City, booktv visited the New York Public Library where we thought what the librarys president and ceo, it anthony marx about the history of the institution as well as its Current Operations and future. Host tony marx, lets start with some numbers. How big is the New York Public Library . How many employees, budget, et cetera . Guest the New York Public Library circulates the largest in america. 88 branches in every neighborhood diversely serve as well as for Important Research libraries, this one being the crown jewel at the center of the system, but also the Schaumburg Center in harlem, library for performing arts at Lincoln Center and science industry and is this library. We have about 2100 employees. We have a budget of about 280 million a year operating about half comes from the city of new york, largely to pay for the circulating Library System in all the neighborhoods. The other half comes from return on the billion dollars endowment of the private foundation that employs me, the