Systemwide Statistics, June 1995
Fiscal Year 1995 Operating Budget
Operating Expenses:
Operating expenses of The Branch Libraries and Related Central Services and Administration: $101,841,000
Operating expenses of The Research Libraries, Librarywide Programs, and Related Central Services and Administration: $83,262,000
Total operating expenses in Fiscal 1995: $185,103,000
Employees:
- The Branch Libraries and Related Central Services and Administration:
- Salaried employees: 1,726
- Hourly employees: 654
- The Research Libraries, Librarywide programs, and Related Central Services and Administration:
- Salaried employees: 829
- Hourly employees: 366
Total: 3,575
The Research Libraries
Collections: 39,729,724
Of this figure, 12,485,183 are book and book-like materials; the remainder consists of various categories of items, such as audio recordings, films, videotapes, maps, sheet music, prints, and clippings.
- Users in Fiscal 1995:
- Center for the Humanities: 1,266,549
- Library for the Performing Arts: 370,037
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: 55,335
- Library at West 43rd Street: 7,590
Total: 1,699,511
Number of Items Consulted in Fiscal 1995: 3,322,004
Reference Inquiries (telephone): 249,717
- Reader Use
- Business/Professional Users: 29%
- Academic Users: 30%
- Research Libraries Group: 10%
- Other Users: 31%
- Reader Use by Place of Residence
- New York City: 80%
- New York State: 7%
- United States (other than New York City and New York State): 11%
- Foreign Countries: 2%
- Materials Preserved
- Through restoration, preservation, microfilming, and reprint: 116,621
- Other items: 18,613
- Hours of recorded sound media: 699
- Feet of motion picture film: 21,241
- Number of titles of videotape media: 702
- Volumes cleaned: 148,932
The Branch Libraries
Locations:
Eighty-two facilities in the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island, including four central service locations: Donnell Library Center, Mid-Manhattan Library, the Andrew Heiskell Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts-Circulating Collections.
Collections: 11,661,064
Of this figure, 5,449,248 are books; the remainder consists of various categories of nonprint items such as films, videotapes, materials for the blind, orchestral parts, pictures, and audio recordings.
- Users in Fiscal 1995:
- Bronx: 3,294,245
- Manhattan: 3,102,309
- Staten Island: 932,130
- Central Library Units: 3,187,471
Total: 10,516,155
Library Card Holders: 2,140,564
- Branch Libraries Use in Fiscal 1995:
- Reference Inquiries: 5,616,065
- Directional Inquiries: 4,933,929
- Items Circulated: 11,509,390
- Distribution of Free Material: 267,049
- Computer Appointments: 62,792
- Free Programs:
- Adult: 3,384
- Young Adult: 2,933
- Children: 16,014
- Special Services: 3,437
Total: 25,768
- Free Program Attendance:
- Adult: 127,417
- Young Adult: 54,525
- Children: 354,108
- Special Services: 69,485
Total: 605,535
Community Agency Contacts: 3,499
Community Agency Services Profiles: 2,434
Branch Exhibits: 2,447
Materials Reviewed: 12,026
Titles Purchased: 95,303
Copies Purchased: 625,174
Titles Cataloged: 44,409
Items Processed: 462,658
- Volunteer Services:
- Number of Volunteers: 3,785
Number of Volunteer Hours: 23,823
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