And Hailing from Tacoma.....

Each year I am amazed by the generosity of libraries willing to send hard-to-find materials over far distances for our students to use. The Art of Goaltending by Vladislav Tretiak was proving very hard to locate. The student had found it on eBay but was taken aback by the price. He turned to his librarians. Unable to find it locally, we soon turned to our support group at Memorial Hall Library in Andover. We put in the request but, given the scarcity of the copies, we weren't overly confident that the book would make its way here. But thanks to the Pierce County Library System in Tacoma, Washington, our student was able to exercise his right to read, a right supported by our tax dollars. Tacoma Librarians, thank you, both for the loan of your book but also the nice civics lesson for our reader! You created a life-long library supporter.