In Rhode Island, federal funding touches nearly everything we do.
As we're primarily a library development agency, we use our
funds to support all our programs and the staff that
conduct those programs.
So we use federal funds for summer reading.
We use it for our talking books, library for the blind and print
disabled.
We use it to support statewide resources such as online
databases and statewide delivery and digitization.
So it really makes a difference.
We wouldn't be able to do the breadth of programs we do or
provide that close service and support for our public libraries
throughout the state if we didn't have the federal fund.
We appreciate so much the leadership of IMLS.
They are so fundamental.
The vision that set nationwide libraries and the flexibility
that we have in making that vision come to life in our
individual states, it's it's indispensable in terms of what
we do.