<div dir="ltr">Wonderful!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Lorene Forman</div><div>Jefferson County Library Youth Services Specialist</div><div>541-475-3351, ext 2</div><div><br><div style="overflow:hidden;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:left;border:medium none"><font color="#38761d" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a title="view quote" href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/willrogers386200.html" target="_blank"></a></font>“Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.”
Art Spiegelman<br><font style="text-decoration:none" color="#000000"><span></span></font></div></div><br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 10:41 AM, MaryKay Dahlgreen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marykay.dahlgreen@state.or.us" target="_blank">marykay.dahlgreen@state.or.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our colleagues at the Deschutes Public Library are featured in an article in
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The Atlantic</a>. Oregon is a particularly strong library state and I think the work being done in Deschutes and other libraries around the state demonstrate that we are no longer asking “will libraries survive” but saying “this is how libraries and their communities
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