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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">From a legal standpoint, do you allow persons of diminished capacity who are 18 years of age or older and also have a caretaker/minder when in the library, to sign
for a library card? Or, do you require a legal guardian to sign (and be financially responsible for items checked out)?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks for your help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Terri Washburn, MLIS, MPA | Library Director
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Cook Memorial Library | 2006 4<sup>th</sup> Street | La Grande, OR 97850<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library…
<a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges" title="Jorge Luis Borges">
<span style="color:#0563C1">Jorge Luis Borges</span></a>, <i>Dreamtigers</i> (1960)</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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