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Sarasota News Leader April 5, 2013 Page 53 COUNTY LIBRARIES TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK Libraries in the Sarasota County Library System will celebrate National Library Week April 14-20, encouraging residents and visitors to stop in and experience "why libraries are a vital part of the community," the county has announced. resources that can help people achieve those goals, the release adds. "Sarasota County libraries help level the playing field by making print and digital information affordable, available and accessible to all people," it notes. The theme for the 2013 National Library Week "Something is always going on at one of our nine libraries," says Sarabeth Kalajian, genis "Communities Matter @ Your Library." eral manager of the Sarasota County Library "Sarasota County libraries offer a wide range System, in the release. "Our libraries offer serof services and activities designed to assist vices, programs and a wealth of information, and empower people," a news release says, in- so this year's theme is very appropriate and I cluding "diverse programs that mirror the in- encourage residents and visitors to stop in to terests of Sarasota County." From job seekers a library today," she adds. looking for resources, to parents looking for For more information, contact the Sarasota free activities for children, to students search- County Call Center at 861-5000 or visit www. ing for help with homework, libraries provide scgov.net/library. Selby Public Library is on First Street in downtown Sarasota. Photo by Norman Schimmel