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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 schaller north hills library
director sharon mcrae and community

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member janet miller traveled to
Washington from glenshaw Pennsylvania to

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receive the National Medal and spoke to
IMLS about how the library impacts the

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community the shower north hills library
is owned and operated by Chandler

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Township and we opened in September of
1942 two rooms three thousand volumes

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three editions later we're now at 24,000
square feet and 130,000 items well some

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of the programs that the library
provides I want to always start back

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because I think of the the very youngest
the moms coming in with infants for a

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story time and for interaction through
many of the toddler programs but then it

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goes on straight through the book clubs
that they have and anybody can be part

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of these book clubs the art shows that
are provided so you can get the walk

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into that and enjoy art on on the walls
you can get a book you can be part of a

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book club you can rent your DVDs there's
a program every day morning noon and

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evenings usually to fulfill just about
any need of a member of that community

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the community built the library and so
it should reflect who they are and how

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they're changing and they the community
has called upon us to provide these

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venues of change we had a local artist
who said boy there's not a lot of places

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that we can go to show our work and so
we created an art gallery we do an art

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show we connect folks in their creative
side with art inspiration and so it is

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more than books issues that are met by
this

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library can range anywhere from the
early literacy which this library is

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extremely involved in through issues of
tax assessment and the social security

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issues and that they provide programming
and lawyers and all types of personnel

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that come into this library that any
question that you have can be answered

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we're out in the community quite a bit
asking people what do you want to see

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you the library or if they come in and
they they say we're having trouble with

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our assessment we want to appeal our
property assessment how can you help us

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and so because we provide online access
and we have a close relationship with

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the township manager and some various
partners they were able to help people

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kind of create a plan to appeal their
assessments and so we were a big part of

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that piece you want to know anything you
want to get anything you got to come to

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the schaller north hills library early
literacy programs are are at the core of

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what we do that birth through 5 age we
know through studies and you hear all

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sorts of research that those are the
times where the kids they're just like

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sponges and so we provide a variety like
a package of programs for them so we

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have the story times but we also have
kid aerobics or we have little artists

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where they can create things or there's
a dance program and they learn to shake

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rattle and roll with various instruments
and we also have counting sheep which is

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a math concept program for little kids
and we also have our Discovery Kids

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program which is a science program for
them the library is a family place

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library which is a national designation
we were trained in New York to to serve

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directly these little kids but their
caregivers as well their parents and so

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at the core of that program is
the parent-child workshop can you bring

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in toys for the appropriate age levels
and you also bring in community experts

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maybe on nutrition or on movement or on
health issues so that the parents can

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talk to these folks while their kids are
engaged in in imagination play or they

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dress up or they play with the kitchen
or various things and so we've really

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taken that program to heart and have
expanded it with those other programs

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that we provide the role we play in the
future of our community is ever-changing

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and we would expect that the community
would dictate to us how the library is

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going to change and the schaller north
hills library is that hub for for our

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community and so that's where our role
is and our role is to provide

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information and resources but in a human
way that connects each other