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London：

British Library

URL：https://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do

The British Library(BL) is the national library of the United Kingdom and gives access to the world’s most comprehensive research collection. It provides information services to academic, business, research and scientific communities.

Its collection of over 170 million items includes artefacts from every age of written civilisation. The BL keeps the nation’s archive of printed and digital publications, adding around three million new items to our collection every year.

It has many books, but we have so much more. Its London and Yorkshire sites have everything from newspapers to sound recordings, patents, prints and drawings, maps and manuscripts.

Physical Collections：The collection of the British Library contains around 8,000 books related to the Expo, covering English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Romanian, and other languages.

Digital Collections：The collection of the British Library contains about 800 digital resources related to the Expo, covering English, French, German, and other languages. It is available for online reading.

Liverpoo：

Please contact us by emailing to Library@expo.cn, if you know any local institutions have a huge amount of Expo-themed collection. WE Library will update the information to the list. Thank you very much.

Paris ：

BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE

The Bibliothèque nationale de France (French: [biblijɔtɛk nɑsjɔnal də fʁɑ̃s], "National Library of France"; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris. It is the national repository of all that is published in France and also holds extensive historical collections.

Physical Collections：The National Library of France’s collection contains about 8000 hard copies related to the Expo, covering English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and other languages. It is available for online reading.

URL：https://catalogue.bnf.fr/index.do

Digital Collections：Gallica is the digital library for online users of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and its partners. It was established in October 1997. Today it has more than 6 million digitized materials of various types: books, magazines, newspapers, photographs, cartoons, drawings, prints, posters, maps, manuscripts, antique coins, scores, theater costumes and sets, audio and video materials. All library materials are freely available.

Gallica has more than 100,000 digital resources related to the previous Expos held in France from 1855-1937, including books, newspapers, magazines, pictures, maps, manuscripts, sheet music and other forms, covering English, French, German，and other languages. There are 2 access methods, paid and unpaid.

Free access: The visitors can read and download online self-built resources for free through the Gallica homepage.

Paid access: this method is mainly the resources of outsourcing data, and visitors pay a fee to download and print resources.

URL：https://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/fr/content/accueil-fr?mode=desktop

Lyon：

Lyon Public Library

URL：https://www.bm-lyon.fr/

Introduction: Bibliothèquemunicipalede Lyon is the Library of Lyon, France. In addition to providing the standard services, the library also has multiple special collections, especially in photography, textiles, music, contemporary art and literature.

Physical Collections：Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon contains around 2,000 books and text resources related to the Expo, covering English, French, German, and other languages.

Lille：

Bibliothèque municipale de Lille

URL：http://www.bm-lille.fr/

Introduction: Library Du Vieux Lille is a public library, which holds nearly 100,000 documents. It contains a rich and diverse collection of manuscripts, prints, newspapers, photos, engravings, sheet music, Chinese collections, and Japanese collections. The date range of the resources start from the 12th century to the 21st century, which is mainly related to the history of Lille or the region.

Physical Collections: The library contains about 1000 hard copies of multiple Expos, the content is in English, French, German, and other languages.

Vienna：

Austrian National Library

URL：https://www.onb.ac.at/

As the central academic library of the Republic of Austria, the Austrian National Library looks back to a history rich in tradition going as far as the 14th century. It is a living bridge between the rich heritage of the past and the future-oriented demands of a modern information society.

As a service-oriented information centre, the Austrian National Library offers its users access and professional advice on its own holdings (over 10.9 million objects) and also on international data pools. It also accepts commissions on scientific research, and operates documentation centres and service facilities, for example on literature specifically devoted to women’s studies. Since the beginning of the digital age, a steadily increasing number of services have been handled online via the website of the Austrian National Library.

As a result of the Austrian Media Act, the Austrian National Library is the only library in the country to receive copies of all publications appearing in Austria, including those from offline media and dissertations approved by Austrian universities, as per the Universities Act. At the same time, these obligatory items serve as the basis for publication of the Austrian Bibliography.

Physical Collections：The Austrian National Library contains about 1,000 hard copies related to multiple Expos, the content is in English, French, German, Italian, and other languages.

Digital Collections: The Austrian National Library contains about 650 digital books related to multiple Expos, the content is available in English, French, German, Italian, and other languages.

WIEN MUSEUM

URL：https://www.wienmuseum.at/

Wien Museum is a general-purpose metropolitan museum with a wide range of collections and exhibitions – from the history of the city to art, fashion and modern culture, from the earliest settlements to the present day. Because of its general approach and interdisciplinary potential, it occupies a unique position among Vienna’s museums. It has sites throughout the city. Taking the city of Vienna as a model, it explores the general theme of social, cultural and urban change in comparison with other cities.

The Wien Museum contains a considerable amount of resources related to Weltaustellung 1873 in Wien, including drawings, photography, bibliography, designs, and medals, etc. There are about 1500 collections that have been digitized, which can be browsed online.

Philadelphia：

Free Library of Philadelphia

URL：http://www.freelibrary.org/

The Free Library of Philadelphia is the public library system that serves the entire County of Philadelphia.It is the 13th-largest public library system in the United States.The Free Library of Philadelphia is a non-Mayoral agency of the City of Philadelphia governed by an independent Board of Trustees as per the Charter of the City of Philadelphia.

Physical Collections: The Free Library of Philadelphia has about 1,700 books related to previous Expos, covering English, French, German, Chinese, and other languages.

