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  2. Palatine library - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 26 June 2007, at 13:10 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may ...

  3. Palatine, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    www.palatine.il.us. Palatine (/ ˈpælətaɪn /) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is a northwestern residential suburb of Chicago. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 67,908. [4] As of the 2010 Census, it was the seventh-largest community in Cook County [5] and the 18th-largest in Illinois.

  4. Palatine Township, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    17-031-57238. Website. palatinetownship-il .gov. Palatine Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 114,403. [ 2 ] It is the north central township of the six northwest townships that form the Cook County panhandle. Palatine Township was organized in 1850.

  5. Library history - Wikipedia

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    Library history. Library history is a subdiscipline within library science and library and information science focusing on the history of libraries and their role in societies and cultures. [1] Some see the field as a subset of information history. [2] Library history is an academic discipline and should not be confused with its object of study ...

  6. History of libraries - Wikipedia

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    The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents.Topics of interest include accessibility of the collection, acquisition of materials, arrangement and finding tools, the book trade, the influence of the physical properties of the different writing materials, language distribution, role in education, rates of literacy, budgets, staffing, libraries for ...

  7. Bibliotheca Palatina - Wikipedia

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    The Bibliotheca Palatina (" Palatinate library") of Heidelberg was the most important library of the German Renaissance, numbering approximately 5,000 printed books and 3,524 manuscripts. The Bibliotheca was a prominent prize captured during the Thirty Years' War, taken as booty by Maximilian of Bavaria, and given to the Pope in a symbolic and ...

  8. Chicago Public Library - Wikipedia

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    Director. Chris Brown [3] Employees. 958 [4] Website. chipublib.org. 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.

  9. Palatine Anthology - Wikipedia

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    Claudius Salmasius (Claude de Saumaise), 1588–1653. The manuscript of the Palatine Anthology consists of 709 pages. The section of the manuscript which is kept today at the Library of the University of Heidelberg (MS Pal. gr. 23) consists of pages 1–614, and the other part, housed in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, (Par. Suppl. gr. 384) comprises the remaining 94 pages (pp. 615–709).