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Right for library?

The Spokesman-Review recently published two articles featuring local library programs. The first report was on the Spokane Public Library’s program “Books for Babies.” This seemed to be a wonderful program that engages parents to read to their young children; it starts the little one on the road toward lifelong learning and the love of reading, and it was available throughout the city.

The Spokane County Library District had a program on learning back-to-school hairstyling techniques. This program would be great for community centers, Girls Clubs or the YWCA, but is really best within the Library District? This was a more of a social outreach program than a library program, and it was only offered in Spokane Valley. So the question is how many district-wide library materials could have been procured instead of providing this program for Spokane Valley.

William Sargent

Spokane

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