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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:navy'>Interesting, indeed.  Unfortunately,
we have many tiny, grossly underfunded public libraries here in eastern </span></font><font
  size=2 color=navy face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
  color:navy'>Oregon</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:navy'>, who literally cannot
afford to purchase even one e-book reader for staff or public use.  </span></font></p>

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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:navy'> </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:navy'>Don’t believe it?  Peruse the
statistics available from the State Library.  You might find it hard to
understand how anyone can run a library on such minimal funding.</span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:navy'> </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:navy'>Even the comparatively well-off libraries
in this end of the state are almost poverty-stricken compared with libraries
serving similar populations on the west side.  </span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>It’s not that the residents here are
cheapskates.  They simply have much lower average incomes than their
counterparts west of the Cascades.</span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>-</span></font><font size=2 color=navy
 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Bob
 Jones</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>, MA, MSLS, CAS</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Milton-Freewater Public Library</span></font></p>

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