Words, Words, Words

Next time you're unhappy about all the reading you're behind on, here's a figure to keep things in perspective. According to a survey by the Association of Research Libraries for the 1981-82 year, Harvard has more books than any research library system in the United States and Canada, with 10,409,228 volumes.

Yale ranked second in the survey, with 7,725,424 tomes. Next came the University of Illinois (6,242,615), the University of California at Berkeley (6,117,424), and the University of Michigan (5,481,172).