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<p class="MsoNormal">Just a final goodbye on the last day for DCLS remaining staff…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And a quote…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not
afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994), Ch. 8, Library<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And a very heartfelt ‘thank you’ to everyone around the state for your concern and support…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Harold A. Hayes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Library Director<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Douglas County Library System<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1409 NE Diamond Lake Blvd.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Roseburg, OR 97470<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">541-440-4311<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">hahayes@co.douglas.or.us<o:p></o:p></p>
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