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Plano is part of the North Texas Municipal Water District, headquartered in Wylie, Texas. Lake Lavon is the district's principal source of raw water. Plano's water distribution system includes: 10 elevated towers; 12 ground storage tanks; 54.5 million-gallon water storage capacity; 5 pump stations; 225 million-gallon daily pumping capacity
Plano Public Library System. "Genealogy". City of Plano. (Includes information relevant to city history) "United States - Texas - Collin County - Plano". Portal to Texas History. Denton: University of North Texas Libraries. "Historical Maps of Texas Cities: Plano". Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection. University of Texas at Austin. "Plano".
Historic Downtown Plano. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-7902-3 "J.H. Rasor Passes Away". Star-Courier. 1925-11-05. Archived from the original on 2013-02-24 "John Henry Rasor, 1880". Plano Public Library System; Plano, Texas: The Early Years. Friends of the Plano Public Library System. 1 January 1986.
The Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the largest library in the United States and second-largest library in the world with over 167 million holdings, including 39 million books and other printed recordings, 14.8 million photographs, 5.5 million maps, 8.1 million pieces of sheet music, and 72 million manuscripts
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Boston Public Library: A Centennial History (Harvard University Press, 1956) Wiegand, Wayne A. Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876–1956 (University of Iowa Press, 2011) Wiegand, Wayne A. A Part of Our Lives: A History of the American Public Library (Oxford University press, 2015).
The public library system there is named the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. [ 46 ] In the late 1940s, the Carnegie Corporation of New York arranged for microfilming of the correspondence files relating to Andrew Carnegie's gifts and grants to communities for the public libraries and church organs.
The culmination of centuries of advances in the printing press, moveable type, paper, ink, publishing, and distribution, combined with an ever-growing information-oriented middle class, increased commercial activity and consumption, new radical ideas, massive population growth and higher literacy rates forged the public library into the form that it is today.