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and so i think what the conversation
over the next two days is all about

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bringing these people together bringing
the great panelists group that groups

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that that we have and all of you
uh is if anything about the soul of the

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library what is a library today what
will it be in the future what are we

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doing for the community where is our
leverage point in the community where is

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our importance
in the community the beginning of an

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upswing today is going to be about a
cultural and a moral shift

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and the place that that has to start is
with inclusion

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it's not just about programs and
policies and economic equality it's

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about doing the hard work
of racial reconciliation

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to create a new north star for what a
real inclusive week could look like this

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is what the library is doing in highwood
it is transformational it is impactful

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we have programs like i said for youth
young adult adults and we recently

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received
a major grant of 578 000

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to work on health equity and so getting
health access to individuals

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there needs to be a social movement
among librarians

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to kind of
no i mean of course to social movement

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beyond libraries but in particular among
librarians

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to mobilize
many larger numbers of libraries i'm a

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huge fan of libraries as as as crosby
knows better than anybody i'm an

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enormous fan of libraries not just as a
consumer but but as a as a analyst of

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society
it goes to the the idea that

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i think
most of us believe that we have moved

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from the traditional model to the
transformational model in library world

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and
we're many of us are so far

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gone from the
traditional model that we don't even

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think about it in that sense anymore but
i think if we really were to look across

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the especially for us who were in public
libraries the you know

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nine thousand public library systems
when we started to examine how many of

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them still operated in the traditional
model i think we'd find a lot more than

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we probably think
what matters is re-establishing the

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reputation as being a place
that

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that will provide what you want to read
it's reading that changes lives not

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libraries
it's reading that would enable a

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generation of
teenagers to do the transformation we

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were talking about yesterday
and they would do it we believe that

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they should because they read
programs and the services and the

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the libraries being the community hubs
can drive

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marketing of the library increasing
people coming in that's what my

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perspective is
we know that libraries are resilient and

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we know that libraries respond to what
the community needs i turned from going

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into the community and saying here's
what i have to give you to go into the

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community and saying what is it you need
from us and how can we help you

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there's a fundamental formula which is
often used as a shorthand that the value

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of a network is equal to the number of
connections among users squared

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so each additional user you add to the
network creates exponential value if you

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think of the library as a platform
then ebooks driving down the visits to

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the library is driving down the value of
the platform

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both the medium and the purpose for
reading are changing under our

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fingertips and we have evidence to show
this that we are changing

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how our children's attention
is being developed and in very different

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ways in that zero to five there is no
question the best activation of language

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regions is when the parent is reading
the book

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that what you all are doing or helping
others do

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is to make sense of the world
when people come in and they say i need

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a book i need this they email you you're
making collection development decisions

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you're deciding what ebooks to buy what
print books to buy whatever the case may

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be what programming to put on
you're contributing to this whole notion

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of sense making of helping populations
make sense of the world around them

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and
you're building that trust

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so the question is what role does the
library have right

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in helping our communities because our
schools are overwhelmed they can't do by

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themselves and particularly the families
we're talking about the kids we're

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talking about they don't have the
resources

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so who's going to come in and stand in
the breach if not now when

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we need you to be not in the community
but also of the community

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to recognize that parent
that is low literate that is struggling

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with reading that is struggling to make
sure that their child is not in fourth

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grade is not below a third grade reading
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the uniquely american thing is at the
neighborhood level at the local level

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what he used to call the township level
that we can associate to deal with

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problems that's really what libraries do
there weren't there weren't any public

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libraries or very very few
real public libraries in the 1830s when

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toppo was writing this i think if he saw
what you are and what you do today he

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would say
that's the continuation of the unique

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american thing