Spoke with the librarys president and ceo anthony mark, about the hoyt of the institution as well as its Current Operations and future. Lets start with numbers. How big is the New York Public Library . How many employees, budget, et cetera . Guest a Public Library combines the largest circulating Branch Library system in america, 88 branches, in every neighborhood in the burroughs, as well as four Important Research libraries, this one being the crown jewel at the center of the system and also the shop berg center in hard harlem. We have 2100 employees, a budget of 280 million a year, operating, about half from the city of new york, largely to pay for the circulating Library System in the neighborhoods. The other half comes from return of a billion dollar en. Com that employs me, a trust, and that we raise somewhere between 80 and 100 municipal a year. Theres also 100 million a year. Theres also somewhere in the vicinity of 40 or 50 million a year of capital improvements, again mostly