The New York Public Library is an ambitious place where immigrants and children seek knowledge, information and spiritual comfort. Calvin Terry, a writer, said that the New York Public Library is "the most equal place among new york's great cultural institutions, with no tickets and no membership cards; It is also the most advanced place, and anyone who enters or leaves the library can feel that they have the same qualifications as Harvard students. " In front of the information desk of the library, volunteers show the way to an endless stream of visitors, and people keep flowing all day. The main reading room of the library is one of the largest columnless reading rooms in the world today. At the beginning of the design, John Shawn Billings, the first curator, asked the reading room to be located on the top floor, so that natural light could be used and road noise could be avoided. Today, some rooms in the library still maintain the pattern of opening. Readers still use the heavy wooden tables and lamps designed by Fanni. The comprehensive reading room has become the home of many American historians and writers. Fermat Ken Burns used a large number of precious photos collected in the library in the process of compiling his historical masterpiece "American Civil War". It was here that Anabel and Dewitt Wallace first published Reader's Digest, which later became the largest publication in the world. Terry, a writer, came to look for information about Nauru, a small Pacific island country. At first, he didn't expect to find it, but he was shocked to find 70 pieces of information about this small country, including its constitution.