The New York Public Library Research Catalog has 8,742,283 items and 678,495 collections for use at one of four NYPL research libraries in New York City.
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- At the Library 6,599,815
- Online 2,032,792
Types of materials we have
- Book 7,229,867
- Journal/Periodical 451,608
- Map 184,640
- Archive/Manuscript 28,665
- Music recording 97,246
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- Music score 96,103
- Video 84,393
- Sound recording 5,661
- Database 2,046
- Dataset 1,162
- Object 245
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- History 1,086,851
- United States 696,684
- Biography 600,522
- Fiction 544,205
- Government publications 317,065
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- Periodicals 305,329
- Criticism, interpretation, etc. 279,879
- Twentieth century 266,445
- Politics and government 259,108
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