Facts for the public. . ich has a number of funds for special pur-poses, but its general book fund is inade-quate, and it is embarrassed by lack ofmoney for general administration. The Citypays for the Circulation Department, — thatis, the forty-two Branch Libraries and sixSub-branches, outside the Central Building,and the Library for the Blind. The head-quarters offices of the Circulation Depart-ment are in the Central Building. The City pays nothing for the ReferenceDepartment of the Library (in the CentralBuilding), — the Main Reading Room, andthe thirteen special reading roo
Facts for the public. . ich has a number of funds for special pur-poses, but its general book fund is inade-quate, and it is embarrassed by lack ofmoney for general administration. The Citypays for the Circulation Department, — thatis, the forty-two Branch Libraries and sixSub-branches, outside the Central Building,and the Library for the Blind. The head-quarters offices of the Circulation Depart-ment are in the Central Building. The City pays nothing for the ReferenceDepartment of the Library (in the CentralBuilding), — the Main Reading Room, andthe thirteen special reading rooms. Neitherthe Director of the Library (who admin-isters the Circulation as well as ReferenceDepartment) nor any employee of the Ref-erence Department is paid from public City pays nothing for the Central Cir-culation Branch and the Central ChildrensRoom on the Forty-second Street side of thebuilding. More books are borrowed fromthe Central Circulation Branch than fromany other Branch of the Library. [ 9 ]. REFERENCE DEPARTMENT The Reference Department of the Libraryis in the Central Building, 476 Fifth maintains a collection numbering 1,469,521volumes and pamphlets, which are for con-sultation within the building only, and bythe terms of the gifts and endowmentswhich provided them, may not be borrowedfor home use. This collection includes lit-erature on all subjects of interest both to thegeneral reader and to the student, but it isespecially rich in American history, the eco-nomic and social sciences, the useful arts,music and the other fine arts, public docu-ments and official publications of govern-ments and states, and files of there are large special libraries, else-where in the City, devoted to law, theology,medicine and biology, not so much attempthas been made in tecent years to obtainpublications upon the subjects. Special col-lections of books on American history; gene-alogy; art and architecture; music; Jewish,Slavonic and o
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