NAICS 519120 · Information
Libraries and Archives: Business Name Ideas
48 name ideas, the official industry definition, and 2,299 U.S. business locations broken down by state.
What this industry covers
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing library or archive services. These establishments are engaged in maintaining collections of documents (e.g., books, journals, newspapers, and music) and facilitating the use of such documents (recorded information regardless of its physical form and characteristics) as required to meet the informational, research, educational, or recreational needs of their user. These establishments may also acquire, research, store, preserve, and generally make accessible to the public historical documents, photographs, maps, audio material, audiovisual material, and other archival material of historical interest. All or portions of these collections may be accessible electronically.
Businesses classified here include
- Archives
- Bookmobiles
- Centers for documentation (i.e., archives)
- Circulating libraries
- Film archives
- Lending libraries
- Libraries (except motion picture stock footage, motion picture commercial distribution)
- Motion picture film libraries, archives
- Music archives
- Reference libraries
Definition and examples from the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 519120), U.S. Census Bureau.
Name ideas for libraries and archives
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U.S. business numbers
Locations by number of employees nationwide
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022. Counts cover employer establishments (businesses with paid employees); self-employed owners without staff are not included. Small establishments with 1–4 employees include those that reported no paid employees in mid-March.
Top states for libraries and archives
- New York 592 locations
- Pennsylvania 468 locations
- Texas 118 locations
- Maine 108 locations
- Connecticut 83 locations
- California 79 locations
- Massachusetts 71 locations
- Vermont 58 locations
- Virginia 51 locations
- New Jersey 48 locations
All 47 states
- Alabama (16)
- Alaska (5)
- Arizona (10)
- Arkansas (9)
- California (79)
- Colorado (19)
- Connecticut (83)
- Delaware (11)
- District of Columbia (5)
- Florida (27)
- Georgia (19)
- Idaho (5)
- Illinois (47)
- Indiana (14)
- Iowa (9)
- Kansas (37)
- Kentucky (7)
- Louisiana (12)
- Maine (108)
- Maryland (32)
- Massachusetts (71)
- Michigan (42)
- Minnesota (14)
- Mississippi (15)
- Missouri (14)
- Montana (3)
- Nebraska (8)
- New Hampshire (19)
- New Jersey (48)
- New Mexico (12)
- New York (592)
- North Carolina (36)
- North Dakota (3)
- Ohio (26)
- Oklahoma (19)
- Oregon (21)
- Pennsylvania (468)
- Rhode Island (39)
- South Carolina (21)
- Tennessee (10)
- Texas (118)
- Utah (4)
- Vermont (58)
- Virginia (51)
- Washington (10)
- West Virginia (11)
- Wisconsin (7)