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| x San Francisco Public Library |
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San Francisco Public Library | Anza Branch Library | 5,436,916 |
The San Francisco Public Library is a public library system serving the city of San Francisco. Its main library is located in San Francisco's Civic Center, on Larkin Street at Grove.
The first public library of San Francisco officially opened in...
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| x National Library of Korea |
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6,192,631 |
The National Library of Korea is located in Seoul, South Korea and was established in 1945. It houses over 6.5 million volumes, including over 844,000 foreign books and some of the National Treasures of South Korea.
It was relocated within Seoul,...
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| x Burnaby Public Library |
Burnaby Public Library or BPL is a public library that serves Burnaby, British Columbia and the surrounding Lower Mainland.
Burnaby's first library was founded in 1927 as the North Burnaby Library Association. In 1954, a municipal bylaw was enacted...
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| x Detroit Public Library |
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Detroit Public Library | 7,191,553 |
The Detroit Public Library (DPL) is the largest library system in Michigan. It is composed of a Main Library on Woodward Avenue, which houses DPL administration offices, and twenty-three branch locations across the city. The Main Library is part of...
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| x Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County |
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Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County | 4,566,728 |
The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County (PLCH) is among the largest and busiest public library systems in the world. In addition to its Main Library location in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, PLCH operates 41 regional and branch locations...
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| x New York Public Library |
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New York Public Library | 20,017,441 |
The New York Public Library (NYPL) is one of the leading public libraries of the world and is one of the United States's most significant research libraries. It is composed of a very large circulating public library system combined with a very large...
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| x Hemet Public Library | Hemet Public Library | 82,743 |
The Hemet Public Library is a public library in Hemet, California, which opened in July 2003. The library is one of the newest libraries in Riverside County, California.
The Hemet Public Library (HPL) can trace its history back to 1906 when members...
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| x Vancouver Public Library |
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Vancouver Central Library | Vancouver Central Library | 2,670,000 |
Funded by the City of Vancouver, the Vancouver Public Library is the third largest public library system in Canada, with over 395,000 cardholders and more than 8 million item borrowings annually. The central branch opened in Downtown Vancouver on...
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| x Parliamentary Library of Ukraine |
The National Parliamentary Library of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Національна парламентська бібліотека України, translit.: Natsionalna parlaments`ka biblioteka Ukrainy) is one of the national libraries of Ukraine, one of the largest libraries of the country...
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| x Winnipeg Public Library |
The Winnipeg Public Library is a public library service that is provided by the municipality of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
The library has branches in 20 locations in Winnipeg:
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| x County of Los Angeles Public Library |
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County of Los Angeles Public Library | 8,930,798 |
The County of Los Angeles Public Library system serves residents living in 51 of the 88 incorporated cities of Los Angeles County, California. United States and those living in unincorporated areas resulting in a service area extending over 3,000...
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| x San Diego Public Library | San Diego Public Library | 4,930,234 |
The San Diego Public Library is a public library system serving the city of San Diego, California.
The San Diego Public Library was established on May 19, 1882, by an elected board of library trustees. The first location was rented space in the...
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| x Escondido Public Library |
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Escondido Public Library | 308,291 |
The Escondido Public Library is a public library system serving the city of Escondido, which is situated in San Diego County, California. The collection of the library contains 371,500 volumes, circulates 930,000 items per year and serves a...
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| x Coquitlam Public Library |
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Coquitlam Public Library is a public library that serves Coquitlam, British Columbia and the 2008 annual budget was $4,199,977. The library was part of the Centennial School Library in 1969. A public Library Board was established in 1977 and the...
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| x Kitchener Public Library |
The Kitchener Public Library (KPL) is the public library system for the city of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. It has a main branch in the downtown core, and four smaller branches throughout the wider community.
History The first institution committed...
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| x Surrey Public Library |
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Surrey Public Library is a municipal public library system serving Surrey, British Columbia and the surrounding Lower Mainland.
According to the 2008 Annual Report, there are over 305,000 registered borrowers, and over 2.6 million people visited...
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| x San Diego County Library |
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San Diego County Library | 1,571,637 |
The San Diego County Library is a public library system serving San Diego County in the U.S. state of California. Any person living in the state is eligible for a free library card. During the 2007 - 2008 fiscal year, the library circulated over 8...
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| x Los Angeles Public Library |
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Los Angeles Public Library | Encino–Tarzana Branch Library | 5,769,000 |
The Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) system serves the residents of Los Angeles, California, United States. With over 6 million volumes, LAPL is one of the largest publicly funded library systems in the world. The system is overseen by a Board of...
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| x Thunder Bay Public Library |
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The Thunder Bay Public Library serves the citizens of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada and surrounding areas.
The library got its start when the Port Arthur Library opened a Mechanics' Institute in the schoolhouse in 1876. Membership fees were $20.00...
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| x Fairfax County Public Library |
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Fairfax County Public Library | Burke Centre Library | 2,646,098 |
The Fairfax County Public Library (FCPL) is a public library system headquartered in Suite 324 in the Fairfax County Government Center at 12000 Government Center Parkway in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The system, serving...
