's largest book collection is at the University of Nevada's oldest campus, in this city |
Reno |
400 |
October 14, 1991 |
| This Midwest state's Old Cathedral Library in Vincennes is noted for its old manuscripts |
Indiana |
500 |
October 14, 1991 |
| This library's administrator is appointed by the President with the approval of the Senate |
Library of Congress |
100 |
April 15, 1991 |
| The Astor & Lenox Libraries formed the basis for this city's public library in 1895 |
New York Public Library |
200 |
April 15, 1991 |
| The Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library at this N.J. school is the state's largest research library |
Princeton |
300 |
April 15, 1991 |
| This state's oldest library is the Wilmington Institute Free Library, founded in 1788 |
Delaware |
400 |
April 15, 1991 |
| His presidential library was dedicated on July 19, 1990 in Yorba Linda, California |
Nixon |
500 |
April 15, 1991 |
| These vehicles used in library outreach programs can be trailers, trucks & even boats in Louisiana bayous |
bookmobiles |
100 |
September 12, 1990 |
| In this system a book on the history of art in the U.S. would be found under 709.73 |
the Dewey Decimal System |
200 |
September 12, 1990 |
| Sam Rayburn Library in Bonham, in this state, features a replica of his office in the U.S. Capitol |
Texas |
300 |
September 12, 1990 |
| The libraries of ancient Assyria contained thousands of tablets made of this |
clay |
400 |
September 12, 1990 |
| One of the world's greatest collections of Celtica is in this country's National Library in Aberystwyth |
Wales |
500 |
September 12, 1990 |
| The T. Jefferson Building, John Adams Building & James Madison Memorial Bldg. house this |
Library of Congress |
100 |
March 19, 1990 |
| His presidential library was opened in Hyde Park, N.Y. while he was still in office |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
200 |
March 19, 1990 |
| The largest library in the Soviet Union is named for this revolutionary |
Lenin |
300 |
March 19, 1990 |
| The library at this Waco, Texas school houses the largest collection of works about Robert Browning |
Baylor |
500 |
March 19, 1990 |
| In 1889 a Braddock, PA library became the first in the U.S. constructed by this businessman |
Andrew Carnegie |
|
March 19, 1990 |
| According to ancient rumor, Mark Antony donated 200,000 books to this city's library |
Alexandria |
100 |
November 10, 1989 |
| When the Library of Congress bought this president's private library, it doubled its collection |
Thomas Jefferson |
200 |
November 10, 1989 |
| In 1757 King George II gave his royal library to this London museum's library |
The British Museum |
300 |
November 10, 1989 |
| Pope Clement VII commissioned him to design the Medicean-Laurentian Library in 1523 |
Michelangelo |
500 |
November 10, 1989 |
| This D.C. Shakespeare library is named for the oil executive who founded it |
Folger Library |
|
November 10, 1989 |
| The Soviet Union's largest library is named after this man, so he has tomes & a tomb in Moscow |
Lenin |
100 |
May 12, 1989 |
| Dedicated in 1981, this presidential library is located at the University Michigan |
the Gerald Ford Library |
200 |
May 12, 1989 |
| The James Madison Memorial Building is the largest of the 3 Capitol Hill buildings housing this library |
the Library of Congress |
300 |
May 12, 1989 |
| With over 80 branches & more than 11 million volumes, it's the largest public library system in the U.S. |
the New York Public Library |
400 |
May 12, 1989 |
| In 1731 the 1st library to circulate books in what's now the U.S. was founded in this city |
Philadelphia |
|
May 12, 1989 |
| In 1939 his Hyde Park, N.Y. presidential library became 1st to be separate from Library of Congress |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
100 |
January 16, 1987 |
| This service began in the U.S. using a horse-drawn wagon |
bookmobiles |
200 |
January 16, 1987 |
| This university library w/more than 10 million books has just 1 of the 100s donated by its namesake in 1638 |
Harvard |
300 |
January 16, 1987 |
| You can get film strips from this branch of the L.A. Library or go next door & watch girls strip |
Hollywood |
400 |
January 16, 1987 |
| Under the Dewey Decimal System all books in this general class are in the 800s |
literature |
500 |
January 16, 1987 |