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Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 14:12:05 +0200

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aliaPUBNEWS
Barack Obama on Public Libraries []
http://www.ilovelibraries.org/news/topstories/firstjob.cfm

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[22 December 2008] In 2005, Barack Obama told American Libraries magazine: People always mention libraries in terms of just being sources for reading material or research. But I probably would not be in Chicago were it not for the Manhattan public library, because I was looking for an organizing job and was having great trouble finding a job as a community organizer in New York. The Mid-Manhattan Library had these books of lists of organizations, and the librarian helped me find these lists of organizations, and I wrote to every organization. One of them wound up being an organization in Chicago that I got a job with. The help is still there, and in even greater sophistication. Check it out.

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