york city, booktv visited the new york public library where we spoke with the president and ceo anthony marx about the history of the institution as well as its current operations and futures. >> host: would start with some numbers. how big is the public library and how many employees, etc.? >> guest: it combines the largest circulating bridge system bridge system in america, 88 inches in every neighborhood as well as for important research libraries this one being the crown jewel at the center of the system but also the schaumburg center in harlem and library for performing arts in the business library. there's about 2100 employees and we have a budget of $280 million operating about half comes from the city of new york largely to pay for the circulating library system in new york. the other half comes from the billion-dollar endowment over the private foundation. we raised between 80 and $100 million a year. there's also in the vicinity 40 or $50 million this year of capital improvements and again mostly coming from the city but can also come from private sources. it's an amazing system. a

visited the new york public library where we thought what the library's president and ceo, it anthony marx about the history of the institution as well as its current operations and future. >> host: tony marx, let's start with some numbers. how big is the new york public library? how many employees, budget, et cetera? >> guest: the new york public library circulates the largest in america. 88 branches in every neighborhood diversely serve as well as for important research libraries, this one being the crown jewel at the center of the system, but also the schaumburg center in harlem, library for performing arts at lincoln center and science industry and is this library. we have about 2100 employees. we have a budget of about $280 million a year operating about half comes from the city of new york, largely to pay for the circulating library system in all the neighborhoods. the other half comes from return on the billion dollars endowment of the private foundation that employs me, the lenox aster until contrasts. and then, weaver is somewhere between 80 and $100 million a year. also somewhere