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ladies and gentlemen thank you for
joining us for the 2012 National medal

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for Museum and Library service awards
ceremony today we recognize the

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extraordinary work of 10 outstanding
museums and libraries from across the

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nation and celebrate the valuable role
these institutions and all museums and

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libraries play in our communities we're
very proud to have members of the

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National Museum and Library Services
board with us today uh they are all

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sitting together and I'll just mention
them and where they're from we're very

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uh We've seated just eight new members
today and we're very proud of them and

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our board members here include Charles
Benton from Illinois Julia Bland

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Louisiana Christy brandow Iowa Bert
crass Castro Arizona John Copa Florida

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Paula Gap
Michigan uh Louis Herrera California

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Eric Jolly Minnesota Susanna torea Laval
New York Mary minnow California Tina

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oraal Washington Lawrence pjo Alabama
Winston tab Maryland Suzanne Thoren New

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York and Bob wedworth from Illinois so
thank you all for joining us today I

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also would like to um acknowledge the
members of Congress who are here today

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and we're very happy to have Congressman
Jason altm from Pennsylvania thank you

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so much for
coming and

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also we are very happy to have Mrs
Tipton uh and and representing her

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husband Scott Tipton from Colorado so
I'm sure you have a wonderful first name

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Mrs

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Tipton I just wanted to talk a little
bit about the role our board members

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play in this process they bring passion
and Leadership to The Institute of

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Museum and Library services and they
help strengthen the educational and

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cultural life of our country they also
lend their expertise to the National

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medal selection process by their careful
review of nominations and sharing

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insightful recommendations so thank you
very much for our current board members

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and the new ones you have a big task
ahead of you and we're looking forward

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to your advice thank you very much um so
each of you here today you play a very

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important part in promoting the
tremendous value of museums and

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libraries to our
these institutions are Community anchors

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that offer lifechanging learning
experiences they have long contributed

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to our country and they are responding
to the needs of 21st century Learners

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with creativity and vitality I'd also
like to acknowledge that our museums and

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libraries uh in our neighbors to the
north who were hit with a desperate uh

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Storm from Sandy have really been doing
a great job in terms of bringing those

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communities together providing light
power uh and just a place to come

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together in need so we really would like
to acknowledge uh our friends that were

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hurt by Sandy but are really making a
difference uh in the lives and

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restoration of some peace and Sanity up
there the libraries and museums we honor

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Today show us what is possible they are
places that are using their physical and

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digital spaces their Collections and
their dedicated staffs to make a real

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difference in community life the
national medal for Museum and Library

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service is the highest National Honor
conferred on museums and libraries and

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to sum up why this year's honores have
earned this award I believe First Lady

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Michelle Obama Put It Best in a message
to our recipients Mrs Obama wrote

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congratulations to the winners of the
national medal for Museum and Library

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service this year's recipients share a
common commitment to Excellence the

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spirit of innovative thinking and the
determination to serve their home

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communities by pushing the boundaries of
what's possible and embracing new ideas

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and approaches these Award winners have
challenged the conventional Notions of

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what a library or Museum can and should
be congratulations again I wish you all

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the best and I certainly join Mrs Obama
in her sentiments and add my sincere

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congratulations to our medal winners it
is my tremendous honor to introduce our

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guest of honor Cecilia Munoz director of
the domestic policy Council prior to

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this role Cecilia served as Deputy
assistant to the president and director

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of intergovernmental Affairs where she
oversaw the Obama administration's

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relationship with state and local
governments before joining the Obama

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Administration she served as senior vice
president for the office of research

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advocacy and legislation at the National
Council of lza the nation's largest

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Latino civil rights organization she
supervised policy staff covering a iety

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of issues of importance to Latinos
including civil rights employment

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poverty Farm worker issues Education
Health housing and immigration her

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particular area of expertise is
immigration policy which she covered at

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the council for 20 years please join me
in welcoming Cecilia

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[Applause]
Munoz welcome to the White House

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everybody um I'm so excited to be here
with all of you um and I guess it's

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fitting That We Gather in this space
this is known as the Indian treaty room

