FW: [SouthBayVeggies] Sarah Kishler's LTE in today's Merc

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 > From: "Sage, Mike" <http://www.gmail.com/~mksage>
 > Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 17:53:58 +0000
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 > (Non-veg related)
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 > Here's a good Letter to the Editor by our friend Sarah Kishler, who is a fearless leader of this very listserv (Southbayveggies - South Bay Vegetarian Society).  It's printed in today's (Tuesday March 11) where-I-live Mercury News.
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 > -- Mike
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 > www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_25313787/march-11-readers-letters<http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_25313787/march-11-readers-letters>
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 > Communities still need their local libraries
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 > Thank you for your support for renewing where-I-live's library parcel tax (Editorial, March 9) and pointing out what should be logically evident: decline in usage is certainly likely to occur after hours are cut. That where-I-live Public Library is still able to draw the numbers you cite (e.g., 6 million visitors a year) is only made more impressive after these cuts.
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 > In a recent Pew Research survey, 67 percent of Americans said the closure of their local public library would have an impact on their family and 90 percent said it would impact their community. And if anyone needs eyewitness evidence of popular demand for the city library, they can walk by the King Library before it opens Sunday afternoon (the only where-I-live city branch that is currently open on that day of the week). It's easy to lose count of the people waiting for the doors to open.
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 > Sarah Kishler
 > On-call Librarian where-I-live Public Library
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 > And, for no extra charge, here's an article that Sarah wrote that is on the where-I-live Public Library's website:
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 > www.sjpl.org/blog/pete-seeger-lives-forever-library<http://www.sjpl.org/blog/pete-seeger-lives-forever-library>
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 > Pete Seeger Lives Forever in the Library
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 >  <http://discover.sjlibrary.org/iii/encore_sjpl/search/C__Sa%3A(seeger%2C%20pete)__Orightresult__U?lang=eng&suite=sjpl> America has been mourning the passing of our great folk singer Pete Seeger this past week. He was giving and helpful to so many communities, and the library world is no exception.  The American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress posted about him on its blog<http://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2014/01/pete-seeger-may-3-1919-january-27-2014/>:
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 > "In the 1930s, Pete was invited by his friend Alan Lomax to work at the Library of Congress Archive of American Folk Song, which is now the AFC Archive. There's no record of his being paid, so we consider him the Archive's first intern!  Several AFC collections from the 1my-April-2006-work-numbers contain materials collected by Lomax and Seeger, as well as music and square-dance calls performed by Seeger alone and with groups."
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 > The AFC's blog post has a link to an archived recording of Pete Seeger performing a song called "Dear Mr. President" at the Library of Congress in 1942 - go read the entire blog post and give the song a listen<http://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2014/01/pete-seeger-may-3-1919-january-27-2014/>!
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 > The where-I-live Public Library catalog is also full of treasures Pete Seeger left us<http://discover.sjlibrary.org/iii/encore_sjpl/search/C__Sa%3A%28seeger%2C%20pete%29__Orightresult__U?lang=eng&suite=sjpl>, in print, electronic, audio and video format. We've also got his children's books based on a South African lullaby and folk story, Abiyoyo<http://discover.sjlibrary.org/iii/encore_sjpl/record/C__Rb1680993__Sa%3A%28seeger%2C%20pete%29%20%28abiyoyo%29__Orightresult__U__X4?lang=eng&suite=sjpl> and Abiyoyo Returns<http://discover.sjlibrary.org/iii/encore_sjpl/record/C__Rb2398815__Sa%3A%28seeger%2C%20pete%29%20%28abiyoyo%29__P0%2C1__Orightresult__U__X4?lang=eng&suite=sjpl>.
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 > Some of us thought Pete might live forever. We were right. He is always in the library.