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Library at Alexandria 8x $812 avg J:3 DJ:5
J $200 1994 Virginia's 1st public library opened in 1794 in this city that shares its name with an Egyptian library site
J $500 1985 This ancient Egyptian marvel had a copy of every existing scroll known to its librarians
DJ $1,200 DD 1989 It was the most famous library in the ancient world
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Chicago 7x 28.6% stumper $543 avg J:5 DJ:2
J $100 2001 This city's Harold Washington Library Center is the USA's largest municipal library building
J $800 2025 A 1928 Northwest Airways ad offered early passenger service between Minneapolis-St. Paul & Cicero Field in this city
DJ $1,200 2017 The Harold Washington Library Center is this city's main public library
the Vatican Library 7x 42.9% stumper $529 avg J:4 DJ:3
J $100 1999 It's the central library of the Roman Catholic Church
DJ $800 2015 Dominico Fontant designed this library of the pontiffs in the late 1500s
J $1,000 2005 In 1451 Nicholas V founded this library "for the common convenience of the learned"
Bethesda 6x 50.0% stumper $1,683 avg J:1 DJ:5
J $500 DD 1993 The Natl. Library of Medicine in this Maryland community is the largest research library in a single scientific field
DJ $1,000 1996 This unincorporate Maryland community is home to the National Library of Medicine
DJ $1,000 1989 This Maryland community is home to the Naval Medical Center & the Nat'l Library of Medicine
the New York Public Library 6x 16.7% stumper $417 avg J:4 DJ:2
J $400 2018 Check it out--located at 42nd Street & Fifth Avenue, its cornerstone laying was November 10, 1902
J $500 DD 1995 This public library was founded in 1895 by consolidating the Astor & Lenox Libraries & the Tilden Trust
DJ $400 1989 In the 1984 film, this library was so haunted that the Ghostbusters ran out of it screaming
Andrew Carnegie 6x $733 avg J:3 DJ:3
DJ $400 2010 In 1889 this philanthropist funded his first U.S. library in Braddock, Penn., home to one of his steel mills
J $800 2013 In 1901 this steel baron donated millions to the library to help establish 39 branches around the city
J $1,000 DD 1990 In 1889 a Braddock, PA library became the first in the U.S. constructed by this businessman
Oxford 5x $440 avg J:3 DJ:2
J $200 1993 One of England's oldest libraries, the Bodleian, opened at this university in 1602
J $1,000 DD 2005 In 1598 Thomas Bodley began to rebuild the library at this university; it reopened in 1602
DJ $200 1990 This university's Bodleian Library is entitled to free copies of all books printed in England
Harvard 4x $900 avg J:1 DJ:3
J $300 1987 This university library w/more than 10 million books has just 1 of the 100s donated by its namesake in 1638
DJ $600 1985 It is for man who started library, not one who founded school, that this Mass. university is named
DJ $1,200 2021 Barack Obama & Scott Turow have studied at the world's largest academic law library, at this school
Worth Knowing (41)
Yale 3 Wales 3 the British Museum 3 Salt Lake City 3 Princeton 3 Notre Dame 3 Boston 3 Nixon 3 Madison 3 Gutenberg 3 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 3 Thomas Jefferson 3 Melvil Dewey 3 Trinity 2 the Bodleian Library 2 Samuel Pepys 2 Rochester, Minnesota 2 Pittsburgh 2 Oklahoma 2 New York 2 Michelangelo 2 Massachusetts 2 Maine 2 Ireland 2 Indiana 2 Howard University 2 Esperanto 2 Dag Hammarskjold 2 da Vinci 2 Cuba 2 bookmobiles 2 Benjamin Harrison 2 Belgium 2 Winston Churchill 2 U.S. Capitol 2 Trinity College 2 the Vatican 2 the Gutenberg Bible 2 the card catalog 2 the British Library 2 Mark Antony 2

Poetry

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the Library of Congress 13x $454 avg J:5 DJ:8
J $200 2013 America's poet laureate is officially called a consultant in poetry to this library
DJ $800 2022 You don't have to work in government to use the main reading room here, but you do need an appointment
DJ $1,600 2020 The Folger Library is in D.C. across 2nd Street SE from this much larger library
Worth Knowing (2)
Walt Whitman 3 Baylor 2

Shakespeare

2 answers | 4 clues
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the Folger Library 2 the Folger 2
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