• There are 6 million books in our collection
• We are one of the five copyright Library’s in Britain – This means we have the right to claim any items published items within the UK, print and electronic.
• If you put all Library shelving in a row, they would stretch for 118 miles.
• 320 members of staff work at the Library, 46 of them are a Jones!
• We have 1.5 million maps in the collection
• Sir John Williams was the Library’s first President
• The smallest book in our collection is just 1mm x 1mm and includes the rhyme ‘Humpty Dumpty’
• One item from our collection, The Hendregadredd Manuscript was found in a wardrobe in Porthmadog.
• There is over 7,000,000 foot of film kept in the National Screen and Sound Archive’s collection
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