READING IN NEW YORK
FOUR MILLION BOOKS IN LIBRARY. New York goes in for reading on a big scale, as is shown by the 1937 report of the director of the New York Public Library, an extract of which is quoted in the August-September issue of the Canterbury Public Library Journal. In the reference department 4,312,649 books were consulted by more than 2,000,000 readers, and from the circulating library and its 58 branches more than 10,000,000 books were borrowed. The total number of volumes and pamphlets in the reference department is 2,551,426 and in the circulating library there are 1,319,832 books. The children’s rooms of the branch libraries were responsible for circulating more than 3,000,000 books, borrowed by 235,000 children, and the adult membership consists of 505,640 persons. For the entire library there is a total of nearly 4,000,000 volumes. The New York City Council provided more than 1,000,000 dollars for the circulating department alone, and the total expenditure amounted to more than 3,000,000 dollars. The staff consists of 702 in the reference and 903 in the circulating department.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1938, Page 8
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179READING IN NEW YORK Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1938, Page 8
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