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Wednesday, 17th February 2010

Magazine Shares Stories of Libraries Helping in Tough Economic Times

From the Announcement:

Woman’s Day magazine’s March issue profiles four women who used the resources at their libraries to save money and accessed library resources to cope with economic tough times. The article marks the beginning of the ninth year Woman’s Day magazine and the American Library Association’s (ALA) Campaign for America’s Libraries have partnered to highlight the value of libraries.

Featured in the magazine is the story of Karen Schmidt of Camano Island, Wash., who uses the resources and programs at her library to help homeschool her son.

“The library has made homeschooling completely doable on a single wage-earner’s income,” wrote Schmidt.

All four stories are featured on womansday.com/library. The online article highlights Tammy Thomas of Stuarts Draft, Va., who used interlibrary loan to check out college textbooks; Stefanie Schmidt of Las Vegas, who used the library’s free resources to find her place in a new community; and Cassandra Robbers of Almond, N.Y., who learned how renovate her 1880s home with books from the library.

Woman’s Day magazine has a readership of 22 million, and more than 1.5 million unique visits to womansday.com per month.

Source: ALA


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