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Wednesday, 11th November 2009

The New York Times Serves Up Some "Fast Facts" About the New York Public Library

In a brief article titled, "Secrets of the Stacks," the NY Times offers up a bunch of "fast facts" about the NYPL. They include:

+ The NYPL (research libraries and branches) have a total of 20 million books, 50 million cataloged items.

+ Only the Library of Congress and the British Library are larger.

+ The library began its telephone reference service in 1968

+ The library has 40,000 restaurant menus, the world's largest collection, dating from the 1850s to the present.

+ Heaviest Book:
A tie between “Michelangelo: La Dotta Mano,” a handmade coffee-table-size trophy, and John James Audubon's 1830s first edition of “Birds of America,” with its life-size raptors and flamingos. Both weigh about 61 pounds.

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Source: NY Times

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