Digital Collections: The Free Library of Philadelphia has approximately 3,300 digital resources related to multiple Expos, including e-books, newspaper, magazine, pictures and other formats, covering English, French, German, and Italian.

Chicago:

Chicago Public Library

Since first opening our doors in 1873, Chicago Public Library's served all Chicagoans with free and open places to gather, learn, connect, read and be transformed.

Its 81 locations provide the innovative library services, technologies and tools Chicagoans need to reach their goals and to establish Chicago as a competitive force in the global marketplace.

Physical Collections: The Chicago Public Library has nearly 2,000 books related to the previous Expos in its system, covering English, French, German, and other languages.

Chicago History Museum:

Founded in 1856 and incorporated as a nonprofit organization under the laws of the state of Illinois in 1857, the Chicago Historical Society (CHS) is the city’s oldest cultural institution and home to millions of historical objects, images, and documents. Nationally recognized for its holdings, CHS is devoted to collecting, interpreting, and presenting the rich multicultural history of Chicago, as well as selected areas of American history. In 2006, following an extensive building renovation and rebranding initiative, CHS created a new public identity for itself as the Chicago History Museum (CHM), which operates as the building and institutional public presence under the auspices and legal oversight of CHS.

World’s Columbian Exposition and A Century of Progress, International Exposition, 1933-34 are also included in the collection. The museum welcomes scholars, students, filmmakers, journalists and the general public to come to visit and use the collection, including prints, photographs, archival manuscripts, architectural drawings and records, books, and other published materials.

Ball State University Libraries:

Ball State University (Ball State or BSU) is a public research university in Muncie, Indiana.It has over 1 million volumes of books,serials,and periodicals，over 350000 e-books and 150000 e-journals, access to nearly 300 research databases.

In the Ball State University Libraries, there are circa 4,000 resources related to the Expo. As of 2020, the library has digitized 350,000 books and 15,000 magazines, including approximately 1,000 Expo related resources.

St. Louis:：

St. Louis Public Library - Central Library

If you know any local institutions, that have a large amount of Expo-themed resources collected, please email us at library@expo.cn. The WE Library will update the information on the list. Thank you very much.

San Francisco:

San Francisco Public Library

The San Francisco Public Library is the public library system of the city of San Francisco. The Main Library is located at Civic Center, at 100 Larkin Street.In 1986, a task force was set up to complete the design of the Civic Center, including the use of Marshall Square, next to the main library at the time, for a new main library.The building was completed in 1995 and opened a year later on April 18, 1996.

Physical Collections: The San Francisco Public Library has approximately 900 books related to previous Expos; the content is available in English, French, German, Chinese, and other languages.

Digital Collections: The San Francisco Public Library has over 100 e-books related to multiple Expos, the content is available in English, Chinese, and other languages.

CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

The California Historical Society (CHS) is the official historical society of California. It was officially designated as the Californian state historical society in 1979.Its headquarters are in San Francisco, though it hosts exhibits and collections across California.

The California Historical Society Collection represents the environmental, economic, social, political, and cultural heritage of the state of California, including materials from outside California that contribute to a greater understanding of the state and its people.The collection includes 50,000 volumes of books and pamphlets; 4,000 manuscript collections; 500,000 photographs; printed ephemera, periodicals, posters, broadsides, maps, and newspapers; the Kemble Collection on Western Printing and Publishing; 5,000 works of art, including paintings, drawings, and lithographs; and numerous artifacts and costumes

Physical Collections: The California Historical Society Collection has around 200 pieces of resources related to multiple Expos, including hard copies, music sheets, notes, and other formats of media, the resources are mainly in English.

New York:

New York Public Library

The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations.It serves more than 16 million patrons a year, and millions more online, the Library holds more than 56 million items, from books, e-books, and DVDs to renowned research collections used by scholars from around the world. Housed in our research centers, NYPL’s historical collections hold such treasures as a draft of the Declaration of Independence written in Thomas Jefferson's hand, one of the few surviving copies of the Gutenberg Bible, and original works, manuscripts, letters, and more by luminaries in literature and art, including William Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Charles Dickens, Maya Angelou, John Coltrane, Augusta Savage, and more.

Physical Collections: The New York Public Library has approximately 700 hard copies related to Expo; the content is available in English, French, and other languages.

Digital Collections: The NYPL has around 1,500 pieces of digital resources related to multiple Expos, including e-books, dissertations, reports, notes, and other formats. The content is available in English, French, and other languages. A limited amount of the resources are accessible online.

Seattle：

Seattle Central Library

The Seattle Central Library is the flagship library of the Seattle Public Library system. The 362,987 square feet (33,722.6 m2) public library has the capacity to hold about one and a half million books and other materials. It offers underground public parking for 143 vehicles and over 400 computers accessible to the public.

Physical Collections: The Seattle Central Library contains approximately 900 books and text resources related to the multiple Expos; the content is available in English, French, and other languages.

Digital Collections: The Seattle Central Library has about 60 e-books related to multiple Expos.

Seattle Municipal Archives

The Seattle Municipal Archives are the official archive of the city of Seattle. The organization is housed in Seattle City Hall.The organization was formally established in 1985. The city of Seattle stores its city records here.The Seattle Municipal Archive accepted a US$100,000 from the National Archives and Records Administration to process records.

Physical Collections: The Seattle Municipal Archives preserves about 1,000 records of multiple Expos, including notes, papers, reports, and other forms.

