Largest library - The British Library, housed in 18 buildings in London, United Kingdom and a 60 acre site at Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, is one of the largest in the world. The Document Supply Centre in Boston Spa operates the largest interlending service in the world, handling almost 3 million requests annually from libraries all over the world. Its music section, the National Sound Archive, holds over 1 million discs and 50,000 hours of recorded tape and the Newspaper Library contains 70,000 different titles. The famous Reading Room, situated in the main Great Russell St complex in central London, was designed by sir Anthony Panizzi in 1854.
