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The '''New York Public Library''' has about six million volumes,<ref>American Library Association Fact Sheet 22, [http://www.ala.org/ala/alalibrary/libraryfactsheet/alalibraryfactsheet22.htm The Nation's Largest Libraries]</ref> making it the 2nd largest public library in the United States.<ref name="alalibraryfactsheet13">http://www.ala.org/tools/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet13 Retrieved September 28, 2016</ref>  In 2012, it served a legal population of 3,439,711, and had total expenditures of $7.00 per capita (a total of $24,078,205).<ref name="alalibraryfactsheet13">http://www.ala.org/tools/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet13 Retrieved September 28, 2016</ref> Its massive structure on [[Fifth Avenue]] is one of the landmarks of [[Manhattan]].   

The '''New York Public Library''' has about six million volumes,<ref>American Library Association Fact Sheet 22, [http://www.ala.org/ala/alalibrary/libraryfactsheet/alalibraryfactsheet22.htm The Nation's Largest Libraries]</ref> making it the 2nd largest public library in the United States.<ref name="alalibraryfactsheet13">http://www.ala.org/tools/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet13 Retrieved September 28, 2016</ref>  In 2012, it served a legal population of 3,439,711, and had total expenditures of $7.00 per capita (a total of $24,078,205).<ref name="alalibraryfactsheet13"/> Its massive structure on [[Fifth Avenue]] is one of the landmarks of [[Manhattan]].   

It is one of the world's major research libraries.

It is one of the world's major research libraries.