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Online Catalog Center and The B. Altman Delivery Desk

The Online Catalog Center on the Lower Level is the electronic gateway to the vast collections of The New York Public Library. Users search CATNYP, the computerized public catalog of The New York Public Library's Research Libraries, as well as LEO, the computerized catalog of The Branch Libraries, and many other electronic resources.

The B. Altman Delivery Desk is the long, curved desk which serves as the delivery area for user-requested material brought down from the closed stacks. Requests are sent by pneumatic tubes to the appropriate stack level and delivered by one of the four elevators designed to hold a book truck. The time for an elevator to travel from the fifth stack level to the Delivery Desk is 34.5 seconds. The B. Altman Delivery Desk has been made possible by a generous gift from the Altman Foundation.

There are 31.2 miles of closed stack shelves holding 1.2 million volumes of research material on SIBL's upper floors.

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