hey, cool!

[electricland]

The library just added a Google Maps widget! You can enter your location and it shows where the nearest branches are. VERY nice.

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[wanderingaengus.livejournal.com]

I need a version of those "Places Visited" maps where I can show all the different Chicago Public Library branches I've been to.

How many TPL branches have you hit?

[electricland.livejournal.com]

In my life ever? Hm. Deer Park, Lillian Smith, the Reference Library, Beaches, Parliament, City Hall, Bloor/Gladstone, and the drop boxes at Main Street, St. Jamestown, and Jones. And I'm sure I went to some really obscure Scarborough branch back in high school to look at some magazines I needed for a project, but I couldn't tell you which one now.

I'm sure there should be more than that, but with the lovely system where they send books to me for the asking, I don't stray far from the usual haunts.

[wanderingaengus.livejournal.com]

I think I posted a version of this list a while back, but, for the hell of it, here's the list of CPL branches, with an asterisk next to those I've visited:

Albany Park Branch
Altgeld Branch
Archer Heights Branch.
Austin Branch
Austin-Irving Branch
Avalon Branch
Back of the Yards Branch
* Beverly Branch
* Bezazian Branch
* Blackstone Branch
Brainerd Branch
Brighton Park Branch
* Bucktown-Wicker Park
Budlong Woods Branch
Canaryville Branch
Chicago Bee Branch
Chicago Lawn Branch
Chinatown Branch
Clearing Branch
Bessie Coleman Branch
Richard J. Daley Branch
Douglass Branch
Eckhart Park Branch
Edgebrook Branch
* Edgewater Branch
Gage Park Branch
Galewood-Mont Clare Branch
Garfield Ridge Branch
Hall Branch
* Harold Washington Library Center (Main Library)
Hegewisch Branch
Humboldt Branch
Independence Branch
Jefferson Park Branch
Jeffery Manor Branch
Kelly Branch
Martin Luther King, Jr. Branch
Legler Branch
* Lincoln Belmont Branch
Lincoln Park Branch
Logan Square Branch
Rudy Lozano Branch
Mabel Manning Branch
Thurgood Marshall Branch
Marshall Square Branch
Mayfair Branch
McKinley Park Branch
* John Merlo Branch
Midwest Branch
Mount Greenwood Branch
* Near North Branch
North Austin Branch
North Pulaski Branch
Northtown Branch
Oriole Park Branch
Portage-Cragin Branch
Pullman Branch
Roden Branch
* Rogers Park Branch
Roosevelt Branch
Scottsdale Branch
Sherman Park Branch
South Chicago Branch
South Shore Branch
* Sulzer Regional
Toman Branch
Tuley Park Branch
* Uptown Branch
Vodak East Side Branch
Walker Branch
West Addison Branch
West Belmont Branch
West Chicago Avenue
West Englewood Branch
West Lawn Branch
West Pullman
* Woodson Regional
Wrightwood-Ashburn Branch
Whitney M. Young, Jr. Branch