Library Book Shortage

During a time when Library resources are being strained by funding cuts and an increased demand for our services, Friends like you help keep our collections strong. Your gift to The New York Public Library is helping us overcome our budget shortfalls to provide books, DVDs, CDs and more—the pathways to knowledge and inspiration that our entire city depends on.

And thanks to the generosity of Library supporter and Trustee Tim Barakett and his wife, Michele, your donation was tripled, allowing us to surpass our goal!

Thank you for supporting the 2011 Friends Spring Book Fund Campaign.

Book Fund Progress
Progress:   126%
Raised: $188,677
Goal: $150,000
Total Books: 9,930
Stephanie Aaron
Bradley Abrams
Joan Abruzzo
Richard Adelman
Michael Aiuvalasit
Roslyn Allison
Margo Amgott
Simran Anand
David Andersson
Wilma Aponte
Cecilia Arana
Ted Ashley
Hilarie Ashton
Harriet Baer
Anant Bakre
David Balderston
Michael Banta
Jaclyn Barcewski
Lauren Barnes
Caryl Hudson Baron
Barbara Barry
Marilyn Barton
Shanny Basar
Terry Bayorek
Joel Beard
Richard Beck
Elizabeth Benedict
Riva Bennett
Karen Bennett
Mimi Berman-Sandler
Susan Bernofsky
Kimberly Berry
Arlene Bessenoff
Doug Beub
Brenda Bishop
Carolyn Blackburn
J. Bonnet
Kathryn Bordonaro
Alfred Borrelli
Virginia Bowman
Tracy Brady
Charles Breakstone
Jasmine Breiding
Lise Brenner
Karen Brenner
Ilana Breslau
Robert Brietenbach
Natalie Brody
Robert Browning
Peter Brueggen
Jerome Bruner
Benay Bubar
Francis Burger
William Burgess
Christian Busch
Craig Butler
Barbara Byrne
Rosemary Calderon
Louis Cancelmi
Edward Carey
Catherine Carr
Ellen Cash
Daniel Chall
Lori Chalom
J. Chavooshian
Maneswar Cheemalapati
Jung Chun
Frances Cohen
Sandra Coleman
Katherine Culkin
Kevin Curley
Jerry Danzig
Robert Davenport
Mary Davidson
Emily Davidson
Kenneth Davis
Catherine Davis
Alfonso Dazio
Noel De La Rosa
Bryant Deborah
Peter DeFabritus
Millie Diaz
Theresa Dickson
Parker Douglas
Jill Du Boff
Len Dubenko
Odette Duggan
James Dwyer
Erica Eastman
Sandy Eckstein
Hendrik Edelman
Keith Eisenstark
David Emero
Kathleen Emery
Robert Ewing
Emily Farrell
Joan Feigenbaum
Laura Feldman
Faulkner Felicity
Gretchen Feltes
Helen Ferrante
Ellen Fertig
Suchitra Fields
Harmon Fields
Elise L. Fischer
Sylvie Fitzpatrick
Brian Fix
Kathleen Flynn
Julie Flynn
Wendell Foster
Thomas Foster
Frederick Freyer
Sonya Friedman
Linda Friedman
Jenny Fu
Arlene Gaeta
Zelda Gale
Peter Galluci
Naomi Beth Gans
Abigail Garnett
Nancy Garzon
Janette Gautier
Alexandra Geis
Karen Gens
Anina Gerchick
Jane Giberga
Elizabeth Gil
Marina Givotovsky
Frances Glick
Moishe Goldberg
Jennie Goldstone
Helida Gomez
Mithat Gonen
Margaret Goodman
Dennis Graham
Leonard Greenberg
Joan Greenfield
Linda Greengrass
Foster Grimm
Deborah Grossblatt
Joyce Guide
Patricia Hackbarth
Marilyn Hacker
Roberta Haim
Dorothy Hall
Carol Halliburton
Susan Hambleton
Charles Hampton
Kimberly Harano
Gordon Hargraves
Nancy Harris
Laura Harris
Cari Hauck
Amy Heinrich
Jenny Heinz
Andrew Heinze
Ellis Helen
Nancy Heller
Phyllis Herschberg
Ethan Hessney
Linda Hetzer
Terry Hildebrandt
Susan Hill
Nicholas Hinkel
Janice Hirota
Marga Hirsch
Eduardo Ho
Mark Hochberg
Christine Hoffman
Sara Holliday
Rita Houlihan
Ellene Hu
Ray Hubener
Autumn Hurst
Carole Hyman
Mona-Louise Hyre
Dan Icolari
Sharon Ing
Brannon Ingram
Lucia Inniss
Coyne Jaclyn
Claire Jaffe
Christine James
Marilyn Janow
Hans Jensen
Vera Jiji
Waite John
Kyle Jones
Sacha Jones
