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Hello,

One of the big takeaways I took from the FRwtL meeting was the importance of personally connecting and inviting people to programs and events. Last year we hosted a poet for a workshop and only had two attendees. Yesterday we had 25 adults attend. I reached out to several writing groups to let them know about the event and personally reached out to patrons who I knew were interested in poetry. We did this in addition to flyers, Facebook, newspaper articles and the libraries website. We had the widest web possible for this event. Below is an email I just received about the event.

To quote something that Karen Brooks says, I'm over the moon! I woke up in the night thinking about what I experienced at the Tehama County Library and your poetry workshop. To me it was a spiritual/religious experience. I was amazed at the depth of sharing and quality of the material shared from yellow daffodils to confessed infidelity, tears and laughter, nonsense and fun, even prayers in movement.

What Carol said at the workshop about personally connecting people about common goals really is true. I am looking forward to seeing every one's progress and how these philosophies are carried out throughout our entire library environments.