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  2. Santa Clara City Library - Wikipedia

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    The Northside Branch Library is located at 695 Moreland Way. It is located north of Highway 101 in the Rivermark area of Santa Clara. Santa Clara City Library did not hire a professional librarian until October 1953. Miss Frances Klune was the first hired professional librarian. The old card catalog was replaced in 1992 with a new barcode system.

  3. Houston Public Library - Wikipedia

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    The Houston Public Library system traces its founding to the creation of the second Houston Lyceum in 1854. [2] [3] The lyceum was preceded by a debating society, a special-interest mechanics' lyceum, and a circulating library. The lyceum's library eventually split into a separate institution at the end of the 19th century.

  4. New York Public Library Main Branch - Wikipedia

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    The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (commonly known as the Main Branch, the 42nd Street Library, or just the New York Public Library [b]) is the flagship building in the New York Public Library system in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The branch, one of four research libraries in the library system, contains nine ...

  5. Santa Clara County Library District - Wikipedia

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    By 1932, the Library operated on a budget of $25,000 and had a total of 30 branch libraries. In December 1932, the County Library assumed responsibility for library service to all County schools except those in San Jose, Palo Alto, and Santa Clara City. During the 1950s, Santa Clara County experienced tremendous growth and urbanization.

  6. San Jose Public Library - Wikipedia

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    Built in 2003, King Library is the first joint use library in the United States shared by a major university as its only library and a large city as its main library. It has more than 1.6 million items. The building has nine floors that result in more than 475,000 square feet (44,100 m 2) of space with a capacity for 2 million volumes.

  7. Fresno County Public Library - Wikipedia

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    The Fresno County Public Library was founded in 1910 and housed at that time in the Fresno City Library building, which had been constructed in 1904 with a $30,000 donation from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie's gift was contingent on the City of Fresno taxing itself on a yearly basis to support the library.

  8. Brooklyn Public Library - Wikipedia

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    The Brooklyn Public Library ( BPL) is the public library system of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is the sixteenth largest public library system in the United States by holding and the seventh by number of visitors. [1] Like the two other public library systems in New York City, it is an independent nonprofit organization that is ...

  9. Chicago Public Library - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Public Library (CPL) is the public library system that serves the City of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois.It consists of 81 locations, including a central library, three regional libraries, and branches distributed throughout the city's 77 Community Areas.

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