Lemieux Library

Seattle University (SU) is a private Jesuit university in Seattle, Washington.SU is the largest independent university in the Northwestern United States, with over 7,500 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs within eight schools.

The Lemieux Library was founded in 1991. As of 2011 it contained 216,677 books and subscribed to 1,604 periodicals. It is a member of the American Theological Library Association.

Physical Collections: The Seattle University Library contains around 400 hard copies and text resources related to the Expos, the content is available in English, French, and other languages.

Digital Collections: The Seattle University Library contains over 500 e-books related to multiple Expos.

The Museum of History & Industry

The Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) is a history museum in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the largest private heritage organization in Washington state,it has around 4 million objects in the collection, including roughly 100,000 three dimensional artifacts, over 3 million photographs, and around 200,000 archival holdings. Collections focus on Seattle's early settlement (ca. 1850) through the present day, and concentrate on the stories and achievements of Seattle and King County residents. The three dimensional collection encompasses a range of items such as textiles, fine art, decorative arts, household objects, maritime equipment, early computers, vehicles and more. The museum also has a growing collection of oral histories from long-time Puget Sound residents.

Digital Collections: The Museum of History & Industry contains over 700 digital resources related to multiple Expos, including pictures, manuscripts, maps, e-books, movies, and other forms.

San Antonio：

If you know any local institutions that have a large amount of Expo-themed resources collected, please email us at library@expo.cn. The WE Library will update the information accordingly. Thank you very much.

Spokane：

Spokane Public Library

The Spokane Public Library is a public library system serving the city of Spokane, Washington, US. It has five branches and a central library in downtown Spokane, along with a bookmobile and online services. The library system was acquired by the municipal government in 1894 and is funded by the city budget and a separate property tax.

Physical Collections: The Spokane Public Library collected about 300 hard copies related to Expo; the content is available in English, French, and other languages.

Digital Collections: The Spokane Public Library contains over 80 e-books related to multiple Expos; the content is available in English, Japanese, and other languages.

Spokesman-Review

The Spokesman-Review is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Spokane, Washington, the city's sole remaining daily publication. It has the third-highest readership among daily newspapers in the state, with most of its readership base in eastern Washington and northern Idaho.

After contacting the Spokesman-Review, their archives can provide digital copies of all the published articles by the Spokesman-Review since 1881, including the article related to International Exposition on the Environment, Spokane 1974.

Knoxville：

KNOX COUNTY TENNESSEE PUBLIC LIBRARY

As the oldest continuously operating public library in the state of Tennessee, we have a proud heritage. Today, the Knox County Public Library is pleased to offer more than one million books, periodicals, compact discs, films, audiobooks and downloadables through 19 locations across Knox County including one of the premier historical and genealogical collections in the Southeast.

Physical Collections: The Knox County Tennessee Public Library collected over 300 hard copies and text resources related to multiple Expos; the content is available in English, French, and other languages.

Digital Collections: The library contains over 50 e-books related to multiple Expos.

New Orleans：

New Orleans Public Library

With origins dating back to 1843, the New Orleans Public Library has grown into an active system with 15 locations throughout the City. The Library provides access to a wide variety of free materials, programs, and services for all ages.

Physical Collections: The library has collected over 300 hard copies and text resources related to multiple Expos; the content is available in English, French, and other languages.

Digital Collections: The New Orleans Public Library contains over 100 e-books related to multiple Expos.

TROVE：

State Library Victoria

URL：https://trove.nla.gov.au/

Trove is an Australian online library database aggregator and service which includes full text documents, digital images, bibliographic and holdings data of items which are not available digitally, and a free faceted-search engine as a discovery tool. The database includes archives, images, newspapers, official documents, archived websites, manuscripts and other types of data. Hosted by the National Library of Australia in partnership with content providers, including members of the National and State Libraries Australia, it is one of the most well-respected and accessed GLAM services in Australia, with over 70,000 daily users.

Physical Collections: The database contains thousands of items related to the Expo, including books, maps, and other forms.

Digital Collections: The database contains over 10 thousand pieces of Expo-themed digital resources, including pictures, newspapers, videos, and other forms.

Melbourne：

State Library Victoria

URL：https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/

The State Library Victoria is the main library of the Australian state of Victoria. Located in Melbourne, it was established in 1854 as the Melbourne Public Library, making it Australia's oldest public library and one of the first free libraries in the world. It is also Australia's busiest library and, as of 2018, the fourth most-visited library in the world.

The library's vast collection includes over two million books and 350,000 photographs, manuscripts, maps and newspapers, with a special focus on material from Victoria, including the diaries of the Melbourne's founders, John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner, the folios of Captain James Cook, and the armour of Ned Kelly.

Physical Collections: The State Library of Victoria has approximately 2,000 text resources related to previous Expos; the content is available in English, French, Chinese, and other languages.

Digital Collections: The State Library of Victoria contains over 1,000 e-books related to multiple Expos; the content is available in English, French, German, and other languages. The resources available are limited for online browsing.

Museums Victoria：

URL：https://museumsvictoria.com.au/

The Museums Victoria Library collection was first established in the 1850s as a working collection for the Museum's curators, and has developed into one of the best collections of natural history books and journals in Australia.

