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NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

The New York Public Library is a Historic landmark, it is mainly a research library. This library is private, and depends solely on donations. The library recognizes these donaters by engraving their name throughout the library, because if them others are able to benefit from its extensive,…….

Dr. John Shaw Billings sketched a plan for the new building on a postcard. He went to France and saw how a small library had the stacks built under the library.

One room of the library is the De Witt Wallace Periodicals Room. This room like many has a story behind it. Originally this was just called the periodicals room and at that time Mr. & Mrs. Wallace came frequently to look at the magazines and developed their ideas. Soon after organizing their ideas and gathering all the information they needed they started the “ Readers Digest”. The roots of this magazine originated in our very own New York Public Library.

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