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| Centreville Regional Library | |||||
| Chantilly Regional Library | |||||
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| x Lincoln City Libraries |
Lincoln City Libraries is the official public library system in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. There are eight total branches.
The main location is Bennett Martin Public Library in Lincoln's downtown area, which includes three floors and a basement....
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| x North York Central Library |
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North York Central Library is located in northern Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the intersection of Yonge Street and Empress Avenue, north of Sheppard Avenue. The library is located on the west side of Yonge Street beside Mel Lastman Square in the...
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| x Minuteman Library Network |
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The Minuteman Library Network, founded in 1984, is an organization of 41 public and academic libraries in eastern Massachusetts (not including Boston, that immediate area is served by the Boston Public Library, sometimes considered one of the most...
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| x Connemara Public Library |
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Connemara Public Library at Chennai is one of the four National Depository libraries which receive a copy of all books, newspapers and periodicals published in India. Established in 1890 the library is a repository of centuries-old publications,...
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| x Hawaii State Library |
The Hawaiʻi State Library is a historic building in the City & County of Honolulu that serves as the seat of the Hawaiʻi State Public Library System, the only statewide library system and one of the largest in the United States. The Hawaiʻi State...
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| x Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County |
The Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County serves the communities of Mahoning County, Ohio from its administrative offices in Youngstown, Ohio with 15 branches in the cities of Campbell, Canfield, Greenford, Lake Milton, North Jackson,...
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| x Sycamore Public Library |
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Sycamore Public Library | 50,502 |
The Sycamore Public Library, in Sycamore, Illinois, was erected in 1905 in the former location of Mansion House, Sycamore's oldest structure. Construction began in May of that year and the library officially opened to the public on Thanksgiving Day,...
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| x Riverside Public Library | Riverside Public Library | 488,265 |
Riverside Public Library is located in Riverside, California.
On 9 July 1888, the Riverside City Board of Trustees assumed responsibility for the book collection of the Riverside Library Association, which had formed 15 July 1879, and appointed a...
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| x Newark Public Library |
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Newark Public Library | 1,580,549 |
The Newark Public Library is the public library system for the city of Newark, New Jersey.
The Main Library is in the midst of a large-scale expansion and renovation project. The project has been split into three phases, the first of which has...
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| x Boston Public Library |
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Boston Public Library | 8,413,483 |
The Boston Public Library is a municipal public library system in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was the first publicly supported municipal library in the United States, the first large library open to the public in the United States, and...
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| x Uxbridge Free Public Library | Uxbridge Free Public Library | 39,997 |
The Uxbridge Free Public Library is a public library in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.
The first library in the town of Uxbridge was the Uxbridge Social and Instructive Library (1775-1812), managed by George Southwick at his store in the Quaker City...
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| x Saint Louis Public Library |
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Saint Louis Public Library | 2,815,376 |
The St. Louis Public Library, located at 1301 Olive Street, serves residents and visitors to the City of St. Louis, Missouri. St. Louis Public Library is unrelated to St. Louis County Library, except that they have borrowing agreements. St. Louis...
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| x Twinsburg Public Library |
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Twinsburg Public Library | 134,985 |
The Twinsburg Public Library is located in Twinsburg, a community located northeast Summit County, Ohio, roughly halfway between Akron and Cleveland. It began as the Samuel Bissell Memorial Library in 1910 but its name was changed in 1931 to comply...
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| x Mississauga Library System |
The Mississauga Library System (MLS) services Mississauga, Ontario with 17 branch libraries plus the Central Library, which has five floors of material.
The Central Library is the biggest and main library of the Missauga Library System. The Central...
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| x London Public Library |
The London Public Library is the public library system of London, Ontario Canada. London Public Library opened in November, 1896.
It now has 16 branches open to the public. The branches are named Beacock, Byron, Carson, Central, Cherryhill, Crouch,...
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| x Denver Public Library |
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Denver Public Library | 2,010,968 |
The Denver Public Library is the public library of the city of Denver, Colorado in the United States. As of 2004, the library had 2,519,977 items in its collection, and a library card base of 417,616 local residents. In addition to its Central...
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| x Albany Town Library |
Albany Town Library is a public library in Albany, Orleans County, Vermont. It is located at 1031 Main St. in Albany, Vermont (mailing address: PO Box 512, Albany, VT 05820-0512).
According to 2000 Census figures as reported by the Vermont...
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| x Saint John Free Public Library |
The Saint John Free Public Library, incorporated in 1883, is the first tax supported public library in Canada, hence the inclusion of “Free” in the title.
Three locations comprise the Saint John Free Public Library, with the central branch in the...
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| x Hong Kong Public Library |
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Hong Kong Central Library |
The Hong Kong Public Library (HKPL) system in Hong Kong consists of 66 static and 10 mobile libraries offering a total collection of 12.1 million items. The network of libraries are interconnected by a digitalised library management system, the...
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| x Yiu Tung Public Library |
Yiu Tung Public Library (耀東公立圖書館) is a public library, located in Shau Kei Wan, Hong Kong.
