45

minutes that you can borrow a person
in a Swedish library to learn more about different lifestyles
as part of The Living Library project

90,000

volumes moved out of the University
of Texas at Austin library to clear
space for a 24-hour electronic
information commons

milliseconds between entries
for WorldCat holdings
999,999,999 and 1,000,000,000

300%

increase in the number of students
coming into the Penn State University library
when it opened its new information commons in 2001

1731

Year the first public library,
The Library Company of Philadelphia,
was founded in Philadelphia
by Benjamin Franklin

0

printed textbooks available
at the new Empire High School
in Vail, Arizona, USA

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