New York Public Library as seen from building across intersection of E. 42nd Street and Fifth Ave., 1915: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-133258)

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Description: The New York Public Library is of the foremost libraries in the world. It's vast and diversed collections ranking with those of the British Library, the Library of Congress, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The New York Public Library comprises simultaneously a set scholarly research collections and a network of community libraries, and its intellectual and cultural range is both global and local, while singularly attuned to New York City. The majority of the Library's many collections and services are freely available to all comers. That combination gives the Library an extraordinary richness.

It is comprised of 86 libraries in the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island: four world-acclaimed research libraries, a large network of neighborhood branch libraries, four central libraries with in-depth subject collections, and a library for the blind and physically handicapped. All libraries in the NYPL system may be used free of charge by all visitors.

The New York Public Library is visited and used annually by more than 15 million people. Its vast collections total over 7 million items and continue to expand at the rate of approximately 10,000 items per week in dozens of languages.

Additionally, the NYPL Digital Library is a continually expanding collection of digitized images and text selected from throughout the Research Libraries' collections.

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