<P> As of 2016, the New York Public Library consisted of four research centers and 88 neighborhood branch libraries in the three boroughs served . All libraries in the NYPL system may be used free of charge by all visitors . As of 2010, the research collections contain 44,507,623 items (books, videotapes, maps, etc .). The Branch Libraries contain 8,438,775 items . Together the collections total nearly 53 million items, a number surpassed only by the Library of Congress and the British Library . </P> <P> Taken as a whole, the three library systems in the city have 209 branches with 63 million items in their collections . </P> <P> Telephone Reference, known as ASK NYPL, answers 100,000 questions per year, by phone and online, as well as in The New York Times . </P> <P> The Library website provides access to the library's catalogs, online collections and subscription databases . It also has information about the library's free events, exhibitions, computer classes and English as a Second Language (ESL) classes . The two online catalogs, LEO (which searches the circulating collections) and CATNYP (which searches the research collections) allow users to search the library's holdings of books, journals and other materials . The LEO system allows cardholders to request books from any branch and have them delivered to any branch . </P>

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