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Hi Judy,

Thanks for sharing this. Thanks for reminding me that every day that we
as library media specialists are forming a child's perceptions and
attitudes toward libraries and librarians. I am always struck when
reading biographies that people either really love or really hate
libraries. And how that attitude was almost always formed as a child. I
have always felt lucky to have had a public librarian much like Jim's
when I was a little boy growing up on the Iowa prairie.

Thus endeth the sermon,

Doug
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Doug Johnson
Director of Media and Technology
I.S.D. 77, Mankato Public Schools
Box 8713, Mankato MN 56002-8713
Voice: 507-387-7698, Fax: 507-387-2496
E-mail: dougj@doug-johnson.com
Web: www.doug-johnson.com

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and
taste good with ketchup.

-----Original Message-----
From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Judy Stewman
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:08 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: GEN: "Gift to a Library" editorial


This column was on the editorial page on the "Arkansas Democrat-Gazette"
today, March 7, 2002. No author is given. I thought you might be
interested...

Gift to a Library

     The size of Jim Blair's gift to the Fayetteville library isn't
what's most impressive about it - although the gift is a big 'un: $3
million.
     That's thought to be the biggest single gift ever made to a public
library in Arkansas. But what really registered was Jim Blair's memories
of a librarian who was nice to a 7-year-old. The 7 -year-old was little
Jim, back in the 1940's, and the librarian worked at the Fayetteville
library. She let young Blair take home a box full of books every
Saturday. Mr. Blair said her actions probably violated every check-out
policy that existed back then. But she knew him and trusted him with
those precious books. She knew he'd be back the next week for another
boxfull.
     Jim Blair's story will sound familiar to anybody who ever fell in
love with a library at an impressionable age. Love catches most of us by
surprise. Sometimes the most unlikely candidate will get swept off his
feet by those rows and rows of books, and all the previously unimagined
worlds they opened. Jim Blair knows the feeling, and he remembered it
after all these years.
    This gift gets the library close to the $23 million needed to build
and equip its new building.
    We'd bet that the library makes its ambitious goal. There are a lot
of folks out there who love their libraries, and remember.





Judy Stewman, Librarian
De Queen High School
1803 W. Coulter Drive
De Queen, AR 71832
stewmanj@leopards.k12.ar.us

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