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Public service. Thank you for attending todays session, its great to see all of you in person. Its been three years, so [applause] and during this past three years, we cant thank all of you enough for your support of the library of congress back home. Now, we want to remind you that the library is there for you, whether youre here in washington or youre at your library back home in your communities. We are the Nations Library and its at your disposal to use anytime. So if you want to look at Thomas Jeffersons collection or George Washington or rosa parks or Frederick Douglas collection, i could go on and on, you can do it from home. Thanks to everyone for everyone who stopped by the pavilion and who stopped by our open house yesterday. We cant thank you enough. Your stories and work inspired us from prison librarians to army librarians, to of course, children, youth, young adult librarians, we were so inspired by the stories we were hearing. One thing that was spotlighted during the pa
We cant thank all of you enough for your support of the library of congress back home. You know, we want to remind you that the library is there for you whether youre here in washington or youre at your library back home in your communities. We are the Nations Library and it is at your disposable to use any time. So if you want to look at Thomas Jeffersons collection or George Washingtons or rosa parks or Frederick Douglass collection, i could go on and on you could do it from home. Thank you to everyone who have stopped by the loc pavilion and of course everyone who stopped by our open house yesterday. We cant thank you enough your stories your work have completely inspired us from prison librarians to army librarians to of course children and youth young adult librarians. We were so inspired by all the stories. We were hearing. One thing that was spotlighted during the pandemic was the Important Role of libraries across the nation. People discover that librarians are frontline worker
Washingtons or rosa parks or Frederick Douglass collection, i could go on and on you could do it from home. Thank you to everyone who have stopped by the loc pavilion and of course everyone who stopped by our open house yesterday. We cant thank you enough your stories your work have completely inspired us from prison librarians to army librarians to of course children and youth young adult librarians. We were so inspired by all the stories. We were hearing. One thing that was spotlighted during the pandemic was the Important Role of libraries across the nation. People discover that librarians are frontline workers during this pandemic whether you were giving out free covid tests or doing Contact Tracing or just trying to help your communities get through that entire pandemic. So todays conversation is as vital as librarians you all have an Important Role in the release of proper information. So today that librarian of congress along with her with our esteemed colleague will be discussi