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]

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 (377 are hourly)

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

thoerenz: pro: 01-31-01