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48-41464 [ 6] GNIS feature ID. 1339633 [ 7] Website. laredotexas.gov. Laredo ( / ləˈreɪdoʊ / lə-RAY-doh; Spanish: [laˈɾeðo]) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and seat of Webb County, on the north bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, across from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Laredo College (LC) is a public community college in Laredo, Texas. Founded as Laredo Junior College in 1947, it is part of the Laredo Independent School District . As defined by the Texas Legislature , the official service area of LC includes the municipality of Laredo and all of Webb, Jim Hogg and Zapata counties.
The city of Laredo is situated in the U.S. state of Texas on the northern bank of the Rio Grande and Nuevo Laredo is located in the Mexican State of Tamaulipas in the southern bank of the river. This area is also known as the Two Laredos or the Laredo Borderplex. The area is made up of one county in the U.S ( Webb County in Texas) and three ...
The Loudoun County Public Library system was established in 1973. In the beginning, the only libraries in the system were the Purcellville branch, the Purcellville bookmobile and the Sterling branch. The next year, the Thomas Balch Library, located in Leesburg, Virginia, would join the system. Other branches would join over the years, the most ...
The Los Angeles Public Library system ( LAPL) is a public library system in Los Angeles, California. The system holds more than six million volumes, [ 3] and with around 19 million residents in the Greater Los Angeles area, it serves the largest metropolitan population of any public library system in the United States. [ 4]
Library and information science. A public library is a library, most often a lending library, that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians and library paraprofessionals, who are also civil servants .
The El Paso Public Library is the longest continuously active public library system in Texas. [2] It was founded by Mary Irene Stanton, an El Paso area teacher. [3] Stanton "single-handedly becomes founder of the El Paso Public Library" when in 1894, she donated her personal collection of 1,000 books for a boy's Reading Club which was housed in a room in the Sheldon Building. [4]
The Fullerton Public Library ( FPL ), is a public library system that serves the City of Fullerton, California and its surrounding communities. The Library holds more than 200,000 volumes and serves a population of ca. 142,000. FPL is overseen by a Library Board of trustees with five members appointed by the City Council.