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The Champaign Public Library is a library system in Champaign, Illinois.It has two branches: the main library in downtown Champaign and its Douglass branch. With its new location opening on January 6, 2008, the Champaign Public Library almost tripled its square-footage and opened with a collection of almost 285,000 volumes.
Burnham Athenaeum. / 40.11861°N 88.24722°W / 40.11861; -88.24722. The Burnham Athenaeum, also known as the Champaign Public Library, is a historic library building located at 306 W. Church St. in Champaign, Illinois. Built in 1896 through a donation from Albert C. Burnham, the building was Champaign's first permanent library.
Coordinates: 40.1047°N 88.2288°W. The Main Library building on the main campus of the University of Illinois. The University Library at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign comprises a network of physical and digital libraries. It provides resources and services to the university's students, faculty, staff, and the broader academic ...
The Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is located on the 3rd floor of the University Library. The library is one of the largest special collections repositories in the United States. [1] [2] [3] Its collections, consisting of over half a million volumes and three kilometers of manuscript material ...
August 11, 2000. The Main Library is a historic library on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, Illinois. Built in 1924, the library was the third built for the school; it replaced Altgeld Hall, which had become too small for the university's collections. Architect Charles A. Platt designed the Georgian Revival ...
Champaign (/ ˌʃæmˈpeɪn / sham-PAYN) is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 88,302 at the 2020 census. It is the tenth-most populous municipality in Illinois and the fourth most populous city in the state outside the Chicago metropolitan area. [ 3 ] It is a principal city of the Champaign–Urbana ...
U of I (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois, UIUC, or simply Illinois) is a public research-intensive university in the U.S. state of Illinois. A land-grant university, it is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign opened on March 2, 1868, and is the ...
The Urbana Free Library, [39] one of the first public libraries in Illinois, was founded in 1874 and is located in the downtown area. [40] The historic building which houses the library was built in 1918. A major new addition was opened in 2005. The library houses historical archives of Champaign County, which can be used for genealogical research.