Today, the library collection is located at Melbourne Museum and contains 40,000 titles, which includes around 1,000 titles that are considered to be rare due to one or a combination of factors, including: value; scarcity; aesthetic qualities; historic, scientific or institutional significance; fragility; or age. Collection strengths include natural history in the fields of zoology, geology and palaeontology, scientific expedition reports, society and institutional journal titles, Indigenous cultures of Australia and the Pacific, Australian history, technology, colonial and other exhibition catalogues, museum studies, and Museums Victoria publications.

The Museums Victoria has about 15,000 items related to the Expo, 3,000 of which are text documentation.

Brisbane：

Brisbane City Council library

URL：https://library-brisbane.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/eLibCat

Brisbane City Council is dedicated to a liveable city, creating more leisure options and better facilities and venues for all ages to enjoy. Council libraries provide a wide range of services including book clubs, reading programs, computer training, events and workshops. Visit your local library to join, renew or borrow books, and use the many resources on offer.

Physical Collections: The Brisbane City Council Library has collected over 150 text resources related to multiple Expos; the content is available in English, French, and other languages.

Barcelona：

Ramon Llull University Library

Ramon Llull University (URL) currently has 15 specialised libraries, 1.553 reading points of lecture and more than one million of documents. The majority of the URL's background is integrated into the catalog of libraries of the URL and can be borrowed through the library of each center.

Physical Collections: The Ramon Llull University Library contains over 850 text resources related to multiple Expos, the content is available in English, French, Spanish, and other languages.

URL：https://www.url.edu/en/services/libraries/library-collections

Arxiu Municipal Contemporani de Barcelona

URL：http://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/arxiumunicipal/arxiucontemporani/en/institutional-fonds

The Contemporary Archives were set up as a result of a proposal to reorganise the Municipal Archives approved by Barcelona City Council in 1917. In recent years, there has been an increase in the records managed by the AMCB, not only due to the periodic incorporation of records from municipal agencies but also of those generated by the bodies responsible for organising major city projects, such as the 1888 Universal Exposition, 1929 International Exposition, 1992 Olympic Games, the Holding Olímpic SA and the 2004 Forum of Cultures.

Physical Collections: The Arxiu Municipal Contemporani de Barcelona preserves a variety of important documents of Barcelona’s city projects since the beginning of the 19th century, including the resources of the Universal Exhibition of Barcelona 1888 and International Exhibition of Barcelona 1929; it also has resources of 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. The Barcelona Archives has collected systematic and comprehensive documents related to the Barcelona Expos, it includes the important meeting minutes of the organizers, major project materials, pavilion contracts, reports of the awards, summary statistics, pictures of the Expo Site, promotional resources, related publications, and so on.

Seville：

Medina County District Library

URL：https://search.clevnet.org/client/en_US/me-main

Introduction: Medina County District Library is a public library located in Seville. The library was established in 1877 and moved to the current address in 2014.

Physical Collections: The public library contains over 650 text resources related to multiple Expos. The content is available in English, French, Spanish, and other languages.

Digital Collections: The public library contains over 120 e-books related to multiple Expos.

Zaragoza：

Bibliotecas de Aragón

URL：https://bibliotecas.aragon.es/cgi-bin/opac/O7115/ID0df7fd2c?ACC=101

Introduction: The ARAGÓN Public Library network was established in May 2004, it consists of Zaragoza Municipal Library, Huesca Municipal Library, Teruel Public Library, and over 90 municipal public libraries. So far, it contains about 2 million pieces of information.

Physical Collections: The library has collected more than 300 text resources related to multiple Expos. The content is available in English, French, Spanish, and other languages.

Brussel：

Royal Library of Belgium

URL：https://www.kbr.be/en/

The Royal Library of Belgium (French: Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Dutch: Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, abbreviated KBR and sometimes nicknamed Albertine in French or Albertina in Dutch) is the national library of Belgium. There are four million bound volumes in the Royal Library, including a rare book collection numbering 45,000 works. The library has more than 700,000 engravings and drawings, 150,000 maps and plans, and more than 250,000 objects, from coins to scales to monetary weights.

Physical Collections: The Royal Library of Belgium currently has about 5,000 pieces of text resources related to multiple Expos. The content is available in English, French, and other languages.

Digital Collections: The public library contains about 600 e-books related to multiple Expos. The resources are available in English, French, German, and other languages.

Liege：

Liège Université Library

URL：https://lib.uliege.be/fr/libraries/alpha

Faced with radical changes in access to information and user needs, which were linked to the sudden rise of digital technology, ULiège made the decision to modernise its libraries in 2003. It also reorganised them in depth, in order to enable them to fulfil their roles more effectively.

Physical Collections: The library contains around 2,000 hard copies related to Expo. The resources are available in Engish, French, German, and other languages.

Digital Collations: the public library contains about 250 pieces of digital resources of multiple Expos, including papers, reports, lecture notes, etc., which are available in English, German, and other languages.

Gent：

Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent

URL：https://lib.ugent.be/

After Ghent University was founded in 1817, books confiscated by the state during the French period were given to the university.

The library has evolved in recent years, focusing on decentralization and networking rather than a central facility. Some collections of books are to be found in the faculty libraries; but some books are conventionally gathered together in the University library.

Physical Collections: The library contains 3 million pieces of resources. It is one of the largest libraries in Belgium. The Gent University Library has collected about 750 textual resources related to multiple Expos, including hard copies, periodicals, and other media. The resources are available in English, French, German, and other languages.

