It's National Library Week!

To celebrate National Library Week, let's discover some fun facts about libraries!

Did you know:

• There are more public libraries than McDonald's in the United States! 
• American students make about 1.5 billion visits to their school library every year!
• Reference librarians in the USA answer nearly 6.6 million questions every week! If all those people stood in line to ask their question, the line would stretch from Maryland to Alaska!
• The oldest continuously running library is in Sinai, Egypt: the S. Catherine's Monastery Library. It was built in the middle of the 6th Century.
• The world's largest library is the Library of Congress: 158 million items on over 800 miles of bookshelves.
• The most "borrowed" without being checked out book is the Bible, followed by the Guinness World Records Book.
• At some point in their lives, former Chinese dictator Mao Zedong, former First Lady Laura Bush, former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, author Beverly Cleary, and author Lewis Carroll were librarians.

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