<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Good morning!</span><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Well, we have finished with the Winter Reading Challenge! We are truly humbled and delighted by the response to this challenge. The support shown for this program is astounding and very humbling. Thank you to everyone who participated, to everyone that supported, and to everyone who shared in this great event. You are amazing!</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I wanted to share the final numbers with you for LBPH:</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">128 readers registered</li><li style="margin-left:15px">65 individuals tracked</li><li style="margin-left:15px">379 badges have been earned</li><li style="margin-left:15px">24 book reviews were written</li><li style="margin-left:15px">240, 758 minutes were read</li></ul><div>Our initial goal was 50, 000 minutes - we beat that by 4.8 times! </div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The top 3 books read by LBPH patrons:</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">Finding Serendipity - read 28 times</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Call of the Wild - read 23 times</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Diary of a Wimpy Kid - read 21 times</li></ul><div>Across the country, individuals read 10.3 million minutes and 146K books! </div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">We will let you know where LBPH fell in national rankings when the final numbers are released. Prize notifications for raffle winners are going out soon, so keep an eye out. They will be sent individually. </div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Best,</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Ashley</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-size:12.8px;border-collapse:collapse;border:none"><tbody><tr><td width="102" valign="top" style="width:76.5pt;border-top:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-right:1pt solid windowtext;padding:0in 5.4pt"><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:5pt"><br></span> <img src="cid:ii_14e8cd7de7082e4b" width="90" height="96"></p></td><td width="234" valign="top" style="width:175.5pt;border:none;padding:0in 5.4pt"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">LaShawn Myles </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.6667px">Youth Services Librarian</span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Maryland State Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Maryland State Library</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">415 Park Avenue</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Baltimore, Maryland 21201-3603</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="tel:(410)%20230-2454" value="+14102302454" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">410-230-2455</a> (office)</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="tel:(410)%20333-2095" value="+14103332095" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">410-333-2095</a> (fax)</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a href="mailto:lashawn.myles@maryland.gov" style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif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