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Mentions the nearly four-year-old child, Robert Clark Bailey, who was the first patron at the renovated Great Kills Branch of the New York Public Library on Staten Island. Indication that Bailey's great-grandmother, Florence Ripley, was the first librarian; History of the Great Kills Branch; The cost of renovation.

Focuses on the 113th Street public library branch near Columbia University in New York City, and the patrons and librarians there. Description of the library and patrons; Comments on how little money librarians make in New York City; The importance of libraries in society; Plans to move the library to a bigger space; Comments from librarians.