The Pedro Ferrándiz Library is the largest and most complete one in the world devoted to basketball.
It consists of more than 9.000 books, 800 magazine titles and more than 2.000 game & tournament programs from over 80 countries and in more than 30 languages. Donations, purchases, and exchanges are the core of the collection's growth.
In the sleeves of the Library, you will find technical publications including some of the most famous authors of the 21st century besides classics that inspired a great number of publications such as the books by Clair Bee, Forrest Anderson, and many others.
In the Olympic section, you can also find very valuable books, like the one featuring the comments of Pierre de Coubertin on the first modern Olympiad in 1897, the colored pictures o the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games, the Atlanta 1996 bulletins, and statistics from all the Olympic Games.
We have amazing books because of its size and it’s printing quality. Volumes with more than a thousand pages, some with beaty coloured pictures, and some could be considered art works. At the same time, we have very modest books, with a bad printed quality, but written with the same love and interest.
The oldest book we have in our library, “Official basketball rules” edited by Spalding in 1900, only 9 years after the basketball was invented.