Editing Chess libraries (section)

===Public===
Significant public chess libraries include: 

The '''John G. White Chess and Checkers Collection''' at [[Cleveland Public Library]] has the largest chess and draughts library in the world, with over 32,000 chess books and over 6,000 bound volumes of chess periodicals."<ref name="PolgarRecords">[[Susan Polgar]], [http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2008/02/chess-records.html Special Chess Records] (February 11, 2008). Retrieved on 2009-1-11.</ref> It was started with the donation of a quarter of a million dollars and 11,000 books from [[John G. White]]'s private library upon his death.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/john-g-white-collection-of-chess-and-checkers |title=John G. White Collection of Chess and Checkers |last=Root |first=Alexey |date=August 17, 2021 |website=Chess News |access-date=October 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124205620/https://en.chessbase.com/post/john-g-white-collection-of-chess-and-checkers |archive-date=January 24, 2022}}</ref>

The '''Chess & Draughts collection''' at the [[Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana]] (part of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the [[National Library of the Netherlands]]). The second largest public chess collection in the world is built on the donations of the private chess libraries of [[Antonius van der Linde]], [[Meindert Niemeijer]] and [[G.L. Gortmans]]. It contains about 30,000 books.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kb.nl/en/resources-research-guides/kb-collections/collections-by-theme/chess-and-draughts-collection |title=Chess & Draughts collection |website=National Library of the Netherlands |access-date=October 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150602095256/http://www.kb.nl/en/resources-research-guides/kb-collections/collections-by-theme/chess-and-draughts-collection |archive-date=June 2, 2015}}</ref>

The '''M.V. Anderson Chess Collection''' held at State Library Victoria (Melbourne, Australia) is the largest public chess collection in the Southern hemisphere.<ref>See research guide, [http://guides.slv.vic.gov.au/chess Chess Research Guide] </ref> This contains in excess of 12,000 books and many journal and newsletter titles. Additional titles are added each year. It is based around M.V. Anderson's personal collection of 6700 volumes donated between 1959 and 1966. <ref>See SLV Collection page, [https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/search-discover/explore-collections-theme/sport-games/chess Chess Collection page] </ref>

The English '''National Chess Library''' held at De Montfort University in Leicester holds around 7,000 books building on that of chess writer [[Harry Golombek]]<ref>https://www.englishchess.org.uk/national-chess-library-at-de-montfort-university/Nation Chess Library</ref>

[[File:Angeles_City_Library_and_Information_Center_(Pampanga)_30.jpg |thumb|Chess library ([[Angeles City]] Library and Information Center)]]