Volume 20, Number 7 · May 3, 1973
The Library Murder Case
By Ellen Moers
The New York Public Library: A History of its Founding and Early Years
by Phyllis Dain
New York Public Library, 466 pp., $15.00
Annual Report 1971/72, The New York Public Library
Office of Public Information, New York Public Library, 32 pp.
The New York Public Library is one of the four greatest research libraries in the world, the newest and the most threatened. Founded three quarters of a century ago as a private institution, NYPL has long performed the kind of public service for American scholars that government libraries do in Paris and London. For its collections are so nearly complete, its rarities so unusual, its catalogue so superb that scholars everywhere in America (and many from abroad) know they can turn to NYPL as a final and secure resort when hunting an edition, a pamphlet, a folio that can be found nowhere else.
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