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IN THIS ISSUE President’s Report
President’s Report
Extraordinary Times,
Extraordinary People .................1
Message from
the President-Elect ....................2
SLA-CNY: The Discussion List
of SLA-NY ..................................4
Web Information ............................4
SLA Time-Warp
From Sorrow to Celebration ......5
Chapter Member Ellis Mount
Writes a Mystery Novel ..............6
Cry Our Beloved Libraries .............7
Knowledge Services – Critical
Infrastructure Protection ............8
Transform your Career
SLA Career Day 2002 ................9
SLA-NY’s New Project to Aid
Int’l Special Libraries ...............10
SLA-NY Global Outreach Library
Supplies Request Form ...........11
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Chapter Services .........................12
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ChapterNews
Volume 74, #2 Winter 2001
Extraordinary Times,
Extraordinary People
Marty Cullen, President
t Lehman Brothers we have a firm belief that our company’s most important
A asset is our people. They travel up and down the elevators to go to work,
and at the end of the day leave the building and go home. Never has this
been more crystal clear since the September 11th attacks.
Many of us lost friends, family and colleagues that day. In my last column for
ChapterNews, I wrote about my experience and how we can honor those who
were killed. In subsequent months, I have seen people at work and members
of the Chapter come together in superlative fashion. I have seen the best in
people who have really risen to the occasion.
That is one thing that these extraordinary times have offered us – to see people’s
potential realized when a lot is at stake and the times are trying. On the Chapter
level we have great talent. At our recent Chapter meeting, Jeff DeCagna had to
bow out from speaking due to a restructuring at headquarters in Washington.
Without skipping a beat, we were able to draw upon one of our own members
Cliff Perry, Director of Warburg, Pincus’s library, to speak on safety and security
in emergencies.
After the September 11th attacks there was a great impetus for the Chapter
to meet and honor our three members who were killed – Helen Belilovsky, of
Fred Alger Management, and Maureen Olson and Margaret Orloske, of Marsh
McLennan. Thanks to Pam Rollo and Amy Cohen of Credit Suisse First Boston
for pulling together and hosting what many members told me was the most
moving event they had ever attended. Roberta Schaffer, our new Executive
Director, and a number of members of the Washington D.C. Chapter were
in attendance and lent tremendous moral support.
On November 27, 2001, part II to the October meeting, entitled “Rebuilding &
Re-engineering, Disaster Recovery/ Preparedness” was moderated by Carol Gins-
burg, MD, Deutsche Bank with a panel consisting of Susan Adinolfi, Director,
VP, Merrill Lynch and my boss Tom Fearon, Director, VP, Lehman Brothers.
All three were directly affected by September 11th and had the incredibly daunt-
ing task of putting their operations back together.
On December 4, 2001, our annual Holiday Party was held at the Grand Hyatt.
This year, because of the unprecedented circumstances from September 11th,
the Executive Board significantly lowered the cost of the event. It’s yet another
way to honor the most important part of SLA – it’s members.
All in all, we are going about our lives in a more purposeful manner but with
heavy hearts. We have not cancelled one event and each event has been memo-
rable and rewarding. The most patriotic thing we can do right now is to work
hard to help our companies and institutions succeed.
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information to the people for whom power means a lot.”
So said Catherine A. Jones back in 1994.*
And that, in a nutshell, is what we’re all about!
Thanks to the good work of our President, Marty Cullen,
and our Past President, Martha Schweitzer, who provid-
ed the leadership we needed after September 11th, we’re
now ready to roll up our sleeves and get back to work.
It’s time to move on.
The way things are, and how they can be, is completely
up to us. Let’s heed today’s cautionary words: If you’re
not ahead, you’re behind.
We’re not about to fall behind. As I prepare for my role
as the Chapter’s President, I realize that the best way I
can serve you – and we can work together – is for me to
act as the conduit for some of the best that comes to us
from the association’s Strategic Learning and Develop-
ment Center in Washington. Using that mindset, I want
to help us figure out how each of us can grow and pros-
per within each of our enterprises.
My goal is to establish an active dialogue with Corvie
Carrington (who manages SLA’s Strategic Learning and
Development Center) about how each of us values our-
selves within the framework of our respective informa-
tion centers, and how our values relate enterprise-wide.
So one question we ask is: What do the letters C / E / O
mean within that context? Obviously, each of us is now
letting go of the “servant/patron” paradigm of bygone
days. We now express ourselves as entrepreneurs and
CEOs of our own organizations, the information centers
for which we have responsibility. And we do this not only
with the department heads and officers of our organiza-
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Think about the following:

▲ How am I, as the manager of my
information facility, perceived?
▲ What action(s) must I take to change or
enhance those positive perceptions?
▲ What is my information “vision,” and
how do I make it more viable to my users?

