GRACIE STAHURA AND SOPHIA HUSACK: "Do you see those teeth? It’s so cool. I never knew about the pellets. We have a big yard and there’s woods all around us, and I’m going to look under the trees, so if I find them I’m going to get some toothpicks and open it."
Lisa Purcell looks at Gracie and Sophia and smiles a big smile at their excitement about science.
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BARBARA KLEIN: Public libraries are an important part of American communities. But public services are facing budget cuts as many communities struggle to recover after the recession. Now libraries are hoping to get more attention, and more money, with an unusual advertising campaign.
Paula Baxter is director of the Rutland Free Library in Rutland, Vermont.
PAULA BAXTER: "For this library, we've run at a deficit for the last two years, and next year we're looking at a larger deficit amount."
Paula Baxter says people still come to the library to borrow books and movies. But now they can also download e-books. And they can find electronic resources to help with things like homework or finding a job. Yet many people have a common reaction to all of the services that the library offers.
PAULA BAXTER: "The eyes light up and click. It happens -- 'I didn't know you had this.'"
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Jenny Johnson is the executive director of marketing for the Online Computer Library Center. The center is a nonprofit organization that helps libraries around the world. Ms. Johnson says there have been a lot of marketing campaigns to increase the use of libraries, but not to increase the funding of libraries.
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