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[[File:2006 Salt Lake City Public Library exterior.jpg|thumb|right|The Main Branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library system]]
The '''Salt Lake City Public Library system''' is a network of [[public library|public libraries]] funded by [[Salt Lake City, Utah| Salt Lake City]]. The Free Public Library of Salt Lake City first opened on February 14, 1898. The system is under the direction of a library board and circulates more than three million items each year.
 
There are six locations: the [[Salt Lake City Public Library| Main Branch]] library [[downtown (Salt Lake City)|downtown]], the Anderson-Foothill Branch, the Chapman Branch in [[Glendale (Salt Lake City)|Glendale]], the Day-Riverside Branch in [[Rose Park (Salt Lake City)|Rose Park]], the Sprague Branch in [[Sugar House (Salt Lake City)|Sugar House]], and the Corrine & Jack Sweet Branch in [[the Avenues (Salt Lake City)|the Avenues]].
 
==Territorial years==
[[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] oversaw many of the libraries in early Salt Lake City and the rest of the [[Utah Territory]], founded in 1850.<ref name=libhistory>{{cite web|url=http://www.slcpl.lib.ut.us/details.jsp?parent_id=2&page_id=293|title=History of The City Library|dateyear=2003|publisher=Salt Lake City Public Library|accessdate=March 18, 2010}}</ref> While many locals tried to promote public lending libraries, private libraries were the most prosperous in early Salt Lake. For many years private libraries were the only ones accessible to the people of the city.<ref name="nrhpnom">{{cite web|url=http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/79002505.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Salt Lake City Public Library|author=John S. H. Smith|date=August 7, 1979|publisher=National Park Service}}{{cite web|url=http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Photos/79002505.pdf |title=Accompanying 4 photos, from 1979.|work=National Register of Historic Places Inventory}}</ref>
 
Over these territorial years several groups attempted to establish a free public library, including a small group of women called the Ladies Library Association and a [[Masonic Order]] in the city. By 1891, the two organizations had acquired a stock of over 10,000 books, but lack of funding forced the two to donate their collections to the newly formed Pioneer Library Association.<ref name=libhistory/> By 1898, another group of women called the Ladies Literary Society had successfully promoted a bill in the territorial legislature giving a levy on [[property tax]] to public libraries in the state.<ref name=nrhpnom/> Because of this law, the Free Public Library of Salt Lake City, the city's first government-run free public library, opened on February 14, 1898. Its temporary location was on the top floor of the [[Salt Lake City and County Building]], and the collection consisted mainly of a stockpile of 11,910 books donated by the Pioneer Library Association.<ref name=libhistory/> The Pioneer Library Association also provided a librarian for the new library, Annie E. Chapman, for whom the current Chapman branch is now named.
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