What do I advise?
Let’s get our of our comfort zones and begin – with the
help of our parent organizations – to “walk the talk.”
For us, as our own information center’s CEO, let’s have
the C stand for Creativity, the E for Energy, and the O
for, naturally, Optimism.
And there’s more to come. I’m scheduled to attend
“Innovative Information Services,” put together by SLA
Strategic Learning and Development Center, in Chica-
go. I’ll let you know what I find out!

* Cited in Power and Influence: Enhancing Information

Services Within the Organization, by Guy St. Clair
(Bowker-Saur, 1994, p. 59).

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SLA Time-Warp: the surprise of being so horribly attacked and to question
why, but also deciding, what do we do now?
From Sorrow to Celebration This last question was addressed in what was both a mov-
Sandra Kitt, ing and riveting New York Chapter Meeting in Novem-
Richard S. Perkin Collection ber co-sponsored with the Business and Finance Group.
American Museum of Natural History Titled “Rebuilding and Re-engineering: Disaster Recovery/
Preparedness”, it was billed as a program to discuss what
many information professionals had to do in order to get
eptember 11, 2001 will forever be one of those piv-

S otal points in time where each and every one of us

remembers exactly where we were when the twin
towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan
collapsed: like the assassination of Kennedy and King. It
is interesting to note that each occasion was marked by
enormous tragedy. Likewise, our healing and recovery
and ability to move on will be noted for the spirit in
which we found the best in ourselves to help get through
the loss of thousands of lives, and the disruption of our
routines.
We are all aware of the obvious heroes of the World
Trade Center disaster. For a long time into the future we
will continue to add names to that list, of lesser known
people and events which demonstrate our strength and
resilience. Even in SLA we have had occasion to mourn
the loss of several colleagues, and to reflect not only on
their businesses operational, ASAP. However, it turned
out to be much more than that.
After an introduction by Chapter President Marty
Cullen and moderator for the evening, Carol Ginsburg,
MD, Deutsche Bank, the first speaker Tom Fearon, VP,
Lehman Brothers, began by recounting the moments
immediately preceding and following the crash of two
hijacked commercial airliners into the North and South
Towers of the World Trade Center. More than one hun-
dred Chapter attendees listened in absolute silence as we
again heard the details of people trying to get out of their
offices, notifying family, or of colleagues helping each
other.
The second speaker, Susan Adinolfi, Director and VP,
Merrill Lynch was not at the site, but supervised an office
of workers with whom she had to try to communicate by
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phone. Adinolfi admitted honestly that her first thoughts Chapter Member
were of her many employees and a concern for their safe-
ty. In Brooklyn at the time of the incident, she felt an Writes a Mystery Novel
overwhelming sense of helplessness and confusion. Like
so many of us, she wondered if the world might be com-
ing to an end.
This fall, Ellis Mount, a SLA New York chapter member,
Adinolfi and Fearon took turns speaking, recounting
wrote a mystery novel, entitled Mapped for Murder. The
September 11th in a chronological fashion. Their stories
novel’s main character is a special librarian, who lives in
built up tension as each of us in the audience re-lived the
New York City. When she and her husband find an
horrifying moments and our own experiences. Both
ancient and valuable map, they become ensnared in a
speakers concluded with what they had to do immediate-
web of intrigue, seduction and murder, as a treacherous
ly to get their business up and running for their clients
thief - who will stop at nothing to get the map – begins
on the local and international levels. Just hours after the
to pursue them.
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Lehman offices had to re-establish headquarters in the Mapped for Murder ($13.95) may be purchased online at
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But the point was clearly made – they got it together, and
got back to work. This was very much in keeping with
the dictates of President Bush, that our best course of
action as citizens is to go on with our lives.
Fast forward several months and we found ourselves in
the midst of the holiday season. I don’t think there was
ever a question as to whether the Chapter would hold its
annual Holiday Party. Getting back to normal (or some
semblance of it) meant continuing with plans for the one
yearly event that all SLA members look forward to. It is
not a time of business or networking, but kicking back
and being social. On a much deeper level it was also rec-
ognizing that we are survivors.
As usual, people stood in clusters with drinks, meeting
and greeting one another. I don’t recall hearing any talk
or reference to September 11th, and that was as it should
have been. There was laughter, munching, and a lot of
talk of holiday plans...and unspoken resolutions for the
coming new year. There was no need for it to be said,
but it was also a cathartic evening in which all of the
Chapter members were no doubt thinking and feeling
the same thing...we were very glad to be there.

