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  2. Kansas City Public Library - Wikipedia

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    The Kansas City Public Library is a public system headquartered in the Central Library in Kansas City, Missouri . The system operates its Central Library and neighborhood branches located in Kansas City, Independence, and Sugar Creek. Founded on December 5, 1873, [3] it is the oldest and third largest public library system in the Kansas City ...

  3. New York Public Library - Wikipedia

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    The New York Public Library ( NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second-largest public library in the United States behind the Library of Congress and the fourth-largest public library in the world. [5] It is a private, non-governmental ...

  4. Salt Lake City Public Library - Wikipedia

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    The Salt Lake City Public Library was originally housed in the Salt Lake City and County Building in 1898. Thanks to a donation of land and money by a John Quackenbos Packard in 1900, a new library was built in downtown Salt Lake City; the building is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1]

  5. Public library - Wikipedia

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    Norwich City library was established in 1608 (six years after Thomas Bodley founded the Bodleian Library, which was open to the "whole republic of the learned") and Chetham's Library in Manchester, which claims to be the oldest public library in the English-speaking world, opened in 1653.

  6. 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.

  7. Seattle Public Library - Wikipedia

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    The Seattle Public Library ( SPL) is the public library system serving the city of Seattle, Washington. Efforts to start a Seattle library had commenced as early as 1868, with the system eventually being established by the city in 1890. The system currently comprises 27 branches, most of which are named after the neighborhoods in which they are ...

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