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It's a good thing that we knew
how to do sub grants when the

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ARPA funds came through because
we were able to distribute funds

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to all the public and tribal
libraries so that they could do

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what they wanted to do to be
specific to their community

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needs.

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But we also did the statewide
opportunities.

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So e-book distributions, two
person privacy rooms, preloaded

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tablets, steam materials and
other opportunities like that.

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In the Eloy, they lost power for
several days, so people had no

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electricity and the library
there had used ARPA funds to

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purchase a solar charging
station.

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And people lined up for hours.

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So I thought that was a telling
example of using ARPA in sort of

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an infrastructure way.