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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Director of Georgetown County Library
Recognized Nationally <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Columbia, S.C. –
South Carolina’s first winner of the “I Love My Librarian
Award” presented annually by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and by
the New York Times to only 10 librarians nationally is Georgetown County
Library Director Dwight McInvaill.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Learning of the honor,
McInvaill said, “I do not consider myself to be particularly loveable.
But I am dedicated to making life better for our citizens. We are living in a
period of great technological and social change. Libraries need to continually
innovate and to experiment to stay relevant and serve their communities. That
is what we have tried to do at the Georgetown County Library. To have been
nominated by local folks for this award is a true honor, and I can promise
local residents that we will not rest on our laurels, but roll up our
shirtsleeves and keep working for them.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>“This award honors
the significant relationship between library users and librarians. It also
recognizes these 10 librarians for the notable impact they have on the lives of
the people they serve and on their communities,” said American Library
Association President Jim Rettig.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>During the past several
years, the library has coordinated a unique collaboration with nine other local
cultural agencies and created the Georgetown County Digital Library (<a
href="http://www.gcdigital.org">www.gcdigital.org</a>) to preserve its
community’s history. This work – underwritten recently by a grant
from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation – has resulted in an
online collection with over 17,000 items including historic photographs, maps,
and Nineteenth Century newspapers. Images from the collection were used this
fall by the television show “Anderson Cooper 360” to assist in the
production of a documentary on the Lowcountry ancestors of First Lady Michelle
Obama. The site receives about 5,000 hits daily worldwide.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>“Go to the Georgetown
County Digital Library website,” said John Sands, Lowcountry Director,
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, “and you will find pictures of
Bernard Baruch, Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But more
importantly, you will find pictures of the servants who prepared their meals,
the hunting guides who took them into the remarkable Lowcountry, and the houses
where they raised their families. When Anderson Cooper 360 prepared a segment
on Michelle Obama’s family roots as slaves on an antebellum plantation in
Georgetown County, the research staff found the images that illustrated the
story through the county’s digital library. Without those images, the
story and our collective understanding would have been vastly less valuable.
Without Dwight McInvaill’s vision and willingness to take a chance on a
new concept that would serve his community, there would have been no digital
library.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>To combat at its roots a
county illiteracy rate approaching 30%, the library has established – in
concert with Georgetown County First Steps – collections of books in
approximately 40 childcare centers. The library has also developed a special
curriculum which a library storyteller uses to teach youngsters basic language
and motor skills. The library also offers childcare providers quarterly
training sessions for accreditation. For this work, the library received in
2003 the first “Counties Care for Kids Award” given by the National
Association of Counties.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The library also addresses
teen illiteracy and a local high-school dropout rate that has approached 38% by
having a countywide interactive gaming program at all of its four facilities.
To participate in this endeavor – which is funded by a major grant from
the Frances P. Bunnelle Foundation – teens must register for library
cards and check out library materials regularly. They must also attend library
programs on topics ranging from culture to technology. Most importantly, they
must remain in school and maintain good grades.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>In 2007, the Georgetown
County Library became South Carolina’s first – and so far only
– library recognized nationally by the federal Institute of Museum and
Library Services for a National Medal for Library Service. Then First Lady
Laura Bush noted in a White House ceremony that this library has emerged as a
national treasure by inspiring residents to embrace their heritage and to dream
of a bright future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Dwight McInvaill has served
as the Director of the Georgetown County Library since January 1996. During
the last year, he earned his library about $1.3 million dollars in grants and
usually averages about $300,000 in grants annually. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>According to an economic
impact study by the University of South Carolina in 2005, there was almost a
350% return on the state’s total investment in South Carolina’s
public libraries. Also, more than 13.8 million people visited South Carolina’s
public libraries annually – approximately, 10 million more than those
attending all USC and Clemson sports events. As McInvaill, noted when
recalling these statistics, “Take that, [Clemson Mascot] Tiger and [USC
Mascot] Cocky! Libraries are Number One!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Each of the “I Love
My Librarian” winners will receive a $5,000 cash award at a ceremony and
reception at the New York Times Building hosted by the New York Times on
December 3, 2009. In addition to Dwight McInvaill, awardees include the following
individuals: Sol A. Gomez of Tucson, Arizona; Laura Grunwerg of River Edge,
New Jersey; Lucy Hansen of Mercedes, Texas; Alice K. Juda of Newport, Rhode
Island; Karen E. Martines of Cleveland, Ohio; Seamus Scanlon of New York, New
York; Dana Thomas of Fort Myers, Florida; Carolyn Wheeler of Bloomfield Hills,
Michigan; and Oceana Wilson of Bennington, Vermont.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Over 3,200 library users
nominated a librarian as part of the Campaign for America’s Libraries
according to the American Library Association’s Public Information
Office. During this third year of the award, nominations were open to
librarians working in public, school, college, community-college, and
university libraries. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Librarians in our
nation’s 123,000 libraries make a difference in the lives of millions of
Americans every day. More information about the I Love My Librarian Award is
available at the <a href="http://www.ilovelibraries.org/ilovemylibrarian">www.ilovelibraries.org/ilovemylibrarian</a>.</span><span
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