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Cry Our Beloved Libraries
David Nyakundi, World Library Partnership
Edited by Lois Weinstein,
L. Weinstein Consulting LLC

t’s chilly in the morning with temperatures of 5 degrees

I Celsius, as it is the winter season in South Africa. It is

around 7:30 AM and the students are running to get to
school before the assembly bell rings and classes start for
another busy week.
Three young students are walking on a footpath that
leads to a tarmac, while Arthur and I have set out from
our flat in Dirkiesdorp, Mpumalanga province in the
Republic of South Africa. We are staying in accommoda-
tions there while we serve as volunteer librarians with the
World Library Partnership (WLP). The young ones are
busy with lesson recognition – one is singing, while oth-
ers are either answering the song or dancing and moving
in order to warm themselves. The singing and dancing
helps to move them a bit faster toward school.
The students have no school textbooks, but they do carry
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Knowledge Services
Critical Infrastructure
Protection: A Post-9/11
Scenario for Special Librarians
Guy St. Clair
he tragic events of September 11th and the subse-
T quent efforts of the White House in organizing
the Office of Homeland Security have brought
home a stark reality: as a society, we have not given
enough attention to critical infrastructure protection.
We’ve now been made aware that much more must be
done to ensure that our country’s infrastructure is made
less vulnerable. Whether we’re talking about the physical
infrastructure of buildings and railroads and sewers and
bridges, or the IT structures that support our work in
information management, everything we use must now
be looked at in a new light.
This is not a particularly earth-shaking idea, but it is one
we’re now recognizing has not been given enough atten-
tion. Of course we did some things. We’ve had our emer-
gency preparedness programs, and practically every com-
pany has some sort of crisis management plan in place, so
that when incidents do occur, everyone on the premises
knows what to do.
Suddenly, though, we need to do more. We’ve now realized
(along with senior management in our organizations)
that we must set up programs that are more sophisticated
and more well known (and well-broadcast). And, as much
as anything else, we need to “re-set” our brains and those
of our colleagues to accept the fact that being prepared
isn’t something we do when we can “get around to it.”
Being prepared is no longer an option.
Establishing that preparation is a valuable knowledge
services opportunity for special librarians and informa-
tion managers. It’s the kind of work we do best, and
being involved in the organization’s planning for critical
infrastructure protection is a task that is made to order
for those in our branch of the profession who want to
make a serious (and recognized) contribution in the
workplace. Popularly abbreviated as “CIP” (not with-
standing our own use – as librarians – of that acronym),
critical infrastructure protection requires that organiza-
tions set up procedures and practices that permit knowl-
edge development and knowledge sharing (KD/KS) at all
levels of the organization. It’s done for the express pur-
pose of ensuring that the organization is prepared for
incidents such as those at the World Trade Center and
The Pentagon on September 11th. Special librarians and
information managers are uniquely qualified to be part
of, if not to lead this effort.
ChapterNews
Here’s how we do it:
▲ Identify CIP leaders. Find out who in the organization
has responsibility for CIP, and make yourself known to
them, particularly to those in leadership positions. Let
them know that you and your team in the special library/
information center have the knowledge services
expertise to ensure that the CIP program works. Let
them know that you can make their lives easier (and
you can make them look good while you’re at it!).
▲ Bring in IT and HR. Ensure that leaders in these
departments know about the CIP effort. And actively
solicit their participation (you need IT because they
support the “pipeline” through which information
flows, and you need HR because - in most organiza-
tions – training and development programs are con-
trolled through HR).
▲ Set up the CIP team. Work with management to set
up a group (“task force,” “working group,” “commit-
tee” – it doesn’t matter what you call it) and volunteer
to lead the effort [don’t wait to be asked!]. No one in
the organization is better qualified than the special
librarians to lead this effort but, alas, they do not
always get asked. If you can take the leadership posi-
tion, take it.
▲ Keep the group small – no more than one person
from each of the major divisions or departments.
Break the group into three “teams,” each of which can
look at different aspects of the plan. These will gener-
ally be divided into these categories:
▲ Identify what information should be developed (if it
does not already exist) and shared. This is the infor-
mation management “piece” of knowledge services,
