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Federal level funding for libraries is
critical and impactful and needed well I

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think what the average person doesn't
recognize or might not be aware of about

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the state liary agency that serves their
state is the impact that it has on their

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local library services and how it
empowers the services that they receive

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in their Community to be stronger and
more efficient um by connecting best

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practices and resources throughout every
every corner in the state at the very

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local level uh I hope that everyone has
visited their local library as a library

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card it is not the library that you
visited 10 or 15 20 years ago um that

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the resources have evolved how it serves
its Community is evolved and that

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Library strive to be responsive and
reflective and respectable of the

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communities that they serve