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The William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library (commonly referred to as the Thompson Library) is the main library at Ohio State University's Columbus campus. It is the university's largest library and houses its main stacks, special collections, rare books and manuscripts, and many departmental subject libraries.
The William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library is located on the western edge of the iconic oval at the Ohio State University. It is named after the fifth president of the university.
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The largest library in the system is the Thompson Library. It locates at the very centre of the Columbus campus. Serving readers for several decades till the late 1990s, this library had some intolerable troubles, especially in storing space and furnishings.
- Harvard University (Cambridge, MA): 16,832,952.
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Dec 5, 2022 · College Xpress notes that at over 6 million books, Ohio State University has the 20 th largest collection in America. The library also creates culturally important exhibitions , such as ones that look at the death of Martin Luther King Jr and the Ohio State student uprising that followed.
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