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MOST ALL-TIME: The New York Public Library's most borrowed book of all time is The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. As of 2020, it had been checked out over 485,500 times. 859: The year that the world's oldest continuously running library, al-Qarawiyyin Library in Fez, Morocco, opened. Its collection includes a ninth-century Quran written on camel skin. 288 YEARS: The longest-ever overdue book was borrowed from the Sidney Sussex College library in Cambridge, England, in 1668. It was finally returned in 1956. Sorry for the delay! LIBRARY LISTINGS Allow us to "lend" you some knowledge about these book- borrowing hotspots! TWO COUNTRIES, ONE LIBRARY: The Haskell Free Library is located between Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont. The Canada– United States border runs straight through it! Citizens of both countries can borrow books, but they must enter and leave through the doors in their own country. Learn about books, writers, and reading for International Literacy Day (September 8). BOOK IT! The first known written story was the Epic of Gilgamesh, written in Sumeria (Iraq today) in 2700 BC. It still survives on stone tablets. First. Story. Ever. The approximate number of published books in the world. (No, you don't need to read them all!) 130 MILLION Snapshot 18