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Mission
The New York Public Library
is one of the cornerstones of the American tradition of equal opportunity. It
provides free and open access to the accumulated wisdom of the world, without
distinction as to income, religion, nationality, or other human condition. It
is everyone's university; the scholar's and author's haven; the statesman's,
scientist's, and businessman's essential resource; the nation's memory. It
guarantees freedom of information and independence of thought. It enables each
individual to pursue learning at his/her own personal level of interest,
preparation, ability, and desire. It helps ensure the free trade in ideas and
the right of dissent. The mission of The New York
Public Library is to use its available resources in a balanced program of
collecting, cataloging, and conserving books and other materials, and providing
ready access directly to individual library users and to users elsewhere
through cooperating libraries and library networks. The New York Public
Library's responsibility is to serve as a great storehouse of knowledge at the
heart of one of the world's information centers, and to function as an integral
part of a fabric of information and learning that stretches across the nation
and the world.
The New York Public Library
Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
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thoerenz: pro: 4-13-98
revised: 10-15-01
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