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um I don't think there were any actual
treaties signed here um but it's a

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fitting space because it served as a
library um and it while it is you know

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elaborate and pretty snazzy it occurred
to me as I was watching the video that

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it doesn't begin to serve as the kind of
community Hub uh as the places that

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we're honoring today um and as somebody
who is the daughter of immigrants uh

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grew up in one of those wonderful big
messy extended immigr

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families um I am just extremely grateful
for the role that the kinds of

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Institutions you represent play in
making us one nation in connecting

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people in connecting communities uh in
connecting people to ideas it is an

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extraordinary contribution that you make
um and just as a personal matter I'm

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very grateful for it so that's one of
many reasons I'm excited to be here

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today to welcome you and congratulate
you all um all across the country

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institutions like the ones we're
honoring today are opening up young eyes

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to Passion understanding and
opportunity um our nation's

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123,000 libraries and
17,500 museums help level the playing

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field you break down Geographic language
economic or physical barriers that make

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it difficult for people to get the
information that they need and to get

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connected to each other you serve as
beacons of knowledge and Community

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Development in the cities and towns
where you reside uh and nearly every

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Community across the country has a
library or Museum to call their own and

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with robust online networks and
dedicated staff and volunteers that keep

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them moving forward these museums and
libraries connect people to ideas and

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very importantly to one another um but I
should say and you all know that these

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are also times of real challenge for
libraries and museums across the country

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economic strains are causing reductions
and budgets that support the great work

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that you do um and you're not immune to
the tough e economic conditions that all

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of us as as a nation have been enduring
and at the same time for in some ways

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for the very same reason public demand
for libraries and museums continues to

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be strong communities are looking to
libraries and museums as full Partners

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in education Workforce Development
adoption of new technologies integration

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of immigrants we really need you um and
you're not only filling the Gap you're

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helping communities imagine new ways to
leverage your assets and support of core

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Citizen Services and really to do more
with less fulfilling a really special

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Civic educational and Cultural Mission
without museums and libraries it would

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be more difficult maybe impossible for
many people to pursue their education

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seek employment and lead the kind of
lives they Envision for themselves and

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we all have so much rioting on their
ability to do that you all are

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fundamental institutions in our
communities um you support really some

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of the the fundamental values of our
democracy the tools which make our

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democracy possible and should say that
the institute for Museum and library of

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science plays a unique role and I just
would like to take a second to commend

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Susan on her remarkable leadership of
the organization we're living at a time

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when strategic use of resources could
not be more important and imls is role

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to provide leadership funding data
research has been essential in helping

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libraries and museums navigate change
and evolve their services and you know

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perhaps better than anybody we are
living in a moment of extraordinary

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change
um so this is an incredibly important

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service and over the past several years
imls has worked across governmental

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agencies to encourage collaboration on a
host of goals including using libraries

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museums as centers for Workforce
Development the advancement of

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highquality learning experience for our
youngest Americans and the adoption of

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broadband technology in ever more
communities so across the country

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creative libraries and museums are
helping people strengthen communities

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and bringing people together for a
better future and the connections that

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you all are making uh to new ideas
connecting people to each other fortify

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the Civic and educational fabric of the
nation um I'm it really gives me great

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pride to be here today to celebrate all
of you and especially to thank you for

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what you do I should say that uh I have
a daughter a high daughter who's getting

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ready to go to college and the thing she
wants to do uh and to prepare for is to

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work in a museum and we have lots of
conversations around the dinner table

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you could do the wave for that right we
have lots of dinner table T

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conversations about how the things that
we're reading the things that we that

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that she's interested in that connect us
to our own history um how important they

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are to what drives us forward in the
future and so I look forward to going

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home today and telling her that I got a
chance to be here with all of you and

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celebrate the the work that you do
couldn't be more important really so

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congratulations but especially thank
you so I am now very honored to

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introduce today's MC C NPR senior
National correspondent Linda worth

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Heimer we're very excited and honored
for Linda to join us this year she has

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been with NPR since the Network's
Inception her award-winning coverage has

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captured pivotal moments in history and
she has achieved many firsts including

