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The Most Checked-Out Book Of All Time at the NYPL

The marble lion Patience is one of two lions that flank the entrance to the New York Public Library on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017, in New York.

The classic children's book The Snowy Day is the most checked out book in The New York Public Library’s 125-year history. Anthony Marx, president and CEO of the New York Public Library, and Lynn Lobash, assistant director of readers services at the New York Public Library. talk about what other books top the list, and what going to the library was like in 1895.