Digital Collections: The public library contains circa 6,000 pieces of digital resources related to multiple Expos, including e-books, periodicals, papers, etc. The collections are available in English, French, Italian, German, and other languages. The library registered members can browse and download limited digital resources.

Milan：

Sistema Bibliotecario di Milano

URL：https://milano.biblioteche.it/library/sormani/

Introduction: The Sistema Bibliotecario di Milano has one of the largest library systems in Italy. It is a well-stocked library with effective up-to-date resources, particularly with its rich resources in humanities, justice, arts, and sciences.

Physical Collections: The library contains about 750 textual resources related to Expo. The resources are available in English, French, German, Italian, and other languages.

Digital Collations: The public library contains about 100 e-books related to multiple Expos. The resources are available in English, Italian, and other languages.

Roma：

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma

URL：http://bve.opac.almavivaitalia.it/opac2/BVE/CR/ricercaSemplice

The Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma (Rome National Central Library), in Rome, is one of two central national libraries of Italy, along with Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze in Florence. In total, 9 national libraries exist, out of 46 state libraries.

The library's mission is to collect and preserve all the publications in Italy and the most important foreign works, especially those related to Italy,and make them available to anyone.The collection currently includes more than 7,000,000 printed volumes, 2,000 incunabula, 25,000 cinquecentine (16th century books), 8,000 manuscripts, 10,000 drawings, 20,000 maps, and 1,342,154 brochures.

Physical Collections: The library contains about 600 hard copies related to Expo. The resources are available in English, French, Italian, and other languages.

Naples：

BIBLIOTECA NAZIONALE DI NAPOLI

URL： http://www.bnnonline.it/

The Biblioteca nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III (Victor Emmanuel III National Library) is a national library of Italy. It occupies the eastern wing of the 18th-century Palazzo Reale in Naples, at 1 Piazza del Plebiscito, and has entrances from piazza Trieste e Trento. It is funded and organised by the Direzione Generale per i Beni Librari and the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali.

In quantitative terms it is the third largest library in Italy, after the national libraries in Rome and Florence, with 1,480,747 printed volumes, 319,187 pamphlets, 18,415 manuscripts, more than 8,000 periodicals, 4,500 incunabula and the 1,800 Herculaneum papyri.

Physical Collections: The library contains about 400 textual resources related to previous Expos. The resources are available in English, French, Italian, and other languages.

Digital Collections: The library contains about 50 e-books related to multiple Expos.

Turin：

If you know any local institutions have a large amount of Expo-themed resources collected, please email us at library@expo.cn. The WE Library will update the information on the list. Thank you very much.

Genoa：

BIBLIOTECA UNIVERSITARIA DI GENOVA

URL：http://www.bibliotecauniversitaria.ge.it/it/

the library has precious pieces coming from the XIII century (Messale fiorentino composed for the church of S. Reparata, illustrated, before 1296 and the Liber Iurium Reipublicae Genuensis, etc), XIV century (Apparatus libri VI decretalium of Guido de Baisio) and XV century (Historia Alessandri Magni of Curzio Rufo in the version of the Portuguese humanist Vasco de Lucena, burgundian code, datable about to the 1475, richly illustrated).

Besides the llustrated codes and the manuscripts of Collegio dei Gesuiti (College Of The Jesuits), the library keeps several documentary and archival funds as the Angelico Aprosio Epistolario (Collection of letters) (5.550 inventory units); the Autografi (Autographs) fund (with more than 14.000 letters); autografi (Autographs) del (of the) Risorgimento (about 3.367 letters and documents concerning Nino Bixio).

Physical Collections: The library contains about 100 pieces of Expo related textual resources, such as hard copies, periodicals. The resources are available in English, Italian, and other languages.

Stockholm：

National Library of Sweden

URL：https://www.kb.se/

The National Library of Sweden (Swedish: Kungliga biblioteket, KB, meaning "the Royal Library") is Sweden's national library. As such it collects and preserves all domestic printed and audio-visual materials in Swedish, as well as content with Swedish association published abroad. Being a research library, it also has major collections of literature in other languages.

The collections of the National Library consist of more than 18 million objects,including books, posters, pictures, manuscripts, and newspapers.The audio-visual collection consists of more than 7 million hours of recorded material.

Physical Collections: In the system of National Library of Sweden, there are circa 4,000 books related to previous Expos. The resources are available in English, French, Swedish, and other languages. The visitors need to be registered to the library before they can apply for reading resources in the library, and all the resources have to stay within the library.

Digital Collections: The library contains about 2,500 pieces of digital resources related to multiple Expos, including papers, periodicals, magazines, and other forms. The resources are available in English, French, German, and other languages.

Helsingborg：

Helsingborg City Library

URL：https://www.bibliotekfh.se/sv/library-page/helsingborgs-stadsbibliotek?refId=UpYpE

Introduction: The Helsingborg City Library is one of the major library institutions in Sweden.

Physical Collections: The library contains dozens of hard copies related to Expo. The resources are available in English, French, Swedish, and other languages.

Helsinki：

National Library of Finland

URL：https://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/

The National Library of Finland (Finnish: Kansalliskirjasto, Swedish: Nationalbiblioteket) is the foremost research library in Finland. Administratively the library is part of the University of Helsinki. Until 1 August 2006, it was known as the Helsinki University Library.

