The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts isn’t your typical library, although I do go there to read and take advantage of their WiFI and, um, use their very clean restrooms.

Anyway, this library is home to one of the world’s most exhaustive collections of circulating, reference, and rare archival materials in the performing arts field. It also houses a large volume of non-book collections. Materials such as videotapes, sheet music, stage designs, rare films, posters and photographers can be found among its stacks and archive rooms.

It always gives me goosebumps when I think about how much knowledge, talent, and wisdom are concentrated among these stacks.