<div dir="ltr">Good morning!<div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>I wanted to share the final numbers with you for LBPH:</div><div><ul><li>128 readers registered</li><li>65 individuals tracked</li><li>379 badges have been earned</li><li>24 book reviews were written</li><li>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><br></div><div>The top 3 books read by LBPH patrons:</div><div><ul><li>Finding Serendipity - read 28 times</li><li>Call of the Wild - read 23 times</li><li>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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Ashley</div><div><br></div><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"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;border-collapse:collapse">
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<p style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Ashley M. Biggs</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>
<i>Outreach Librarian</i><br>Maryland State Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped<br>Maryland State Library<br>415 Park Avenue<br>Baltimore, Maryland 21201-3603<br>
<br>410-230-2430 (office) | 667-209-1563 (cell) | 410-333-2095 (fax)<br>
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