Cassondra Joseph
Rita Jules
Norman Kahn
Margaret Kain
Laura Kalil
Carrie Kancilia
Karen Kaplan
Edith Kaplan
Helen Karlan
Deborah Karp
Steven Karten
Martin Kathleen
Daniels Kathryn
Madhu Katta
Phyllis Katz
Merle Kaufman
George Kaufman
Pauline Kehm
Rona Kellman
Martha Kelly
Caleb Kelly
Jane Kendall
David Kern
Roy Kevin
Siridatar Khalsa
Jonathan Khuner
Mi Kim
Owen King
Mary Kirsch
Merwin Kliman
Alan Koenig
Ellen Kolegar
Elisabeth Konovalova
May Kosaka
Michele Kucker
Julie Lam
Mary Lam
Amy Lam
Amy Lamberti
Tanya Leach
Tina Lee
Judy Lewis
Barton Lewis
Ephraim Lewis
Bernard Lieberman
Primrose Linda
Andrey Lipavsky
Dan Litt
Susan Littwin
Galen Lockwood
Edward Lovera
Ricki Lubov
Carole Ludwig
Jodi Lustig
Timothy Lynch
Sean Lyon
Wendy Madden
Jennifer Mahlman
Sandra Mainolfi
Arlene Malave-Vazquez
Carey Maloney
Robert Maloney
Stephen Manzi
Peter March
Joan Margiotta
Catherine Martyn
Tracie Masek
Judy Maxwell
Kathleen McAuley
Katie McCarthy
David McCarthy
Nyree McCray
Gail McDaniel
Mark McDougle
Theresa Mcgrady
Ron McHugh
Gwendolyn McIver
Neil McKelvie
Cathleen McLoughlin
Erin McNaughton
Ruth Meehan
Tri Melati
Faisal Memon
Joan Mendlinger
Peter Merner
Cynthia Mersmann
Jo Ann Messina
Claude Meyer
Ethan Middlebrooks
Frances Milberg
Susan Miller
Peggy Millstone
Lisa Minsky-Primus
Lauree Wolin Mitchell
Esther Modell
Paula Mohs
Stuart Money
Mary Monroe
Mary Montalvo
Marjorie Morton
Yi-Chen Mu
Eileen Mullen
June Muller
Dona Munker
Kathleen Murnion
Ellen Nedell
Judith Nichols
Julia O'Brien
Niels Oesingmann
Benjamin Oldenburg
Chris Gordon Owen
Marvin Parker
Lois Peck
Josephine Piccoli
Patricia Pineda
Christopher Plasencia
Sue Plastrik
Eli Pompili
Robert Poulson
Sheldon Price
Lisa Proto
Gerald Rabl
Dolores Rasalas
Roslyn Raskin
Mary Ratcliffe
Gretchen Rector
Ameenah Reed
Jerry Reich
Alexander Reichl
Katherine Reynolds
Allen Richard
Nathan Riddle
Melanie Ried
John Rizzuto
Mee-Lise Robinson
Jean Rogers
Chava Rose
John Rosenfelder
Joan Rothschild
Lisa Roulston
Matthew Rovery
Irina Rozentsveyg
Marc Rubenstein
Vivek Rudrapatna
David Ryan
Laura Ryner
Amber Sabat
Maria Sajon
Harry Saltzman
Belan Sanchez
Derek Santangelo
Naomi Sarna
Donatella Saroli
Joshua Sauberman
Julie Saul
Shirley Saxton
Said Sayrafiezadeh
Andrew Schonebaum
Denise Schulman
Sasha Schulman
Joachim Schwabe
Sharon Schwartz
Frederick Schweitzer
Barbara Seiger
Tina Sernick
Jane Sheffield
Monroe Sheppard
Richard Sher
Edna Sherber
Debra Sherman
Kenneth Shih
Mary Shore
Amy Shulman
Brian Shumon
Carolyn Sieven
Jeremy Silverman
Daniel Sklar
Eric Smith
Joseph Smith
Pamela Smith
Fannie Sobel
Zaida Soler-Williams
Jeanne Solomon
Gillian Sowell
Erika Spelman
Fredrica Sprayregen
Leslie Sprout
Christina Stahl
Kathleen L. Steed
Sylvia Stein
Ruth Steinberg
Lucia Stern
Kristina Stillman
Iris Lee Stoler
Judith Stoloff
John Storey
Andrea Sturm
James Sudbrock
Jinjae Sul
Debra Sule
Amy Sweigert
Wendy Szymanski
Yoichi Takahashi
Robin Tallant
Susannah Tamarkin
Salvatore Terillo
Deborah Thomas
Rita Tick
Eliza Tom
Camille Tomao
David Uozumi
Katie Uva
Katherine Uyterlinde
Aracelis Valentin
Stephanie Vardavas
Kenneth Waldmann
Helge Wasmuth
Judith Weinraub
Vera Weintraub
Hilary Weissman
Renee Weitzner
Kathleen Wentrack
Kristen Wesolowski
Mary Wikler
Lin Wilda
Vanessa Willett
Sheila Williams
Jeanne Willis
Natasha Wimmer
Eve Winer
David Winn
Lucia Winston
Elizabeth Wisker
Sidney Wolf
Anne Wolfson
Charles Osgood Wood
Latasha Wright
John Cotton Wright
Colin Young
Hua Zheng