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Getting Ready In the children's room they were already busy booking class visits. 
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Getting Ready And the reference desk was busy organizing volunteers. 
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Getting Ready Director of Libraries Pat Hodapp, getting ready to arrange the refreshments. 
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Getting Ready Preparing the Ribbon 
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Getting Ready The 7-day books, ready. 
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Getting Ready In the stacks, ready. 
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Getting Ready Giant piñata in the children's room. 
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Getting Ready Food trays, biscochitos, punch... 
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Getting Ready Computer terminals in the children's room 
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Getting Ready The crowd assembles outside 
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Now!! The ribbon cutting 
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Now!! The ribbon cutting |
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Open, we are open. This is when it really happened. The people swarm in. There are supposed to be speeches, but they let everyone wander around for about 10 minutes first, admiring the place. 
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The contractor's foreman and the man who sent us photos every week with the architects' reports admire the donor wall at the entrance . 
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Speeches and speeches Arthur Sze, Santa Fe's Poet Laureate, reads. 
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New Mexico's First Lady, Barbara Richardson, speaks. There were many speeches. People were just so moved by our beautiful library, and each speaker thanked lots of other people for their role in helping it happen. It was just about the warmest and most cheerful 'official' occasion you have ever seen. Even the people who were there to finally check out one particular book or DVD waited happily and patiently until the formalities were over, applauding and smiling. At about this point the camera began to lose power, and couldn't cope with the light from those picture windows. So we don't have photos of them. 
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First new library card 
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The public swarms to the circulation desk. 
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