My Pantone Color Swatch Library is Missing from Illustrator

I've searched the computer for this PMS color swatch library... can't find it. How do I get it back? I NEED IT asap! Ahhh! Please help?

This isn't really about color management. To reach the largest group
of people who might be able to help, try the Illustrator forum
(Windows or Mac). Be sure to say what version, and if you can remember
what changed between this last working and now that might help too.
Aandi Inston

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    I can then place the gradient on the Black layer.
    Again, forget Layers corresponding to ink separations. A total misconception. Utterly unnecessary.
    The problem is that I'm familiar with off-set printing, and apparently gradients have to be converted into halftones when screen printing, so I'm trying to figure out the best way of creating shadows and highlights.
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    This does not mean that you cannot do shaded artwork without halftoning. (In fact, much of the most stunning screen-printed work is done entirely as line art.)  Designer fully acquainted with the limitations of screen printing commonly employ artwork shading techniques to avoid the need for halftoning altogether. They use hatching or stippling or contour linework to build "shading" into the artwork, and all inks are printed as line art. In this regard, preparing artwork for screen printing is often more "creatively rewarding" because you first, understand the real-world limitations of the reproduction method and, second, devise clever and original artwork methods to work within those limitations.
    But it's not something anyone can give you a step-by-step, one-size-fits-all-situations crash course in, in an online forum.
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