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Malta was founded in 1855, under the name of Milton. Shortly afterwards, the name was changed to Etna, then Malta after the Galena Railway station that served the village. The present name is after the island of Malta. [3] Malta was the site of the first "seedling mile" of concrete pavement for the transcontinental Lincoln Highway in 1914 ...
The Morton Grove Public Library (MGPL) is a public library that serves residents and businesses of the village of Morton Grove, Illinois. Morton Grove is located 12 miles (19 km) north of downtown Chicago. The library is located at 6140 Lincoln Avenue, Morton Grove, IL 60053 and serves a population of 23,270 residents. [1]
The village hosted the groundbreaking at the site of the new library on June 15, 2021. [17] The existing library permanently closed on March 8, 2023, in preparation for an April 2023 grand opening at the new site. [18] [19] [20] The new library was opened to the public on April 22, 2023. [21]
The Library is chartered by the New York State Education Department Board of Regents to serve the village of Round Lake and the town of Malta. Although the Round Lake Library is housed in cozy quarters, it is prepared to meet the needs of its residents and patrons in the twenty-first century.
Malta Township is one of nineteen townships in DeKalb County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,557 and it contained 631 housing units. [ 2 ] Malta Township was originally formed as Etna Township from a portion of DeKalb Township in September, 1856; it was renamed to Malta Township in December 1858.
By 1891, Miss Gale had organized the books by subject (history, travel, poetry and fiction) and by alphabetical order within their subject. To raise money for more books at the library, Miss Gale sold copies of the book catalog for $.15 a piece. [15] In 1899, the library had 14,866 books in their collection, 1,070 of them children's books. [16]
The Schaumburg Township District Library (STDL), [2] located in Schaumburg, Illinois, is the second largest public library in Illinois. [3] It serves the Schaumburg Township area, covering sections of Schaumburg, Hoffman Estates, Hanover Park, Roselle, and Elk Grove Village. Both Hoffman Estates and Hanover Park have branch libraries located in ...
The National Library of Malta (Maltese: Bibljoteka Nazzjonali ta' Malta), often known as the Bibliotheca (Maltese: Bibljoteka), is a reference library in Republic Square, Valletta, Malta. It was founded by Grand Master Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc in 1776 out of the collections of the knight Louis Guérin de Tencin.