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		<title>Seattle City Council Passes Option C Funding for The Seattle Public Library</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, November 12, 2009, the Seattle City Council unanimously voted to increase the General Subfund (GSF) support for library services by $860,000 in 2010.  As described in the Seattle City Council’s green sheet Tab 94, Action 1, Option C, Version 1, “[$860,000] would restore 140 of the library operating hours that would be eliminated per [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=friendsofspl.wordpress.com&blog=2260767&post=2233&subd=friendsofspl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Online Access to ConsumerReports.org Through the Library!</title>
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Before you make your next big (or little) purchase, why not check out the product reviews and ratings on ConsumerReports.org? Now you can do that online for free through the Library’s web site at www.spl.org.
 To find ConsumerReports.org, go to www.spl.org and click on &#8220;Databases &#38; Web Sites.&#8221;  Next, click on &#8220;Consumer Reports &#38; Information&#8221; and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=friendsofspl.wordpress.com&blog=2260767&post=1197&subd=friendsofspl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Art, Family, Playgrounds and Greenlake Library</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;On a typical Sunday outing we’ll take our bikes and scooters down to the lake, have breakfast, play at the playground, go to the library and go home,&#8221; Greenlake patron Rebecca Albiani told us over morning coffee.  The library serves an important role in both her family and professional life. Her eldest son, 8, &#8220;is an avid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=friendsofspl.wordpress.com&blog=2260767&post=2063&subd=friendsofspl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seattle Neighborhood Blogs Take Up the Final Call to Action to Save Neighborhood Branch Library Hours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Neighborhood blogs across Seattle are supporting the Friends of The Seattle Public Library!  Thanks to the Laurelhurst Blog, Rainier Valley Post, Wallyhood, Miller Park, Beacon Hill Blog, My Green Lake and Wedgewood Blog for getting your communities involved in this final email campaign and thanks to Blogging Georgetown, Capitol Hill Seattle, Fremont Universe, Greenwood, Magnolia Voice, PhinneyWood, Queen Anne View and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=friendsofspl.wordpress.com&blog=2260767&post=2153&subd=friendsofspl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://friendsofspl.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/seattle-neighborhood-blogs-take-up-the-final-call-to-action-to-save-neighborhood-branch-library-hours-2/</link>
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		<title>The Seattle Public Library: A World Class Site &#8212; in More Ways Than One!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to a grant from the Friends, the Seattle Public Library expanded its web site earlier this year to include more information for its patrons who speak Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian, and to add information in Somali and Amharic.  To reach these new web pages, go the Library web site and see the Audiences column [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=friendsofspl.wordpress.com&blog=2260767&post=2107&subd=friendsofspl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://friendsofspl.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/the-seattle-public-library-a-world-class-site-in-more-ways-than-one/</link>
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		<title>How the Mayoral and City Council Candidates Stack Up on Library Funding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For information on how the Seattle City Council candidates responded to our questions on Library budget issues, see the FSPL website for the 2009 edition of our newsletter.  
We didn’t receive responses from mayoral candidates Joe Mallahan and Mike McGinn in time for newsletter publication, but here’s a link to a Seattle Times article about their positions.
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		<link>http://friendsofspl.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/how-the-mayoral-and-city-council-candidates-stack-up-on-library-funding/</link>
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		<title>Call to Action! Please email undecided Councilmembers now to save library hours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Councilmembers Burgess, Harrell, and Licata are championing a restoration of 1.2 million dollars to the 2010 budget which will keep our libraries open next year with the same operating hours we enjoy this year.
Unfortunately none of the options Council put forward will stop our libraries from closing for a one week furlough, but we think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=friendsofspl.wordpress.com&blog=2260767&post=2035&subd=friendsofspl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://friendsofspl.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/call-to-action-please-email-undecided-councilmembers-now-to-save-library-hours/</link>
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		<title>4 Options for restoring library funding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the election for new Council members and a new mayor is being decided, important decisions are  being made daily at Seattle City Council. On November 2, City Council began considering 4 options to partially restore library funding. If there is no funding restoration, The Library will have to cut 330 weekly service hours to comply [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=friendsofspl.wordpress.com&blog=2260767&post=2043&subd=friendsofspl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://friendsofspl.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/4-options-for-restoring-library-funding/</link>
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		<title>Gates Foundation strengthens Library&#8217;s Job Resource Center</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Gates Foundation&#8217;s $50,000 grant to The Seattle Public Library, announced this week, will strengthen the services of The Job Resource Center located at Central library.  The Center, opened on June 29, 2009 with initial grant money from Friends of The Seattle Public Library, operates in partnership with WorkSource Seattle-King County. It features six computers with generous two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=friendsofspl.wordpress.com&blog=2260767&post=2020&subd=friendsofspl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://friendsofspl.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/gates-foundation-strengthens-librarys-job-resource-center/</link>
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		<title>Award Winning Seattle Author Richard Farr Emails in Support of The Seattle Public Library – Join Him!</title>
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The Friends of The Seattle Public Library had the distinct pleasure of featuring award winning-author Richard Farr at their 68th annual meeting this past Sunday.  Farr’s book, Emperors of the Ice: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in the Antarctic, 1910 – 13, has been named winner of the 2009 Scanduzzi Children’s Book Award [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=friendsofspl.wordpress.com&blog=2260767&post=1997&subd=friendsofspl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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