The National Library is responsible for storing the Finnish cultural heritage. By Finnish law, the National Library is a legal deposit library and receives copies of all printed matter, as well as audiovisual materials excepting films, produced in Finland or for distribution in Finland. These copies are then distributed by the Library to its own national collection and to reserve collections of five other university libraries.Also, the National Library has the obligation to collect and preserve materials published on the Internet.

Physical Collections: The National Library of Finland has collected over 1,000 textual resources related to multiple Expos. The resources are available in English, French, German, Swedish, and other languages.

Digital Collections: The library contain about 1,000 pieces of digital resources related to multiple Expos, including papers, periodicals, magazines, etc. The resources are available in English, French, Swedish, and other languages.

Pory-au-Prince:

If you know any local institutions that have a large amount of Expo-themed resources collected, please email us at library@expo.cn. The WE Library will update the information on the list. Thank you very much.

Jerusalem:

The National Library of Israel (NLI; Hebrew: הספרייה הלאומית‎, romanized: HaSifria HaLeumit; Arabic: المكتبة الوطنية في إسرائيل‎), formerly Jewish National and University Library (JNUL; Hebrew: בית הספרים הלאומי והאוניברסיטאי‎, romanized: Beit Ha-Sfarim Ha-Le'umi ve-Ha-Universita'i), is the library dedicated to collecting the cultural treasures of Israel and of Jewish heritage. The library holds more than 5 million books, and is located on the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The National Library owns the world's largest collections of Hebraica and Judaica,and is the repository of many rare and unique manuscripts, books and artifacts.

Physical Collections: The library contains about 600 pieces of textual resources related to Expo. The resources are available in English, French, Hebrew, and other languages.

Berlin:

GERMAN NATIONAL LIBRARY

URL：https://www.dnb.de/DE/Home/home_node.html

The German National Library (German: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB)) is the central archival library and national bibliographic centre for the Federal Republic of Germany. Its task is to collect, permanently archive, comprehensively document and record bibliographically all German and German-language publications since 1913, foreign publications about Germany, translations of German works, and the works of German-speaking emigrants published abroad between 1933 and 1945, and to make them available to the public.

Physical Collections: As of 2015, the library has collected 29.7 million books. Within the library system, there are nearly 2,100 hard copies of previous Expos. The resources are available in English, French, German, and other languages.

Digital Collections: The public library contains about 650 e-books related to multiple Expos, some of which can be downloaded and read after registering to the library.

链接：https://www.ub.hu-berlin.de/de

Since the premises of the State Library had to be cleared in 2005, a new library building was erected close to the main building in the center of Berlin. The "Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm-Zentrum" (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Centre, Grimm Zentrum, or GZ as referred to by students) opened in 2009.

In total, the university library contains about 6.5 million volumes and 9,000 held magazines and journals, and is one of the biggest university libraries in Germany.

Physical Collection: The University Library of Humboldt contains approximately 300 hard copies related to Expo. The resources are available in English, French, German, and other languages.

Hamburg:

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Munich:

Bavarian State Library

URL：https://www.bsb-muenchen.de

The Bavarian State Library (German: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, abbreviated BSB, called Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis before 1919) in Munich is the central "Landesbibliothek", i. e. the state library of the Free State of Bavaria, the biggest universal and research library in Germany and one of Europe's most important universal libraries. With its collections currently comprising around 10.89 million books (as of 2019), it ranks among the best research libraries worldwide. Moreover, its historical stock encompasses one of the most important manuscript collections of the world, the largest collection of incunabula worldwide, as well as numerous further important special collections,it's collection of historical prints before 1850 number almost one million units.

Physical Collections: The library contains about 1,500 pieces of textual resources related to multiple Expos. The resources are available in English, French, German, and other languages.

Digital Collections: The library has over 2,000 pieces of digital resources related to multiple Expos. The resources are available in English, French, German, and other languages.

Stuttgart:

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Hanover:

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Rostock:

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Rotterdam：

Bibliotheek Rotterdam

URL：http://www.bibliotheek.rotterdam.nl/

The Central Library of Rotterdam (Dutch: Bibliotheek Rotterdam) is one of the largest libraries in the Netherlands.It has more than 2.4 million visitors annuallyand is the most visited cultural institution in Rotterdam.

Amsterdam：

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The Hague：

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Haarlemmermeer：

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Venlo：

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Montreal：

Montreal Public Libraries

The municipally-run Montreal Public Libraries Network includes 67 libraries, including 44 libraries in the city of Montreal and 12 branches in other municipalities on the Island of Montreal.

Physical Collections: In the system of the Montreal Public Libraries, there are nearly 500 hard copies of previous Expos. The resources are available in English, French, German, and other languages.

Digital Collections: The public library contains about 1,500 pieces of Expo-themed digital resources, which are in English, French, Spanish, and other languages.

URL：http://montreal.pretnumerique.ca/

Vancouver：

Vancouver Public Library

URL：http://www.vpl.ca/

Vancouver Public Library (VPL) is the public library system for the city of Vancouver, British Columbia. The Vancouver Public Library includes a large collection of books and digital content. The Vancouver Public Library system now consists of 22 branches situated throughout the city.

Physical Collections: The library contains about 550 pieces of textual resources related to multiple Expos, which are available in English, French, German, Swedish, and other languages.

Digital Collections: The public library contains over 20 e-books related to multiple Expos.

