Systemwide Statistics:
Fiscal Year 1999
Summary
of Financial Activities for Fiscal Year 1999 (As of June 30, 1999)
Support
and Revenues:
Includes City, State, and Federal funds,
as well as private sources, investment income, and other income.
The Research Libraries: $95,656,000
The Branch Libraries: $120,323,000
Total Support and Revenue, 1999: $215,979,000
[Total Support and Revenue, 1998: $203,737,000]
Operating Expenses
Operating Expenses of The Research Libraries,
and Librarywide Programs: $101,949,000
Operating Expenses of The Branch Libraries:
$121,781,000
Total Operating Expenses, 1999: $223,730,000
[Total Operating Expenses, 1998: $205,951,000]
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The
Research Libraries
Locations: 4 -- Humanities and Social Sciences
Library; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture; and the Science, Industry and Business
Library
Collections: 41,709,454 items (13,991,994 books)
Users in FY 99:
1,974,992 total
- Humanities and
Social Sciences Library: 1,300,946
- The New York Public Library
for the Performing Arts:
54,203
- Schomburg Center
for Research in Black Culture: 44,022
- Science, Industry
and Business Library: 575,821
Reader Use
- Business/Professional
Users 35%
- Academic Users 17%
- Research Libraries
Group 3%
- Other 45%
Number of items consulted:
2,162,459
Reference inquiries (telephone):
257,017
Materials
preserved:
- Through restoration,
preservation, microfilming, and reprint: 110,811
- Other items:
17,154
- Hours of recorded
sound: 637
- Feet of motion
picture film: 36,000
- Hours of videotape
media: 407
- Volumes cleaned:
52,807
Employees: 1,157
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The
Branch Libraries
Locations: 85 -- in Manhattan, the Bronx,
and Staten Island
Collections: 10,421,691 items (4,341,485 books)
Users in FY99:
13,145,709 total
- Bronx: 4,417,387
- Manhattan: 4,672,177
- Staten Island:
1,553,636
- Central Library
Units: 2,502,509
Library card holders:
1.86 million
Reference inquiries: 6,739,512 (90,363 telephone reference service)
Directional inquiries:
5,746,416
Items circulated:
12,652,723
Distribution of
free material: 202,177
Internet user
sessions : 1,622,318
Web page views:
5,340,186
Free programs:
21,898
- Adult:
4,740
- Young Adult:
2,297
- Children: 13,009
- Special Services:1,852
Free program attendance:
419,539
- Adult: 92,013
- Young Adult:
45,033
- Children: 247,166
- Special Services:
35,327
Number of CLASP (Connecting
Libraries and Schools Project) programs: 4,036
CLASP program attendance:
99,339
Number of branch
exhibits: 2,336
Number of items
purchases: 870,474
Titles cataloged:
52,270
Number of volunteers:
864
Number of volunteer
hours: 33,078
Library-wide
Employees:
2,448 (719 are hourly)
Cyberfacts
Electronic visits
to NYPL website annually: 3,600,000
Countries accessing website: 155
Computers for public use: 1,900
Electronic databases for public use:
300
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Statistics
for previous years
Statistics for Fiscal Year 1998
Statistics for Fiscal Year 1997
Statistics for Fiscal Year 1996
Statistics for Fiscal Year 1995
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