My name is Courtney Dietsch and I'm the Cloquet Public Library director.

Libraries are very important.

They are our institutions of places to be able to just get information to meet.

This is a great place where people can just get together and talk to each other.

People, especially this community, know each other and they can come here and connect and learn as well as get together.

They can check out books, obviously.

We do that as a library.

We still have that that feature, but also we have expanded to doing programing and just doing a lot of other things with the community that people may not realize that we do.

The community can help support the library just in general by coming here and just showing us your support by being here, you know, checking books out, going to programs, things like that.

And also more specifically, they can also, if they're concerned about anything with libraries in terms of, recent events, they can definitely contact the representatives and let them know that they support libraries and they want libraries to stay around.

And then libraries are important to them and their communities.

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