The Central Building:	PAGE
Exterior	7
Sculpture	13
The rear of the Building	15

FIRST FLOOR

Entrances	17
Elevators	19
Exhibition Room	19
Current Periodicals Room	19
Business Offices	21
Technology Division	21
Patents Room	22
The Library for the Blind	22

SECOND FLOOR

Oriental Division	23
Jewish Division	23
Slavonic Division	23
Science Division	25
Economics Division	25
Business Offices	25

THIRD FLOOR

Public Catalogue Room	27
Information Desk	31
Application for Books	31
The Main Reading Room	31
The Library's Books	33
Use of Books	39
Stack	39
Genealogy Room	39
American History Division	39
Reserve Books	41
Prints Room	43
Art and Architecture	43
Map Room	45
Stuart Gallery	45
General Gallery	45
Prints Gallery	45
Manuscript Division	46
Music Division	47

BASEMENT

Newspaper Room	47
Central Circulation Branch	49
Children's Room	51
Library School	51
Public Telephones	53
Business Offices	53
Travelling Libraries Office	53

Circulation Department (branches):
Circulation of Books	55
Special Collections	57
Interbranch Loan	57
Reading Rooms	57
Library for the Blind	59
Travelling Libraries	59
Work with Children	61
Lectures and Meetings	62

Historical Sketch of the Library:
The Astor Library	63
The Lenox Library	67
The Tilden Trust	67
Consolidation	69
New York Free Circulating Library	71
Other Circulating Libraries	71
Carnegie Branches	71
Management	71
Benefactors	72
Work of the Library	73

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Floor Plans, Central Building	74
Trustees and Officers of the Library	76
Directory of Branch Libraries	77
Publications of the Library	78
The Croton Reservoir	79

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