In 1927, Margery Quigley became the sixth director of the library. Her book Portrait of a Library , co-authored with William Marcus, the library board president, was revolutionary for changing the concept of public libraries from that of a place for quiet reading to that of a dynamic information center. It drew the attention of Director Hans Burger, who developed a film of the same name in 1940, which was distributed by the Museum of Modern Art and shown throughout the world under the auspices of the U.S. Department of State. In February 1942, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) designed the first ever punch card data processing system for the library, also making the first public library in the United States to have a computerized circulation system.Guy A. Marco, "The American Public Library Handbook", ABC-CLIO, 2011, page 370.John Carlo Bertot, Paul T. Jaeger, Charles R. McClure, Public Libraries and the Internet: Roles, Perspectives, and Implications, Libraries Unlimited, 2010, page 60.
