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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thank you for the responses. It’s the priciest item on our renewal list, but a straw poll of local library staff indicates lack of use and lack of interest in use.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> LIBRARYDIR <librarydir-bounces@lists.ctc.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jacquelyn Ray via LIBRARYDIR<br>
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<b>Cc:</b> Jacquelyn Ray <jacquelyn.ray@wwcc.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] [LIBRARYDIR] [SPAM] Re: OCLC FirstSearch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"> I decided to cancel it this next year. It was used so infrequently, I think I assessed that it was costing us about $300 a usage. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Jacquelyn Ray, MLIS, MA | Director of Library Services & FYE |
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Walla Walla Community College<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"> Hope, as an ontological need, demands an anchoring in practice.</span></i><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">We need critical hope the way a fish needs unpolluted water.</span></i><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Cc:</b> Dawn Hawley <<a href="mailto:dhawley@btc.edu">dhawley@btc.edu</a>><br>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Hello All,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">How is your library using OCLC FirstSearch these days?<o:p></o:p></p>
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