Never did have a chance to step inside… and yet… you could still sense that the New York Public Library was an institution of knowledge. Its myriad collections ranking with those of the British Library, the Library of Congress, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
There are a total of 86 libraries scattered through New York and the Bronx that make up the NYPL. That’s a lot of books. And a heck of a lot of dewey cards.
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