and special librarians are the experts in this area. For
example, some organizations might want to have a
basic checklist of steps employees can take in an emer-
gency situation. Other organizations will want to have
a list of “top 10” or “must-do” preparations for all
employees to have in place, before an incident occurs.
Other organizations might want to develop a glossary,
lexicon, or taxonomy, and make it available, to ensure
that all employees understand what’s being talked
about when they undertake CIP activities. Whatever
information is decided upon, specialist librarians are
the ones who know how to find it, how to evaluate it,
how to analyze it, and how to get it in usable form for
the identified audience group.
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▲ Determine the broadcast methodology for sharing
information, and for changing the organizational
Transform Your Career–
culture (if necessary) into one in which information SLA Career Day 2002
sharing is considered mission critical, in terms of Clifford Perry,
organizational success. This is the knowledge man- Warburg Pincus LLC
agement component of knowledge services, and it is
the people-to-people “ingredient” that provides the
foundation for successful information sharing. For hether you are thinking of changing careers or
example, some companies may be satisfied with hav-
ing the information available on the corporate
intranet; the corporate culture in others may require a
W simply brushing up on your interviewing skills,
Career Day 2002 has just what you are looking
for. Since this event attracts individuals who are in vari-
less (or more) formal method for ensuring that infor- ous stages of their professional career, we will have
mation is shared. Perhaps a monthly “quiz” for all speakers covering a wide range of career-based topics.
employees is the best way to make sure awareness is Have your resume handy because we will have employ-
raised. In some companies that would work, in others ment agencies ready to talk to you. Not sure what type of
it would not. You have to decide what’s best in your special library you want to work in? Speak to active pro-
specific environment, but whatever you decide, fessionals from a variety of fields at the Career Café.
remember that it’s the specialist librarians who know How about going back to school? Talk to the representa-
what questions to ask. Don’t minimize your role in the tives of the library schools from the greater metropolitan
process. area.
▲ Establish training/learning programs so that all
Come visit us at
employees know how to gain access to any CIP infor-
The Lighthouse International
mation they need. This is, obviously, the strategic
CAREER DAY
learning “leg” of the “three-legged stool” that consti-
April 6, 2002
tutes knowledge services, and it’s the mechanism that’s
Noon - 4pm
used to ensure that people are not only aware they
have to be prepared, but are shown how to be pre- Volunteers are still needed. Come in for just a few hours
pared. Your organization has training programs for all and work in the Café or at registration or simply help us
sorts of other activities, so why not one for CIP? set up. No resume required!
Again, this is a perfect fit for specialist librarians and
information managers, because we have a broad Contact Cliff Perry by e-mail: cperry@warburgpincus.com,
overview of who the company’s employees are, the or phone (212) 878-9314.
kinds of information they look for, the levels of infor-
mation they require, and how they use it. If we fold
our knowledge about the company’s employees into
the company’s CIP training efforts, and if we combine
that with our own knowledge of how people learn,
how they use what they learn, and how they build on
what they learn, our contribution to the organization’s
CIP program can be pretty impressive.
And there’s a final result: In terms of what’s happening in
our country today, in terms of terrorism and war and all
the awful emotional trauma we’re experiencing, everyone
wants to be “doing something.” If we special librarians –
as professionals – can get involved (or preferably lead)
our organization’s preparedness for the next incident, we
are, indeed, “doing something.” We’re using our profes-
sional expertise to make things better than they were,
and there couldn’t be a more important job than that.
Guy St. Clair is Consulting Specialist, Knowledge Management &
Learning, SMR International, New York, NY. A past president of
the Special Libraries Association and of the New York Chapter,
St. Clair actively solicits readers’ responses to this column. He
can be reached at GuyStClair@cs.com
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SLA-NY’s New Project port the purchase and shipment of library supplies to the
requesting library. If the project does not become self-
to Aid International supporting in three years, it will be cancelled.
Special Libraries How You Can Help:
Lois Weinstein, President, ▲ Call or e-mail either Lilleth Newby (212-447-2981 or
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eginning in 2002, those attending the SLA-NY