National Diet Library Digital Collections

URL：http://dl.ndl.go.jp/

The National Diet Library (NDL) (国立国会図書館, Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan) is the national library of Japan and among the largest libraries in the world. It was established in 1948 for the purpose of assisting members of the National Diet of Japan (国会, Kokkai) in researching matters of public policy.

As Japan's national library, the NDL collects copies of all publications published in Japan. Moreover, because the NDL serves as a research library for Diet members, their staffs, and the general public, it maintains an extensive collection of materials published in foreign languages on a wide range of topics.

The resource database contains nearly 10,000 pieces of documents related to multiple Expos, including Japan Expos and relevant information of participation in exhibitions. The forms include e-books, magazines, archives, sound records and videos, etc. The resources are mainly in Japanese, and it is available for free reading and downloading.

Osaka：

Osaka Prefectural Central Library

URL：http://www.library.pref.osaka.jp/site/central/english.html

Physical Collections: Via OPAC, more than 1000 titles are  found related to Expos, which are available in English, French, Japanese, and other languages.

URL：https://www.oml.city.osaka.lg.jp/

ntroduction: The Osaka Municipal Library is 90 years old since it’s opening in June 1921.

Physical Collections: The library currently contains about 750 pieces of textual resources related to multiple Expos, which are available in English, French, Japanese, and other languages.

URL：https://www.oml.city.osaka.lg.jp/

ntroduction: The Osaka Municipal Library is 90 years old since it’s opening in June 1921.

Physical Collections: The library currently contains about 750 pieces of textual resources related to multiple Expos, which are available in English, French, Japanese, and other languages.

Okinawa：

OKINAWA CITY LIBRARY

URL：https://www.city.okinawa.okinawa.jp/sp/lib/

Okinawa Prefectural Library (沖縄県立図書館, Okinawa Kenritsu Toshokan) opened in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan in 1910. Iha Fuyū was the first director. The library reopened in a new building in 1983. As of 2016, the collection numbers some 708,000 items, of which almost a fifth are on open access.

Physical Collections: The library contains dozens of pieces of textual resources related to multiple Expos, which are available in English, Japanese, and other languages.

Tsukuba：

つくば市立中央図書館

URL：https://lib.city.tsukuba.ibaraki.jp/opac/wopc/pc/pages/TopPage.jsp

Physical Collections: The library contains dozens of pieces of textual resources related to multiple Expos, which are available in English, Japanese, and other languages.

Aichi：

Aichi Prefectural Library

URL：http://websv.aichi-pref-library.jp/winj/opac/search-detail.do?lang=ja

The Aichi Prefectural Library has the majority of its books and materials arranged according to subject in open access stacks on the 1st to 4th floors.

Collections: about 1060,000

Magazines and Journals: 2,400

Physical Collections: The library contains about 700 pieces of textual resources related to multiple Expos, which are available in English, French, Japanese, and other languages.

Budapest：

National Széchényi Library

URL：http://m.oszk.hu/?from=/

The National Széchényi Library (Hungarian: Országos Széchényi Könyvtár) (OSZK) is a library in Budapest, Hungary.The library was founded in 1802 by the highly patriotic Hungarian aristocrat Count Ferenc Széchényi.

Physical Collections: The library contains about 1,300 pieces of resources related to previous Expos, including textual resources. The resources are available in English, French, Hungarian, and other languages.

Plovdiv：

Plovdiv National Library

URL：https://libplovdiv.com/index.php/en/za-nas-en

The National Library "Ivan Vazov" in Plovdiv performs the functions of a second national repository. The Library has a great contribution to the preservation of the Bulgarian cultural and historical heritage. It is the largest public library in Bulgaria. Along with the National Library and one of the other libraries in the country, it keeps and preserves for generations a complete Archive of the Bulgarian Book.

Today, the Plovdiv National Library is a universally accessible scientific library with a fund of 1,925,000 library documents. Annually, about 120,000 visits have been realized and approx. 295,000 library documents have been loaned. The Library has a rich universal fund of scientific literature, fiction, manuscripts, paleootypes, old printed, rare and valuable publications, rich reference books, Bulgarian and foreign periodicals, audiovisual and electronic documents, original works of art, personal libraries.

Daejeon：

DAEJEON Seogu Gasuwon Public Library

URL：http://www.seogu.go.kr/learning/gasuwonlib/index.do

Introduction: The library was opened on February 25, 2000, with its determination of providing information, cultural activities, reading activities and lifelong education to local residents. As of 2019, there are more than 1.11 million hard copies in the collection. Introduction: The library was opened on February 25, 2000, with its determination of providing information, cultural activities, reading activities and lifelong education to local residents. As of 2019, there are more than 1.11 million hard copies in the collection.

Physical Collections : The library contains about 100 pieces of textual resources related to multiple Expos, which are available in English, Korean, and other languages.

Yeosu：

YEOSU MUNICIPAL LIBRARY

URL：http://yslib.yeosu.go.kr/main/

Introduction: The library has been running for more than 50 years since 1965. Currently, the library has over 1.45 million collections with a digital library and a spacious reading area.

Physical Collections: The library contains about 300 pieces of textual resources related to multiple Expos, including hard copies, periodicals, and other textual forms. The resources are available in English, Korean, and other languages.

Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal

The Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (Portuguese for National Library of Portugal) is the Portuguese national library, fulfilling the function of legal deposit and copyright.

