Libraries are essential resources to schools and to the public. Without them, a community's access to both reading material and technology would be vastly diminished because not everyone has the money to buy books from bookstores or can afford Internet access each month.

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Liam Feste enjoys a book at the Charles D.                                                                                                                                
Owen Middle School library.

"Libraries are important to me because I learn a lot of new things while I read, and books take me places I could never dream of going." -Noah, age 11