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A Report on National Library Legislative Day

I’m sitting at the airport waiting for my now delayed plane to arrive (of course), so why not take a bit of time to tell you lovely people how things went yesterday. As a refresher, I’ve been in DC to meet with Maine’s Senators and Representatives in hopes of getting them to support libraries as strongly as possible. It’s part of the American Library Association’s National Library Legislative Day. Really, they have it down to an art form. We had a big conference on Monday to go over the main talking points they wanted everyone to push when they met […]

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Legislating It Up

I’m back down in DC for the next few days, attending National Library Legislative Day once again. If you forgot from last time, that means I’m down with a contingent from Maine, learning about the issues the American Library Association wants to push on with Congress. That’s on today’s slate: the learning. Tomorrow, I’ll be meeting with Senators King and Collins and Representative Pingree (no word on whether Poliquin is making time for us yet) to do the actual pushing. On the one hand, it sounds far more Important than it feels like in real life, speaking from some experience

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Libraries: The New Commons

For the past several months, I’ve been involved with the New Commons Project at the University of Maine at Farmington. It’s a fascinating effort, as they’ve asked people across the state, “What cultural works are of most value to us today?” The answers have ranged all over the place, from pop music to Dr. Seuss, graffiti artists to Jane Austen. Once the finalists are selected (to be announced tomorrow!), we will be looking at each work, one month at a time. 24 works will be selected in total. Yesterday was the big kick off lecture for the series. Lewis Hyde,

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Support Your Library with Your Tax Refund

I get it. Tax refunds are sweet sweet moola. You look forward to using that money to do important things. Buying snow blowers. Taking trips to someplace warmer. And I’m not here to tell you not to do any of that. What you do with your tax refund is between you and that $2,000 of instant chocolate pudding you’re thinking of buying. However . . . Did you know that if you live in Maine, you can throw your library a little bit of that tax refund? And you can do it with a single click of a mouse? It’s

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