By James Sherman

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

The Astor LibraryJohn Jacob Astor (1763-1848)

The Lenox Library

James Lenox ( 1880-1880)

Samuel J. TildenSamuel J. Tilden (1814-1886)AttorneyState AssemblymanChairman of the Democratic State

CommitteeGovernor of New York 1874-1878Upon his death, he bequeathed $4 Million

for “a free public library and reading room in New York City.”

Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie

“There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.”

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

5th AVENUE & 42ND STREET

Patience and Fortitude

Rose Reading Room

The People’s Palace(The biggest room in American without columns or a dome.)

7 floors of steel stacks.88 miles of bookshelves.

THE PEOPLE’S PALACE

Berg Collection of English and American Literature2000 linear feet of manuscripts and archives.30, 000 volumes.Including:Charles Dickens reading copy of “A Christmas

Carol.”1757 Notebook of George Washington.Working copy of texts by Elizabeth Barrett

Browning, Joseph Conrad, and T.S. Eliot.Handwritten copy of The Declaration of

Independence by Thomas Jefferson.

THE CONSERVATION LAB

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ON THE BEAT

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The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

New York Public Library of the Performing Arts

T O F T

New York Public Library of Science, Industry and Business

S I B L

BRONX LIBRARY CENTER

NYC Budget Restores Almost All Library Funding The New York City budget for Fiscal Year 2012 was approved

on Wednesday, June 29, and the City restored $36.7 million of the proposed $40 million cut for the New York Public Library. Below is a statement atttributed to New York Public Library Public Relations Director Angela Montefinise about this restoration:

"When it comes to libraries, the real winners this budget season are New Yorkers. Thanks to a sizable restoration from the City, all of our 90 locations across the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island will remain open, which means the people of New York will still have access to the critically important free services we offer that are being used now more than ever--computers and Internet, books, programs, classes, job search resources, and more. This budget also preserves a minimum of five-day service in our system, and allows us to avoid layoffs. We want to thank the people of New York for making their voices heard during a difficult budget season, and letting the City know how important libraries are to all.  We also want to thank Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council for keeping libraries open."