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To everyone who visited this website, Tweeted, liked our and other support pages on Facebook. To those who wore “Ask me about the library millage” t-shirts and Support CADL buttons. To those who handed out flyers, postcards, bookmarks and brochures. To those who understood that communities without libraries are not communities we’d like to live in. To the 71.45% of voters who turned out yesterday to vote YES to keep Capital Area District Libraries OPEN. To CADL employees, families and friends who support Ingham County libraries daily. We are proud to have stood with you in this year’s primary election. Congratulations, you all helped save our libraries.

A new page has been added to supportcadl.org. The Support CADL Toolkit is available here, and includes everything you need to know and have in order to help support the Capital Area District Library millage campaign! The Toolkit outlines how to make an impact in everything from a minute to a day. You can also download and distribute our official flyer, as well as talking points and email templates for informing your friends about the millage.

If you regularly follow our blog, you must know by now how valuable libraries are to their communities. You also understand that the Capital Area District Library has a question on the August 3 ballot asking people in the CADL service area (the vast majority of Ingham County) to renew their existing millage. In all honesty, they’re not asking for a lot – just a straight renewal of their 1.56 mills.*

Ok, back to my point. If this election fails – if the CADL millage does not pass – ALL OF THEIR LIBRARIES WILL REALLY CLOSE.

*Take a look at the Library Use Value Calculator to see just how much you’re paying and how much you’re saving using the library.