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Phillips Exeter Academy Library

Phillips Exeter Academy Library is a library that serves Phillips Exeter Academy, an independent boarding school located in Exeter, New Hampshire. It is the largest secondary school library in the world, containing 160,000 volumes over nine levels with a shelf capacity of 250,000 volumes. When it became clear in the 1950s that the library had outgrown its existing building, the school initially hired an architect wh…

building

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1972

Exeter, United States

Education building

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Bureaus

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Books