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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Please consider. Thanks.</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Donna</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Please sign in support of our school librarian colleagues! Please excuse any cross postings but I believe this is important! </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Please sign the petition to require that all public schools employ a full-time, certified school librarian.<BR>
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This was recently created on the We the People page of the official White House web site.<BR>
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Once created, we have 30 days to collect 25,000 signatures. At that point, the Obama administration will consider the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> petition.<BR>
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So send the link to everyone on your mailing list. There are over 2,000 signatures now. We can do this!<BR>
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</FONT><A HREF="http://wh.gov/QMUI"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">http://wh.gov/QMUI</FONT></U></A><BR>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Donna L Cohen, MLIS, MEd</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">D L Cohen Information Services</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Portland, Oregon</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">503-737-1425</FONT>
<BR><A HREF="mailto:dcohen@dcoheninfo.com"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">dcohen@dcoheninfo.com</FONT></U></A>
<BR><A HREF="http://www.dcoheninfo.com"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">www.dcoheninfo.com</FONT></U></A>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Information is power....if you can find it!</FONT>
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