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being the first person to broadcast live
from inside the United States Senate

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chamber as well as being the first woman
to Anchor network coverage of a

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presidential nomination convention and
of election night Linda has served as a

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senior National correspondent since 2002
she previously spent 13 years hosting

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NPR's news magazine All Things
Considered ladies and Gentlemen please

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welcome this year's MC Linda worth
Heimer good afternoon it's a great

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pleasure for me to uh have a small part
in the ceremony to bestow this

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prestigious award on the nation's best
libraries and museums I'm a big fan of

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libraries I remember with great
affection and respect the public library

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of carlbad New Mexico where I grew up my
favorite memory of the library is the

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day my friend Mary and I found some
odd-looking bugs that nobody knew what

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they were on my mother's roses so we we
put a few of them in a peanut butter jar

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hopped on our bicycles and went to the
library to ask the librarian Mrs Milton

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what they were and like Mrs Milton Mrs
Helen Milton didn't even BL Link at bugs

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coming into the library uh and she also
didn't answer the question like the good

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library in that she was she pointed she
introduced us to a new word entomology

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and she pointed us at books and she said
uh she said once you think you know what

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it is then these there are other books
that have big plates of pictures so you

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can identify your creature and it didn't
even take very long for us to do it we

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identified the little insect is
something that would shortly develop

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into a
ladybug so we felt it was good for the

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roses and uh we were glad to we had not
destroyed them all um I've remembered

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that day for 60 years at least because
um because Mrs Milton made me feel so

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smart and so powerful to have all of the
library at my disposal now

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I am going to uh to read the names of
the institutions and the leaders of

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those institutions and each Medal winner
has brought with them someone on whom

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their institution has had a positive
impact um I will read the names of the

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honores and I will and the
representatives who will accept the

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award and include a little bit about
each of these community members when we

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call your names please come forward to
accept the national medal for Museum and

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Library service from director Susan
hrth booill youth Museum of Malden

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Missouri pany ruin as the executive
director and she comes with Community

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member Lauren Collins as a little girl
Lauren was a frequent visitor to the

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booill youth Museum and then she signed
up to volunteer to fill part of her

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curriculum at Southeast Missouri State
University and she has maintained this

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connection over the years now she
embodies the spirit Spirit of

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volunteerism that makes communi strong
she is amazing with kids and at the

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Museum she's found a place where those
skills could be developed according to

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the director she is the face of the

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museum the cont Costa County Library of
Pleasant Hill California the director is

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Barbara Flynn and Mary pipo chairman of
the board comes as well and the

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Community member is gladus Lee
glattus never stops learning never gives

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up she is a leader former business owner
Storyteller World traveler at age 67 she

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learned to read through contracosta
County Library's adult literacy program

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which is called project second chance
she said of the program all the facets

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of my life have been enhanced by the
growth of my reading skills I no longer

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have to look at pictures to understand
movies or menus I can now read to my

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grandchildren

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and now the Cumberland County Public
Library of fville North

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Carolina jod risher is the library
director Sarah Vander Clute member of

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the Board of Trustees and the Community
member and board chair is Willie Wright

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Willie has volunteered at the Cumberland
County Public Library since

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1995 as an army veteran he understands
the support the Cumberland County Public

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Library offers military families facing
Transitions and difficult separations

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Willie says the local library is always
a place where service members can feel

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home next the Garfield Park Conservatory
of Chicago president Unita rushing Margo

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moris is the chairman of the board of
directors and the Community member is

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Tiara Livingston 19-year-old Tiara has
part has participated with the Garfield

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Park conservatory's green teens program
since a freshman year in high school

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growing up on Chicago's West Side Tiara
saw firsthand the challenges and

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troubles her neighborhood was facing
through the green teens program Tiara

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gained job Readiness skills participated
in resume and cover letter workshops and

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learned more about the opportunities
that a college education would provide

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today Tiara is a sophomore at depal
University

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and next the Long Island children's
museum of Garden City New York Susan

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lank the president Robert Lemley the
board co-chair and community members

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Francisco kihala and his daughter Ruth
together to kindergarten is a community

