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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 and

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exceptional ways now to read a public
library director Paul Palladino and

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community member jamie Fulbright
traveled to Washington from not a rita

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colorado to receive the national medal
and spoke to IMLS about how the library

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impacts the community our community in
nat arena is very small there's 546

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people very very small and most people
come to the library for internet

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purposes job searching it's the
gathering place for the community it's

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situated right centrally in town and
across the street from the elementary

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school the post office and the grocery
store so people come into town to do all

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of their business and connect with the
library as well when we were looking for

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sites proximity to to the center of town
was important we actually purchased an

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old auto parts store and with the intent
of using it but turned out that we had

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to scrape the site and build the
building entirely from scratch the old

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library was less than 500 square feet
the new libraries 4400 it has a meeting

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room they had one computer before they
have six for the public now it's used

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constantly I mean this is an area that
has twenty percent of the people don't

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have phone service of any kind so of
course they don't have you know more

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don't have internet access this is their
only access to the outside world my job

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at the library I'm a youth services
librarian so I actually do the program

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for the literacy for little ones it's
that the early literacy for small

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children age
zero through five we focus on reading

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writing playing and we really have this
great method it's called pyramid method

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we keep our friends safe ourselves safe
and our things safe I really like the

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children's programming because when my
kids are there they don't even they

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don't realize they're learning they're
just having fun Jamie's early literacy

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program really it's designed on a
national program every child ready to

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read that came out of the American
Library Association a number of years

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ago we use stories we use literature to
teach concepts such as writing letter

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recognition and color recognition and
studies keep showing that it's very

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important that children from birth to
age three is when their brains are

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really the most receptive and they're
they're the most formative so part a big

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part of the program and a big part of
what Jamie does is she teaches the

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parents how to interact with their kids
and how to teach their kids so parents

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can then go home and work with their
kids throughout the week I feel it's

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very important to involve children and
parents in the program it's kind of

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reinforcing so the kids don't forget
what they've learned and it's just

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reinforcing it throughout the week so
that they come back with oh this is what

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we did last week and we're going to
transition into this this week and

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having the parents back that is just
amazing we do a wonderful summer reading

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program and throughout the year the
older kids have programming to during

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the week because we don't have school on
Fridays

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because the school district couldn't
afford it so we kind of stepped up and

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provided programming on Fridays for
children to get the extra education

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Friday programming is geared for ages
2nd grade through 8th grade and we do

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gear towards reading math science any
anywhere that we see in the school that

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they need extra help were there to put
it in the library does play a huge part

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in our community that's our circulation
of books has went up two hundred and six

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percent we've issued 800 new library
cards and that's more people than we

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have in our community so people from
outside of our area are coming to our

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library as well libraries like other
public institutions are suffering for

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resources but we're we're managing to
grow and to put money into creative and

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finding niches to fill and focusing all
of our efforts on on what works and what

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improves the lives of our customers and
they come back and they support us