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05-15-2006, 06:34 PM
| | |  Jo gives public libraries a helping hand
J.K. Rowling has joined forces with 150 authors to encourage U.K. citizens to take advantage of public libraries through the “ Love Libraries” campaign. Brought about due to the under-utilization of these libraries in recent years, the campaign is designed to encourage the public to take advantage of all that libraries have to offer. Quote:
Rowling compared libraries to the World-Between-The-Worlds from C.S. Lewis's Narnia books as a "magical, mystical place, hushed and unhurried, where visitors could enter a thousand different worlds by jumping into different pools. When I got my eldest daughter a library card I felt as though I had bought her citizenship of that same fabulous world," she said.
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05-15-2006, 06:39 PM
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|  Fairy LightsSnuffles Gold Biscuits Faerie
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Aw that's great! I don't really use libraries much... just go out and buy the books.
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05-15-2006, 06:42 PM
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|  PINK is my least favorite color..Ron's CleansweepClabbert
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Trying my best to wait patiently for DL!
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Aww. That is great!  Go Jo! We need more public library love. And then in return, maybe more public libraries will be better funded for our needs... the one where I live is a disaster.
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05-15-2006, 06:43 PM
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| Portuguese Moderator Thestral
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Neverland
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Fifth Year | Potter’s Princess A+ FangGirl
That's really cool of her 
__________________ I gotta go back to the muggle world,
they're gonna try and tell me this wasn't, that none of this happened,
but you know what? It was real. It did happen.
We spent time here. We made friends here. That's a part of us.
Cause Hogwarts is bigger than any of us, of any of it's founders,
and it's going to be around long after we're gone.
Maybe we'll see our kids come here one day.
That's the thing about Hogwarts.
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05-15-2006, 07:02 PM
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|  Snuffle's Law StudentFlobberworm
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: I share a flat with Severus. Thanks to Jo* for the avvie
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Nicee!
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05-15-2006, 07:10 PM
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| | Kneazle
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: ♥♥
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that's awesome!
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05-15-2006, 07:14 PM
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| | Thestral
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In a fairytale
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thats so nice of him!!!
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05-15-2006, 07:14 PM
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|  Mrs Jack SparrowDoxy
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gotta love Jo!! She is brilliant!! You go girl!!!
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05-15-2006, 07:22 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: In the TARDIS
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I don't use my local library that much, although that's because it's rubbish and has hardly any books. | |
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05-15-2006, 07:24 PM
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|  Tom's BirdKeeper of Dan's GuitarSkrewt
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: I wish I knew......Really I do...
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Thats great...
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05-15-2006, 07:49 PM
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| | Plimpy
Join Date: Oct 2005
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That's great. JK is awesome.
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05-15-2006, 07:57 PM
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05-15-2006, 07:57 PM
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| | Mooncalf
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Waiting for July 13, 2007!
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That's great! Too bad the nearest library doesn't have a lot of the books I want to read.
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05-15-2006, 08:11 PM
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| Luff PuffPadfoot's Pawprint Headz&Tailz<3 Phoenix
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thats awesome! *runs of to her own library*
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I love you, I love you, I love you. I could say it so many times, it wouldn't be enough. I love you. | |
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05-15-2006, 08:13 PM
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|  Keeper of Ginny's AttitudeBatty BellaGriffin
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that si soo sweet of her
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05-15-2006, 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Olivia Granger That's great! Too bad the nearest library doesn't have a lot of the books I want to read. You know, I had that same problem - then I found out there's a Web site where I can request any book in my county's library system and they'll deliver it to any library I want (in my county, of course). And they'll even send me an e-mail when it's arrived. Now I just surf, click and go pick up my books. I can even renew them online. No more searching library shelves. Saves a lot of time. You should see if your library system has a Web site.
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05-15-2006, 09:03 PM
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| Longbottom Legatus
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My library has the same type of system. It's great to be able to search for your book online. No more heading down there and finding they don't have what you need.
Yes. Increase the public Library LOVE! Jo is made of awesome.
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05-15-2006, 09:12 PM
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| | Hippogriff
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: TeXaS!!! UsA!!!
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that's great...she read Narnia ...i love it!
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05-15-2006, 09:26 PM
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|  Keeper of Dan’s DroolFière SorcièreKneazle
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: So much homework! hi
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Cool! That's great!
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05-15-2006, 09:57 PM
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| | Faerie
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thats cool!
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05-15-2006, 11:16 PM
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| | Acromantula
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That's great! Libraries often seem like the most neglected places to me.
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05-16-2006, 12:26 AM
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| Admires Ginny's Sanity DA Galleon KeeperSS Featured Author Clabbert
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I love C.S Lewis. I'm reading the Chronicles right now. I loved thr Magician's Nephew. lol. Go JK! I wish something like that would happen in the US. Sounds awesome though 
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05-16-2006, 12:51 AM
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| Keeper of Dan’s Empathy Skrewt
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That is great the libary is awesome. I am serious you do really kool things there. and meet new intersting people there. Plus you get school work done or most of the times anyway. I think everyone especially kids should have a libary card and should go frequently. It kind of like a book store just a bit different.
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05-16-2006, 01:33 AM
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| | Glumbumble
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that´s just awesome! yeah GO JO!!! it´s so nice to see that she cares for that and that she´s doing something about it
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05-16-2006, 01:38 AM
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| Luna and Neville = OTP LV's Missing NoseBicorn
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I'm not a nerd or anything, but I love Jo's latest cause because I am a library junkie. I know it's in the UK, but it would be good if public libraries everywhere are updated and refurbished from time to time. Most public libraries don't flourish because of the usual excuses--lack of funds, support, etc. Jo's support will be a boost, no doubt and it'll encourage people to utilize libraries more often.
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