=The Library for the Blind= (No. 116) is on the inner or western side of the corridor leading north from the main entrance. This collection contains about 8,000 books in embossed type for blind readers, and, in addition, 5,500 music scores, also in embossed type. These books are lent not only in Greater New York, but are sent free by mail to blind readers in all parts of the States of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. A teacher employed by the Library goes to homes and institutions in the City of New York to teach adult blind persons to read by touch. The room is open on week days from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. A bronze tablet on the wall bears the following inscription: THE NEW YORK FREE CIRCULATING LIBRARY FOR THE BLIND WAS FOUNDED BY RICHARD RANDALL FERRY * * * * * THROUGH THE EXERTIONS OF CLARA A. WILLIAMS THIS LIBRARY WAS PERMANENTLY ESTABLISHED INCORPORATED, JUNE 3, 1895 TRANSFERRED TO THE N. Y. PUBLIC LIBRARY, FEB. 21, 1903 TRUSTEES WILLIAM B. WAIT CLARA A. WILLIAMS CLARK B. FERRY RICHARD RANDALL FERRY CHARLES W. WESTON The trustees named on the tablet are, of course, those of the former organization: the "New York Free Circulating Library for the Blind." SECOND FLOOR On the second floor a corridor runs along the front of the building, turning into short corridors at the north and south, and also into a central corridor. From these corridors open studies, offices and special reading rooms. In the central corridor, four studies open on the right, while the fifth room on this side is devoted to the: =Oriental Division= (No. 219), with a collection of about 20,000 books and pamphlets in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, and other eastern languages. Open 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. week days. =Jewish Division= (No. 217). Opposite the Oriental Division, on the south side of this central corridor, is the reading room devoted to the Jewish Division. There are about 24,000 books in the collection. =Slavonic Division.= The room devoted to the Slavonic Division (No. 216) is also on the south side of the central corridor. The resources of this Division, books and periodicals in the various Slavonic languages, number about 23,000. [Illustration: REAR OF LIBRARY FROM BRYANT PARK] =Science Division.= On the corridor parallel to Fifth Avenue, and leading north from the main staircase, the room on the right contains the Science Division (No. 225). There are about 35,000 books under the control of this Division. =Economics Division.= From the corridor on the northern or 42nd Street end of the building open the rooms devoted to Public Documents (No. 229) and Economics and Sociology. These were formerly separate divisions, but now united, and the entrance is through Room 229. The resources of the Division (including the large collection of Public Documents) number about 400,000 books and pamphlets.