2. The Library of Congress is the
research library of the United States
Congress, the de facto national library
of the United States of America, and
the oldest federal cultural institution in
the United States. Located in four
buildings in Washington, D.C., as
well as the Packard Campus in
Culpeper, Virginia, it is the second
largest library in the world by shelf
space and number of books, the
largest being The British Library.
The head of the Library is the
Librarian of Congress, currently
James H. Billington.
3. The National Library of Belarus
founded on 15 September 1922, is
a copyright library of the
Republic of Belarus. It houses the
largest collection of Belarusian
printed materials and the third
largest collection of books in
Russian behind the Russian State
Library (Moscow) and the
Russian National Library (St
Petersburg).
4. The library national de
France is the National
Library of France, located
in Paris. It is intended to be
the repository of all that is
published in France. The
current president of the
library is Bruno Racine.
