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In the 1997 movie “Good Will Hunting,” the caption role – a self-educated, working-class talent and part-time street difficult – gets in a discussion in a bar with a pretentious Harvard University student.

?The Ivy League male is trying to show up Will Hunting’s friend,Headpieces Wedding, Chuckie,indian Wedding Jewelry, to a pretty classmate by spewing theories from vaunted historians and quizzing Chuckie on them. Hunting, who has a photographic memory, beats him at his own game and then says this:

“See, the melancholy entity about a guy favor you is in 50 years you’re gonna start act some thinkin’ on your own, and you’re gonna [realize] …you dripped a hundred and fifty grand on a [expletive] education you coulda got for a dollar-fifty in late charges at the public library.”
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' h+ ~* [) E2 Z# N1 W7 Q$ e. S! G" S6 VAnd librarians and library patrons everywhere cheered. But we? library-o-files haven’t had many to cheer about in the elapse 2 years as Pennsylvania has cut funding for public libraries by extra than 30 percent.

With the state sprinting big shortages, it might be tempting apt mention those are needful cuts. But maximum public libraries in the Lehigh Valley are about as a grain of truth a bloated bureaucracy for Meryl Streep namely from the cast of? “Jersey Shore.”
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?Consider the Emmaus Public Library. If there is a leaner quasi-government agent, I’ve never discerned it. The staff receives no health concern scope or library-paid pension. Employees’ wages range from $7.50 one hour to $20 an hour and namely includes librarians with master’s degrees in library science who have 30 annuals of experience.
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Due to funding cuts, the library had to dilute hours beginning final year, which manner they near on Fridays now as well as Sundays.? “Everybody essentially took a 10 percentage cut in hours, which meant a 10 percent cut in disburse,” said Library Director Frances Larash.

' `+ Q: w' L; `! b$ C/ N: i" J?It doesn’t take many to see that Larash and her staff see on their go as a career, a labor of love and principles.

* A% _% X5 Y$ Y* W* D?“It’s chapter of our entire education system, working behind to Ben Franklin,Party Shoes,” said Librarian Dolly Russell. “Waves of emigrants have studied English in our public libraries. It’s important to democracy.”
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3 a# B" K/ m* \- _: E; L) v?“There’s a great handle of adore here,” said Martha Vines, Emmaus’ teens services librarian. “We obtain to watch the kids grow up here and succeed.”

?Long later those kids have graduated from Vines’ story period and paperback dispute teams, she continues to listen from many of them while they absence counsel on good reads -- or to know what’s actually going on around town.?

& {! |  m1 T8 o6 L?When I stopped in recently, the library was packaged and Russell was proctoring a real possession examination for a patron – one of the library’s numerous services. She depicted how distinct patron had done research to start a small affair and even ran it out of the library using the calculators and Internet connection for a when.?
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?The library is rupturing at the seams and, despite the tough economic weather, is moving along with scaled-back plans to build a fashionable children’s wing. The devise would distend the mansion by 3,wholesale Bridal Veils,000 to 3,500 square feet. They hope to crash floor in June.
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But they still absence to raise about $250,000 of the anticipated $700,000 price label. “We are no using anyone administration money,Mother of the Bride Dresses,” Larash said.

?To aid heave money for the wing, the library maneuvers a Valentine’s Day Gala fundraiser from 7-10 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12, at the Brookside Country Club in Lower Macungie Township. It will contain hors d’oeuvres, complimentary wine with a cash bar too available, a silent auction and Valley favorite Dave Roper of Bethlehem on piano. Tickets are $60.

?As state and local governments persist to constrict their straps, it’s vital to acknowledge that not entire government and quasi-government agencies are established equal. There is no substitute in a community for a nice public library. Ben Franklin knew that.?

?Oh, and the movie of “Good Will Hunting”? You can borrow it from the Emmaus library.