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ROBIN DALE: All right my name is Robin Dale
I'm the associate Deputy Director of library

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services and I get to work with a lot of the
fantastic people that are in the room here

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today and have helped put this together and
I just wanted to present a few final thoughts

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on behalf of IMLS
So first, thank you for joining us for this

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final convening of 2015 we've had two previous
ones, one on the national digital platform,

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one on learning in libraries held in April
and May respectively.

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And both of those particular convenings are
helping inform IMLS and driving some of the

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funding priorities that you'll see coming
in the 2016 notice of funding opportunities.

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This particular one is very different, though,
this last convening of the year And it's really

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an opportunity for us to -- for us to think
more about the amazing work that's being done

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in libraries through a variety of programs
that we have out, through a variety of state

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programs that are going on, both the state
funding and also the LSTA funding that comes

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out through IMLS' grants to states program
I want to stop just a minute and really kind

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of hold up the work of state libraries both
for people in this room I know we have five

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state librarians, chiefs, with us here today.

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But I've had a great opportunity to meet and
work with these libraries in the last ten

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months that I've been at IMLS and they really
do amazing work and I think often don't get

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the credit that's due to them.

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And Maura and I were talking a little bit
earlier about the kind of basic work they

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do that make things run that help all of us
I don't know how many times I've heard today

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from public libraries and other libraries
in different states and regions say and I

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was able to do this through LSTA funding or
state funding that was available to me so

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I really just want to kind of hold up state
libraries and say thank you for what you do

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you're kind of like this basic infrastructure
that we take for granted but there's so much

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fantastic and amazing work going on and we
really just wanted to be able to recognize

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that here today, too.

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But there's also an amazing amount of work
going on through the IMLS discretionary grant

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program and many people in the room spoke
about those grants and the projects that are

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enabled by that funding, too, so we thank
you for that.

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Because those discretionary grant programs
such as the national leadership grant program

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and also the Laura Bush 21st Century librarianship
program also help us serve all different types

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of libraries, all different types of communities.

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They fund library schools and professional
development training and continuing education

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for librarians and library staff in those
organizations.

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And of course it also gave us a chance to
hold up our Federal partnerships and partnerships

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with other really fantastic organizations
in the room, many of whom you have heard from

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today.

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So I just want to kind of think about and
think about how we would describe this particular

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convening and that is an amazing chance to
showcase these activities, the things we have

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talked about, a lot of tweets have been going
on about the amazing work that they are hearing

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about on the twitterverse and we're appreciative
of that and I hope all of you have found some

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level of inspiration in some of the projects
I know I have.

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I feel like sometimes I live and breathe these
things and I learn so much -- learned so much

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today by just being able to participate myself
so I hope you have, as well.

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The good work and more information about what
took place today will be written up for us.

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We have Christy Hill and Sharon Streams from
OCLC they have been here with us both participating

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and madly taking notes.

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So that they can synthesize the discussions
and the information today and prepare a report

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for us that will be available on the IMLS
Focus Web site so just so you know all of

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those kinds of information they may be contacting
you for slides.

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I believe we probably have those that are
there and just being able to put that information

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up there.

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Note now that it's up there in public or when
it is in about a month approximately a month,

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be sure that you will probably be contacted
by other people out there that are learning

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about this for the first time.

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And certainly last but not least, I would
be remiss for not thanking many, many people.

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So I do want to start actually really briefly
for thanking our IMLS Office of Library services

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staff that organized this event and Maura
recognized them indirectly a little bit earlier

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but let me just name them so thank you to
Madison Bulls, Teri DeVoe, Michelle, Katie

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and Sandy Torro they have done an amazing
job they did all of this planning they put

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this together so thank you to them very much.

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(Applause).

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>> ROBIN DALE: And of course because every
event has a ton of logistics just a quick

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thank you to Margaret at Capital Meeting Planning
and her associates because for those of you

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who needed to work with them to get here to
stay here and all of the onsite things, thank

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you to them.

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And certainly our largest thanks as well also
goes to John and his colleagues at the Los

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Angeles Public Library for hosting us so thank
you very much.

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(Applause)
>> ROBIN DALE: Finally last but not least

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thank you to those of you who joined us today,
those of you who joined us today on the twitterverse

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at the height of it we had 236 unique users
online and actively watching us tweeting along

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with us and we appreciate you and all of those
comments are also going to be incorporated

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as a part of the publication
So thank you for your time, your really good

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questions, your discussions and helping us
think about the really good work, share the

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really good work that's happening out there
today.

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And we wish you safe travels to those of you
who had to travel to come here and otherwise

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the locals, thank you very much for taking
the time to join us to have to run off and

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come back and join us, thank you, all, very
much.

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(Applause)