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the national medal for Museum and
Library Services is the nation's highest

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honor for libraries and museums that are
serving their communities in exceptional

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ways Contra Costa Community Library
director Barbara L Flynn and Community

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member glattus leaks traveled to
Washington from Pleasant Hill California

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to receive the national medal and spoke
to imls about how the library impacts

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the community well Contra custa County
Library is contra custa County

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California which is across from San
Francisco it means the other side so

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we're the other side from San Francisco
we have 26 libraries in 18 cities in a

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th000 square
miles we serve everyone from babies in

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the labp uh to the eldest senior citizen
uh with a variety of programs which uh

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does include books but it's not limited
to books uh it's books it's DVDs CD

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books on tape electronic books we like
to say and I truly believe that the

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library is at the heart of the
community project second chance is our

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literacy program for adults uh it gives
uh people a second chance at life at

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learning how to read and spell and enjoy
all the wonderful things that books have

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to offer first visits to the library was
taking by grandchildren and checking out

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books and bringing them back where they
could read

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brought him to the library because I
grew up not knowing how to read and

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spell and wanted to make sure that they
took every opportunity every everything

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that I could give them that they would
learn and know how to read and spell

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growing up I lost 104 PBS from Weight
Watchers desire was to work for Weight

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Watchers and so to work for Weight
Watchers one of the requirements was to

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read I had to learn the program I had to
read about the program

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and they uh told me they didn't know if
I would be able to work for Weight

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Watchers because they had never ran into
anyone who couldn't read my oldest son

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who was a doctor uh told me to check out
a program that was that um he just said

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he just gave me where the program was it
was at the library and I told him no I

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had been through programs all my life
all from a child I was in um special ed

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every kind of program there was adult
educational programs and it would always

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lead back to the same I would go no
further than what I was so um really it

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was to kind of close his mouth because
he wasn't giving up I went to this

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program
and I don't know what is Karen Karen um

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what is her what is her she's well she's
a tutor trainer the tutor who was

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excellent and I sat down and she had me
to read but the main thing that I

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learned from the beginning was as
everybody all my life had always told me

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sound it out sound it out
um and so when the um Karen the um the

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instructor said sound this out and that
was the first time I asked her what is a

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sound I didn't know what a sound was I
didn't know that letters had

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sounds and so when that came about I
started getting training to learn the

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sounds sounds had was would spell
words I don't think people know that

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these programs are at the library I had
heard um years years ago that the

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library had a program that would train
um that would teach you how to read the

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first thought went into my mind these
were retired people who had nothing else

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to do and decided they wanted to come in
and help maybe help teach somebody how

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to read without the skills so my thought
was no but now these tutors that they

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have now they're skilled um it's a
volunteer program we uh train volunteers

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to be tutors and uh do everything we can
to meet our individual students needs to

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teach them to uh read and spell project
second chance opened the door that open

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open a whir of
reading that open another

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life I don't think you
realize most people don't realize if you

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can't
read you don't function