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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">Joel Henderson is the Administrative Program Coordinator of
the Talking Book and Braille Library, at the State Library of Oregon. Please
download and read his latest article, “Operation Alexandria Gutenberg: How the Talking
Book and Braille Library Transitioned to Customized Cartridges,” here: <a href="http://journals3.library.oregonstate.edu/olaq/article/view/vol26_iss2_7" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">http://journals3.library.oregonstate.edu/olaq/article/view/vol26_iss2_7</a><span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">

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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="line-height:107%">From Joel’s article, “</span><span style="line-height:107%">We
have all been there: you have something new and exciting you want to try, you
have received approval, and now you have a plan. And it is such a nice plan. A
logical, achievable, well-informed and well-crafted plan, like the kind you
would see framed in a plan museum somewhere.<span></span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">

</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">It’s just too bad that plan will never see the light of day.<span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">

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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">For a variety of reasons, no plan survives contact. It could
be some small oversight that unravels the plan, or it could be, as in our case,
a pandemic. But good planning is all about being flexible enough to reinvent
your plan to work around obstacles instead of crashing straight into them.”<span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">

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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">Joel Henderson is a
graduate of Willamette University, and is proud to hold the title of least
well-read English major of all time. He has worked at the State Library for 13
years, and is currently responsible for coordinating Talking Book and Braille
Library volunteers, as well as creating and uploading local-interest audiobooks
to the NLS Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) platform. He lives in
Salem, Oregon, with his wife, three children, and six chickens. Each morning he
commutes to work on a moped, in his free time he plays Pokémon Go a lot, and
lately he has gotten into lathing.<span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">





</font></span><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">Thank you,</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">Charles Wood</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">OLA Quarterly Coordinator</font></span><br></div></div>