Answer: British Library is the largest library in the world! According to British Library's facts and figure, • We receive a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland • The collection includes well over 150 million items, in most known languages • 3 million new items are added every year • We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents • The Sound Archive keeps sound recordings from 19th-century cylinders to CD, DVD and MD recordings • We house 8 million stamps and other philatelic items • All this requires over 625 km of shelves, and grows by 12 km every year • If you see 5 items each day, it would take you over 80,000 years to see the whole of the collection • The world's earliest dated printed book, the Diamond Sutra, is sometimes on display in our exhibition galleries alongside many other treasures • We have on-site space for over 1,200 Readers • Over 16,000 people use the collect...