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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Library museums, Research museums in the United States, University museums, Bodleian Library, British Library, British Red Cross, John Rylands Library, Library and Archives Canada, Cambridge University Library, Museum of Design Zurich, Wellcome Library, Lambeth Palace, Gus Fisher Gallery, Royal Veterinary College, Toronto Reference Library, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Ireland, Bible and Orient Museum, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Women's Library, Marsh's Library, Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library, Gourmet Museum and Library, Chester Beatty Library, Harvard University Herbaria, Gutenberg Museum, IFAN Museum of African Arts, Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum, Museum of Modern Literature, William Brown Library and Museum, University Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong, Grainger Museum, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Waseda University Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Bergen Museum, Elliott Avedon Museum and Archive of Games, Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum, Robert B. Ferguson Museum of Mineralogy, Koishikawa Annex, The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, Armitt Library, Ruskin Library, Vicente Fox Center of Studies, Library and Museum, Harvard Mineralogical Museum, Zoological Museum of the University of Athens, Museum of Anthropology, University of Athens, Zoological Museum of the Patras University. Excerpt: The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom, and one of the world's largest libraries in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages and in many formats, both print and digital: books, manuscripts, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, videos, play-scripts, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawi...