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    A public library is a library, most often a lending library, that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such...
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    location: users of a public library have different needs from those of a special library or academic library, for example. Libraries may also be community...
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    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...
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    McAllen Public Library, or MPL, is the public library system serving McAllen, Texas, United States. McAllen Public Library (MPL) serves the community of...
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    Angeles Public Library (LAPL) is a public library system in Los Angeles, California, operating separate from the Los Angeles County Public Library system...
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    Bloomingdale Regional Library was originally designed to lessen patron usage at the Brandon Regional Library, which was the busiest library in the Hillsborough...
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    The Brooklyn Public Library is the public library system of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is the sixteenth largest public library system in the...
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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...
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    Vancouver Public Library (VPL) is the public library system for the city of Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2023, VPL had more than 4.6 million visits...
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    The Boston Public Library (BPL) is a municipal public library system in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1848. The Boston Public Library is also Massachusetts'...
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    Toronto Public Library (TPL) is a public library system in Toronto, Ontario. It is the largest public library system in Canada, and in 2023 had averaged...
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    Stockholm Public Library (Swedish: Stockholms stadsbibliotek or Stadsbiblioteket) is a library building in Stockholm, Sweden, designed by Swedish architect...
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    The Phoenix Public Library is a municipal library system serving Phoenix, Arizona, and operated by the city of Phoenix. There are 16 branches currently...
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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...
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    The San Francisco Public Library is the public library system of the city and county of San Francisco in United States. The Main Library is located at Civic...
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  • The Edmonton Public Library (EPL) is a public library system in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Library cards are free to all Edmontonians; as...
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    modern public library system in Britain is the Public Libraries Act 1850. The act first gave local boroughs the power to establish free public libraries and...
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    The Connemara Public Library at Egmore in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, is one of the four National Depository Libraries which receive a copy of all books...
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  • The Calgary Public Library (CPL) is a distributed library system featuring 22 branch locations including the Central Library. As of 2012, it is the second...
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    The Library of Birmingham is a public library in Birmingham, England. It is situated on the west side of the city centre at Centenary Square, beside the...
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    The Queens Public Library (QPL), also known as the Queens Borough Public Library and Queens Library (QL), is the public library for the borough of Queens...
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    The La Porte Public Library (predecessor, La Porte Library and Natural History Association) was established in 1896. It is located at 904 Indiana Avenue...
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    The Cleveland Public Library is a public library system in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded in 1869, it had a circulation of 3.5 million items in 2020. It operates...
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    Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008. "2006 Ohio Public Library Statistics". State Library of Ohio. Archived from the original on May 19, 2008. Retrieved...
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    69528 The Ottawa Public Library (OPL; French: Bibliothèque publique d'Ottawa) is the library system of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The library was founded in...
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    Public library advocacy is support given to a public library for its financial and philosophical goals or needs. Most often this takes the form of monetary...
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    Denver Public Library is the public library system of the City and County of Denver, Colorado. The system includes the Denver Central Library, located...
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  • Mid-Continent Public Library, officially known as Consolidated Library District #3, is a public library system serving Clay, Jackson, and Platte Counties...
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    A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is generally funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians...
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  • The burning of the Jaffna Public Library (Tamil: யாழ் பொது நூலகம் எரிப்பு, Yāḻ potu nūlakam erippu; Sinhala: යාපනය මහජන පුස්තකාලය ගිනිබත් කිරීම, Yāpanaya...
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