The BNP's mission is to collect, process and preserve the Portuguese documentary heritage, including documents in Portuguese and about Portugal, whatever their format or carrier. It is also charged with studying and disseminating that heritage and ensuring the conditions which people need in order to be able to enjoy it, as well as classifying and inventorying the nation's bibliographic heritage assets.

The General Collection is the BNP's largest, with more than 3 million items, most of which are Portuguese publications. It covers the period from the 16th to the 21st centuries.

Physical Collections: The library contains about 1,000 pieces of textual resources related to multiple Expos, which are available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages.

URL：http://www.bnportugal.gov.pt/

Digital Collections: The library contains about 100 pieces of digital resources related to multiple Expos, which are available in English, French, and other languages.

URL：http://catalogo.bnportugal.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=bn&menu=tab20

URL：http://arquivomunicipal.cm-lisboa.pt/pt/

Introduction: As a city archives, the Arquivomunicipal de Lisboa preserves a large number of historial documents and research materials about Lisbon, which has a great importance to the research of local and regional history. You can find extraordinary important documents about Lisbon there within historical documents since the 12th Century. These documents are inseparable from Lisbon’s history. Such as D. Afonso II, do Foral outorgado a Lisboa por D. Afonso Henriques，Foral Manuelino, o Livro de Carmesim, o Livro dos Pregos, o Cartulário Pombalino, o Livros de Cordeamentos, and the Senate Records.

Kunming

Kunming Library

URL：http://ilasweb.kmlib.yn.cn/

Introduction: The Kunming Library is a national, prefectural and municipal first-level library, which was established in 1926. It is a comprehensive and popular municipal public library that has over 1.27 million pieces of textual documents, 300,000 pieces of e-books, over 2,000 kinds of periodicals. There are more than 1,000 seats, full-open shelves for general books, periodicals, providing services to visitors.

Physical Collections: The library contains about 100 pieces of textual resources related to Expo.

Shanghai：

Shanghai Library：

URL：https://library.sh.cn/#/index

The Shanghai Library (Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of Shanghai) is a national postdoctoral research center, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism Research Center for Public Culture Affairs, the branch of the National Cultural Information Resource Sharing Project in Shanghai, the Shanghai Historical Collection Preservation and Conservation Center, the main library of the Shanghai Central Library System, the "Cutting-edge Technology Development Research Center" of the Shanghai soft science research base, and the Information Center of Shanghai Cultural Creative Industry. The Shanghai Library now has a collection of over 56,000,000 items in Chinese and foreign languages, including unique resources such as rare books, letters and rubbings, celebrity manuscripts, genealogical records and local histories, Western rare books, sheet music, modern newspapers and periodicals, and patents and standards. The Library has a total area of 127,000 square meters

Physical Collection: The library contains about 1,000 pieces of textual resources related to Expos, which are available in English, French, Japanese, Chinese, and other languages.

Beijing：

Capital Library of China：

URL：http://www.clcn.net.cn/#Search

The history of the Capital Library of China dates back to 1913, covers an area of 38,000 ㎡with the total building area of 94,000 ㎡, it can accommodate 20,000 readers per day.

The Capital Library of China houses more than 9.26 million books of all kinds. There are about 500,000 ancient books with 6,000 rare ones, with the Chewangfu Music Book containing 1,600 written works on traditional opera and Chinese folk art songs, about 60,000 kinds of local literature with the total number of 160,000 volumes, more than 20,000 old disks covering traditional opera, Chinese folk art songs and music with precious ones on Peking opera, cross talk and pop songs。

Physical Collections: The library contains about 300 pieces of textual resources related to Expo, which are available in English, French, German, Chinese, and other languages.

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF CHINA：

URL：http://www.nlc.cn/

The National Library of China (NLC) serves as the repository of the nation's publications, a national bibliographic center, a national center for preservation and conservation of ancient books, as well as the national museum of ancient books. The major responsibility of the NLC includes: the collection and preservation of domestic and foreign publications; national coordination of document preservation and conservation work; provision of information and reference services to the central government, national authorities, social organizations, and the general public; research in the theory of library sciences and development of librarianship, and guidance to other libraries in China; the fulfillment of its function in international cultural exchanges through participation in the activities of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and other related international organizations, as well as the promotion of exchanges and cooperation with other libraries in China and abroad.

Physical Collections: The library contains 4 types of textual resources totaling to 2,200 pieces related to Expo, which are approximately 2,000 copies of comprehensive resources and professional resources of Expos, around 40 copies of the Milan Triennale, and about 200 copies of the World Horticultural Expositions, which are available in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, and other languages.

Digital Collections: The National Library of China’s “Wenjin” Search system integrates the bibliographic data of multiple institutions. It can find and search books, micro documentaries, papers, periodicals, and newspapers. There are over 30,000 pieces of resources related to Expo, including papers, periodicals, hard copies, and other forms of resources, the resources are mainly available in Chinese.

Chiang Mai

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Antalya：

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Nur-Sultan：

National Academic Library of Republic of Kazakhstan

URL：http://nabrk.kz/

The National Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan (the NLRK)was given special state and public significance as a particularly valuable cultural object of the Republic. The NLRK collections include 5.5 million publications in 100 languages of the world. Researchers are attracted by the collection of rare books and manuscripts. These number about 25 thousand volumes in the Kazak, Russian, Oriental and Western European languages from the eleventh to the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries.

Physical Collections: The library contains about 50 pieces of textual resources related to multiple Expos, including books, periodicals, and other media. The resources are available in English, Kazakh, and other languages.