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In Rhode Island, federal funding
touches nearly everything we do.

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As we're primarily a library
development agency, we use our

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funds to support all our
programs and the staff that

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conduct those programs.

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So we use federal funds for
summer reading.

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We use it for our talking books,
library for the blind and print

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disabled.

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We use it to support statewide
resources such as online

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databases and statewide delivery
and digitization.

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So it really makes a difference.

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We wouldn't be able to do the
breadth of programs we do or

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provide that close service and
support for our public libraries

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throughout the state if we
didn't have the federal fund.

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We appreciate so much the
leadership of IMLS.

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They are so fundamental.

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The vision that set nationwide
libraries and the flexibility

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that we have in making that
vision come to life in our

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individual states, it's it's
indispensable in terms of what

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we do.