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		<title>Spring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will it ever be spring? Although I love to watch all of the seasons from my favorite reading chair, I am ready&#8211; more than ready&#8211; to see leaves on the trees. I love to watch the birds but really know very few by name and although I work in a library, can check on any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presentation to City Council on February 25, 2013</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 24, 2013 Thank you Mayor and Council for the opportunity to update you on the status of the DeKalb Public Library expansion project. Since our last discussion in January, a delegation of DeKalb interested persons met with the Illinois State Library delegation. I want to commend the Secretary of State, Jesse White, who is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dkpl.org/blog/director/?p=447</link>
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		<title>Downtown Summit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was very pleased with all of the organization and comments at yesterday&#8221; downtown summit. I know the library contributes to the numbers coming downtown and using the shopping opportunities as well as dining oppotunities. Parking is certainly always on my mind because until recently, we did not have any parking. Now we have a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dkpl.org/blog/director/?p=444</link>
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		<title>J K Rowling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finished A Casual Vacancy last night. This is the new novel by the author of the Harry Potter books. You would not imagine that the same person wrote this book as well as Harry Potter. I am impressed. Although this book was dark, I was so captivated by the writing that I continued on. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dkpl.org/blog/director/?p=441</link>
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		<title>Marge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our beloved collegue Marge Dumsdorf has passed away. The library will be closed Friday morning so we can attend the funeral which will be Ronan Moore Finch across the street at 10:30 am. Dee]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dkpl.org/blog/director/?p=437</link>
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		<title>Resolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not a diarist or a journal keeper &#8212; always a reader&#8211; so I have not kept up the blog as I should. However, we now have so much good news that I will try to update this site at least weekly and maybe more often. The Illinois State Library has given us an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dkpl.org/blog/director/?p=435</link>
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		<title>Shopping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have some holiday shopping ideas right here at the library. We have aprons, blankets, t-shirts, copies of Wired. And the very popular chocolate bars from The Confectionary which have a picture of the library. Part of each sale benefits the library so please consider doing some shopping right here.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dkpl.org/blog/director/?p=430</link>
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		<title>At Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then I so love a book that I do want to shout it out. At Home by Bill Bryson fascinates in every word. He gives the history of each area of the home but in such incredible detail that one hardly can take it all in. Highly recommended. Dee]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dkpl.org/blog/director/?p=428</link>
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		<title>Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazingly, our website is now over 3 years old. We still love the look but&#8230; new things come up all of the time and where do we put them? Also, the world is becoming icnreasingly mobile and the website needs to recognize that. Although we won&#8217;t change the look, we will be investigating changing some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dkpl.org/blog/director/?p=426</link>
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		<title>Trees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We recently had an arborist go over all of our trees in the &#8220;old&#8221; property and the &#8220;new&#8221; property. Many trees are in dead or dying states. Certainly our trees in the parkway are dying. We have had three trees fall in the new property. The arborist said &#8220;girding &#8221; roots were the casue of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dkpl.org/blog/director/?p=423</link>
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