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The infusion from CARES, and
especially off of really had a

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fun fundamental impact on the
way you could set up libraries

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for the future in Rhode Island.

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With the CARES funding, we
helped our libraries reopen by

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providing them with protective
equipment and ways to do

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programming that was safe.

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Outdoor programming, virtual
programming.

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So we provided grants to every
single Public Library, and our

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libraries in Rhode Island were
the first libraries to reopen in

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New England.

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Thanks to the cares funding that
came through with ARPA, we

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granted all that money out
individually to up update

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technology, especially in our
economically distressed

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communities.

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So we provided a lot of new
computers in libraries, we

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funded book machines, self
checked machines in the

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libraries, and added other
technology that could continue

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the virtual programming services
that are lingering after the

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pandemic.