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The result was Merge to Arlington Heights, Illinois. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-02-18 08:16Z

Arlington Heights Memorial Library (AHML)[edit]

NN local library branch _SUBWAYguy 18:20, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

merge to Arlington Heights, Illinois Chris 03:04, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The library has had a book written about its history, http://www.amazon.com/This-Bookish-Inclination-Arlington-1887-1987/dp/0961783001/sr=1-1/qid=1168621089/ref=sr_1_1/002-8612428-4876056?ie=UTF8&s=books The library was founded in 1887, so it as more than a century of history. --Eastmain 01:00, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL Addhoc 13:40, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep based on above searches. Addhoc 13:41, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, Avi 19:26, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

delete The publisher of the books is: Friends of the Arlington Heights Memorial Lib. In other words, it's self published. It may have been intended for more serious purposes than the typical vanity press book, but that's all it is. I like libraries, notable and non-notable; this one is among the non notableDGG 07:33, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - Seems to be a good public library (long may they prosper!) but not encyclopedically notable. -- BPMullins | Talk 14:45, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and merge into Arlington Heights, although only about 10 percent of this short article is even worth merging. No claim to notability is given, and the book clearly isn't enough. The book should provide some good information for a section in the Arlington Heights article: Year started, some landmarks in the history of its growth, number of books or other material, the large number of library card holders (and percentage), perhaps even size of buildings and branches in square feet, and especially anything else unusual that sets it apart from other libraries. It could make a fine section. An article on a library would show something unique or very rare and valuable about it.Noroton 17:52, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, nothing notable about this library, for example, it is not on the National Register of Historic Places ([[List_of_Registered_Historic_Places_in_Cook_County,_Illinois#Arlington_Heights|our list). --Dhartung | Talk 23:44, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge as above, to the extent feasible. The self-published source doesn't qualify under WP:RS, ergo not under WP:N either. I wouldn't just delete it outright, under long precedent that effort should be made to merge things like local libraries and schools into articles on the larger systems/towns to which they belong. The other books results appear to be in-passing, not in-depth, and the "news" results are either local or in librarian specialty publications, and don't seem to support a claim of notability either in general or in the field of librarianism, being also in-passing and not detailed information about the library per se. The fact that the library board had a meeting recorded in a local paper helps establish that the library exists, but lots of things exist that don't need articles. :-) — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 20:50, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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