Facilities:
Services:
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| x Osceola County Library System |
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Osceola County Library System | 308,468 |
The Osceola Library System is a public library system located in the Kissimmee, Florida area of Central Florida. The main branch is the Hart Memorial Central Library in historic downtown Kissimmee. The system itself has four large branch locations...
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| x Brooklyn Public Library |
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Brooklyn Public Library | 4,489,647 |
The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) is the public library system of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. It is the fifth largest public library system in the United States. It is not a New York City government agency; it is an independent...
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| x Clark County Public Library | Clark County Public Library | 406,007 |
Clark County Public Library is the public library of Clark County, Ohio, United States. It is based in Springfield, Ohio and has a collection of approximately 500,000 items.
The Clark County Public Library traces its beginnings to the Springfield...
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| x Alaska State Library |
The Alaska State Library and Historical Collections is located in Juneau, Alaska, with an office in Anchorage featuring the Talking Book Center.
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| x Manchester Central Library |
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Manchester Central Library is a circular library next to the extended Town Hall in Manchester, England. It acts as the headquarters of the Manchester Library & Information Service, which also consists of 22 other community libraries.
The design was...
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| x Orange County Public Library | Orange County Public Library | Aliso Viejo Public Library | 2,674,191 |
The OC Public Libraries (OCPL) is a network of community libraries in Orange County, California. With 34 branches covering the county from the Pacific Coast to the inland canyons of Southern California, OC Public Libraries serves a diverse...
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| x Minneapolis Public Library |
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Minneapolis Public Library | 2,974,086 |
The Minneapolis Public Library and Information Center (MPL) was a library system serving the residents of Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States. It was founded as the Minneapolis Athenæum in 1860. The library at the time of its merger with...
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| x North Bengal State Library |
North Bengal State Library is the largest library in the North Bengal region which is situated in the Cooch Behar city.
North Bengal State Library is a pride of Cooch Behar. This Library has so many valuable manuscripts and Classic "Punthis" written...
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| x Ohio Wesleyan University Library |
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The Ohio Wesleyan University Library is the library system of Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. It comprises five individual libraries and is the second largest academic library in Ohio among liberal arts colleges, ranked by number of...
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| x Chetham's Library |
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Chetham's Library in Manchester, England is the oldest free public reference library in the United Kingdom. Chetham's Hospital, which contains both the library and Chetham's School of Music, was established in 1653 under the will of Humphrey Chetham...
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| x Noel Wien Public Library |
The Noel Wien Public Library, operated by the Fairbanks North Star Borough, is located in Fairbanks, Alaska. It has a branch library in North Pole, Alaska. Its current director is Greg Hill, who also writes a regular column for the Fairbanks Daily...
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| x Phoenix Public Library | Phoenix Public Library | 1,810,067 |
The Phoenix Public Library is a municipal library system serving Phoenix, Arizona, and operated by the City of Phoenix. There are 15 branches currently in operation citywide, anchored by the flagship Burton Barr Central Library on the northern edge...
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| x Emma S. Clark Memorial Library |
Emma S. Clark Memorial Library
Public access library located in Setauket (11733), Long Island. Its name comes from the niece of a millionaire confectioner, philanthropist, and Setauket resident Thomas Hodgkins. The library was constructed in 1892,...
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| x Paris Carnegie Public Library |
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Paris Carnegie Public Library | 33,612 |
The Paris Carnegie Public Library was opened to the public on June 24, 1904. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places and is still home to the Paris Public Library in Paris, Illinois, located in Edgar County.
The 1904...
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| x Huntington Beach Public Library |
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The Huntington Beach Public Library and Cultural Center (HBPL) is located in Huntington Beach, California. This medium-sized public library offers free wireless access, online databases, books, children's programs, computers, DVD movies, CD music...
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| x MIT Science Fiction Society |
The MIT Science Fiction Society (or MITSFS) is a literary society and library of science fiction and fantasy books and magazines, located at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It claims to have the "world's largest open-shelf collection of...
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| x Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library |
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The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (MLKML) is the central facility of the District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL). Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the 400,000 square foot (37,000 m²) steel, brick, and glass structure, and it is a rare...
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| x Hong Kong Central Library |
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Hong Kong Central Library is the main library of Hong Kong. It is located at the intersection of Moreton Terrace and Causeway Road in Causeway Bay.
Facing the Victoria Harbour, the 12-storey high building resides in a gross area of 9,400 sq. metres...
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| x Biblioteca Argentina Dr. Juan Álvarez |
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The Biblioteca Argentina Dr. Juan Álvarez is a public library in Rosario, Argentina. It is the more important library in the city and in the province of Santa Fe.
The library houses 186,000 books. It has three floors and includes a reading room for...
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| x Portsmouth Public Library |
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Portsmouth Public Library | 170,373 |
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The Portsmouth Public Library is a public library located near downtown Portsmouth, Ohio, United States. It has served the city since 1879. The library has five branch locations in Scioto County: Lucasville, New Boston, McDermott, South Webster,...
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