Oprah Libraries Need You!
Library lovers…there’s a campaign going on over at Facebook to get Oprah Winfrey to acknowledge the current plight of libraries sometime during the last season of The Oprah Show. If you’re a facebook member, please sign up and tell your friends too…in less than two weeks, the group has grown to over 1200 members. Wouldn’t it be great to have Oprah do a series of shows at a variety of libraries and demonstrate how valuable our libraries are to our communities?
Please sign up at Oprah, Libraries Need You, ask your blog readers to do so and your library patrons too…we need to make an impact in numbers.
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