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focused Initiative for Spanish and
Haitian speaking immigrant families

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Francisco and his wife Anna praised the
program for preparing their children to

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start their future the program helped
Ruth become so comfortable with English

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that she did not need an ESL classroom
setting for kindergarten Francisco felt

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at ease because everyone spoke the same
language and everyone was there to help

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the children he says we're better
prepared to play a role in our

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children's education
congratulations and next the Museum of

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Contemporary Art in North Miami Florida
the executive director and chief curator

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Bonnie
Clearwater uh North Miami's mayor The

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Honorable Andre Pierre and Community
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parents were raised in Haiti and moved
to Miami before she was born for the

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last seven years Cassandra has been
actively involved in mocha with ever

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increasing responsibility she says
anyone at any age can relate and learn

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to appreciate art if it had not been for
the people at the Museum I know I would

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not be where I am in life today from
thinking CR critically to analyzing

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carefully the mocha experience Cassandra
says is one that will change your life

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Cassandra says her first job her mentors
her scholarships and even her college

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roommate came as a result of her
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mocha the natur Community Library of
nachita Colorado Paul Paladino is the

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director Scott shine is the president of
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member Jamie Fulbright is also here
Jamie is a wife the mother of young boys

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she's overcome many challenges she
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2006 where she developed confidence and
new skills she found that drawing on her

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own experience she was able to be
empathetic which enabled her to Be an

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Effective resource and guide for others
last summer Jaimie was hired to

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coordinate the library's early literacy
activities now she's taking classes with

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the ultimate goal of receiving her
master's degree in library

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science the Pacific Science Center of
Seattle Washington the president and CEO

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Bryce cidell is here Christopher ay
who's a member of the board of directors

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and the community member who is here is
Andrea Nichols 21-year-old Andrea began

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volunteering at Pacific Science Center
in high school as part of the discovery

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Corp she began with little interest in
science all that turned around when she

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found herself at a science center
weekend event holding a snake for the

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first time in that moment she overcame
her fear of reptiles and discovered a

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passion for science she recently
graduated from the University of

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Washington where a senior project
focused on reptiles and involved a study

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of snakes on Orca Island she's now part
of the Education team at the science

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[Applause]
center Parkview High School library

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media center of Sterling Virginia
Candace main rush and Jennifer fiser

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library media Specialists are here Park
View High School principal Virginia muu

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and Community member Pablo Rivera this
this High School senior was selected by

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the Park viw High School library media
center Librarians for exemplifying the

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impact the Lowden County Virginia
library has on student achievement Pablo

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who is student council Association
president frequents the library before

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and after school to complete his
homework he performs in the library's

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morning concert series as a member of
the Multicultural Ensemble and he

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interacts frequently with staff to find
information and asks for suggestions

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about what he ought to read
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[Applause]
congratulations and finally the shayer

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North Hills library of Glenn Shaw
Pennsylvania the director Sharon McCrae

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is here with Community member Janet
Miller when Janet's husband died in 2007

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it was a difficult time she was happy to
have a job and continue to work she's a

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people person she knew it was best to
keep busy when she retired from her job

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2 years later she needed a place where
she could put her talents to work and 3

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weeks later she found that place at the
shayer North Hills Library she says she

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sees teens in the afternoons after
school she participates in the book club

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and helps with the book sale the library
considers Janet a treasure and Janet

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says she feels good and is enjoying life
and the

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library and of course the other
gentleman here is

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the so today we have heard stories of 10
people with diverse interests and

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aspirations who found that libraries and
museums can provide incredible

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opportunities to grow each is a story of
transformation for these individuals and

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you know it really helps me uh believe
that every day when I go to that office

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building in Washington DC and TR away at
my job that I am making a difference we

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are making a difference when we hear
these great stories of the impacts we

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have on individuals lives these special
libraries and museums help people to

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fulfill to follow their follow their
passions explore talents and build

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skills that lead to personal and
professional fulfillment this year's

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winners represent the best of our
nation's libraries and museums there are

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countless stories across the country of
Americans young and old learning

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enjoying and opening doors to new and
deeply powerful experiences at their

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local Museum or Library