new york city has three public library systems, the new york public library, serving manhattan, the bronx, and staten island; the brooklyn public library, serving brooklyn; and the queens borough public library, serving queens. the new york public library comprises simultaneously a set of scholarly research collections and a network of community libraries and is the busiest public library system in the world. over 15.5 million patrons checked out books, periodicals, and other materials from the library's 82 branches in the 2004–2005 fiscal year. the library has four major research centers. the largest is the library for the humanities, which ranks in importance with the library of congress, the british library, and the bibliothèque nationale de france. it has 39 million items in its collection, among them a gutenberg bible, the first five folios of shakespeare's plays, ancient torah scrolls, a handwritten copy of george washington's farewell address and alexander hamilton's handwritten draft of the united states constitution. it also has a large map room and a significant art collection.