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The National Medal for Museum and Library
services is the nation’s highest honor for

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libraries and museums that are serving their
communities in exciting ways.

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Alachua County Library District director Shaney
T. Livingston and community member Lenor Krome

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traveled to Washington to receive the national
medal and spoke to IMLS about how the library

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impacts the community.

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Shainey T Livingston: One thing that I am
very proud of is our tag line is thinking

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outside the book.

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And by doing that it has allowed us to engage
with many agencies in the community and one

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of the things that has really become somewhat
of a national model for our library system

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is what we call the library partnership a
neighborhood resource center.

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And we have 30 different agencies, social
service type agencies that come through that

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organization so a person can go to that particular
location.

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They can receive library services as well
but in addition they can go to the partnership

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side and they can receive many different type
social service agencies.

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We also engage with the University of Florida
and we have what’s called the Mobile outreach

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clinic.

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It’s a rehab bus and its goes to 3 of our
locations and from that unit patrons can actually

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go in and get medical assistance, also when
they are there, the parents can send their

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kids in to the library.

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So that if they are needing to do some things
the children go in to the library they are

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reading books, playing games or whatever.

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And the parents can be engaged with the health
outreach service in doing that.

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We are very heavily into trying to recruit
out teams in the community.

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We are in to gaming the Wii, things like that.

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We have pajama parties for the teens on Friday.

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So we are looking at a lot of different things
that really makes us not necessary on the

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bleeding edge but on the cutting edge to really
engage our community.

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Lenor Krome: You have to realize Archer is
a tiny town, its rural, does not have very

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much money.

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The people who live in the town don’t have
a very big income and so I noticed that a

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lot of people use the library especially for
internet access being able to get to a computer.

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They started out with six computers and then
it has expanded, I don’t know to how many,

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20 computers or so that are available for
the patrons.

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When I first moved to Archer I was pregnant,
and Archer had a book mobile that I would

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be a patron of and then they built a new facility
and it was wonderful.

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I would go with my kids and they would be
teething on the board books or I would be

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finding books to read to them.

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Starting in 3rd grade my children had to start
writing reports for their 3rd grade teacher

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and it was with a library that I could go
and say “I need a book on Amphibians”.

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They are both in college now on the west coast
- oh they’ll go in and use the computer,

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because I don’t have a computer at home
or very often they will go “Hey I need to

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read some Hemmingway and they will go in and
you know I better assigned him and they will

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get the books they had been assigned.

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So it’s always been a great resource for
us.

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Shainey T Livingston: And it’s little simple
things, I mean even with our local Sheriff

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department you know they do their patrolling
at night and we were asked by the Sheriff

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there “Would it be okay if the deputies
park in our parking lot at night to be able

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to have access to the computer”.

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Well great, why not?

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You know it provides security for us as well
when we are closed.

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So it’s just those little things any opportunity
that you know you find as a partnership has

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to go for it.

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You know it’s just a win, win for everybody
involved.
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