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| | [http://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Natopian_Literature on MicrasWiki] |
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| | name = Empire Library
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| | jurisdiction = [[Natopia]]
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| | headquarters = [[Lindstrom]]
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| | commissioner = [[King Noah]] ''ex officio as Minister of Information''<br />Library Administrator
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| | functions = National Public Library
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| | subordinates = [[Empire Library Art Museum]], [[Ptia]]
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| Empire Library is one of Natopia's oldest organizations. It contains scholarly research, cartography, genealogy, reference materials, poems, literature, and history. Empire Library administers the [[Empire Library Art Museum]] which is Natopia's national art gallery, and the Island of [[Ptia]], an archaeological site of ancient [[Micron]] culture held in trust for the people of Micras. Empire Library is organizationally part of the [[Chancellor|Imperial Chancellery]], within the [[Natopian Ministry of Information|Ministry of Information]].
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| ==Architecture==
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| [[File:Library2.PNG|240px|thumb|left|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Empire Library's Central Branch in Lindstrom</div>]]Empire Library's main building sits on Lindstrom's coast, overlooking Lindstrom Harbor and [[Borders Bay]]. It is one of Natopia's oldest buildings along with [[Vista de Nada]], the [[Frenzy]], the [[Supreme Court]], and the [[Lindstrom Convention Hall]].
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| [[File:Library.PNG|240px|thumb|left|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Empire Library's Design</div>]]Empire Library is designed as a vaguely leonine building with large domed windows on its 'chest' and 'back' providing natural light to the library's reading rooms. The upper section is a stained glass eye motif, which gazes out over the Bay.
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| ==Catalog==
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| * Songs and Poems
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| * [[The Natopabet Book]]
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| * [[Natopian History|The Revised Complete Concise History of Natopia]]
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| * [[The Opaeied]]
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| * Treatise on Natopia as Rome
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| * Operation Reconquista: Dramatization
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| * Cape Newport Catastrophe: In Their Own Words
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| * [[Waffel-Paine's Dictionary of the Natspeak Language]]
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| * [[The Myth of Natto Auh]]
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| * Waffel-Paine Family Genealogy
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| * All My Mehlville: Episodes 1-4
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| * MONKEY WRENCH
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| * The Jaris War Collection
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