B Chapter meetings will notice something new – a

raffle table! At each meeting, tickets will be sold by
the newly formed SLA-NY Global Outreach Committee
▲ Promote this project within your divisions of SLA and
through any other means to reach the widest audience
of international special librarians possible.
(GOC), and a winner chosen that night. The winner will Lois and Lilleth believe that this project will help the
get a prize, but international special libraries in underde- chapter to expand its outreach program to include aid for
veloped countries will get an even bigger prize – a ship- countries that want to have special libraries, but have
ment of much needed library supplies. funding difficulties. It will offer them a new method of
This project is the result of experiences that Lilleth Newby requesting and receiving library supplies. It also offers
and Lois Weinstein had. Lilleth, a participant in the SLA-NY a way to become more involved in the interna-
Inform the World program of the World Library Part- tional focus of the association and an additional way in
nership, worked with a rural community library in which the SLA-NY members can serve the Chapter.
Zimbabwe in the summer of 1999, and in the summer
of 2001 visited and discussed the provision of assistance
with the Medical Library of the Medical School, Univer-
sity of Addis Ababa and the National Library of Ethiopia.
Based on a request that Lois received, she arranged
for and delivered supplies to a library in Panajachel, Your Source for Skilled
Guatemala. Both Lilleth and Lois saw first-hand how
hard librarians try to serve their patrons and how much Information Navigators
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to do something proactive about the needs of special temp-to-hire, and direct hire placements.
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At each general SLA-NY meeting, the GOC will sell raffle
tickets that will cost $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00. The win-
ner will be chosen at each meeting and receive a gift that
is either purchased or donated by a sponsor. No more
than 15% of the funds raised by the sale of the raffle tick-
ets will be used for overhead (tickets and gifts). 85% or www.infocurrent.com
more of the funds raised by the raffle will be used to sup-
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 SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION NEW YORK CHAPTER
SLA-NY Global Outreach Library Supplies Request Form

Name:

Title:

Library Name:

Street Address:

City, Zip+4:

Country:

Phone:

Fax:

e-mail: (if available)

What library supplies do you need? (Please be specific and no more than five (5) items).

Why are you requesting these supplies and how will they help your library?

What is the per capita income for your country?

Note: This aid is not available to countries that the United States Government has stated are aiding or harboring terrorists.

Please return this form by mail or e-mail to either one of the following people:

▲ Lilleth Newby, Director HIV Resource Library ▲ Lois Weinstein

455 First Avenue, Room 1233, Box 81 L. Weinstein Consulting LLC
New York, NY 10016 117 Louisiana Avenue
Telephone: (212 )447-8236/2981 Bay Shore, NY 11706
Fax: (212) 447-8239 Telephone: (631) 839-7007
e-mail: lnewby@health.nyc.gov or lillethnewby@cs.com Fax: (631) 969-7818
e-mail: loisweinstein@hotmail.com

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New!
Membership Privileges in
the Midtown Executive and
Chemists’ Club for SLA New York
Chapter Members
Martha Schweitzer
he benefits of membership in the New York Chap-
T ter expanded in November to include membership
privileges in The Midtown Executive and
Chemists’ Club. The Club is located at 40 West 45th
Street in Midtown Manhattan between Fifth and Sixth
Avenues. These privileges include:
▲ Catering and Conference Facilities for business
meetings, social occasions, and special events
▲ Hotel accommodations at low rates
▲ Domestic and international reciprocal clubs
▲ Special arrangements with transportation service,
local parking and athletic facilities
The appeal of joining a club grew from the need for a
central gathering place for informal and formal meetings
of Chapter working groups. Membership in The Mid-
town Executive & Chemists’ Club not only gives us a
place where we can meet and network, but it also pro-
vides benefits useful to members individually in their
professional lives. The facilities give us a welcoming sit-
ting room for informal meetings and a place to relax
between appointments. The elegant Dining Room pro-
vides good food in a tranquil setting. There is a confer-
ence room and larger meeting rooms we can use. The
Club accepts all major credit cards.
Members have access to the hotel rooms provided by
Club Quarters. Members are also able to enjoy reciprocal
privileges at Club Quarters in Downtown Manhattan,
Boston, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and London as
well as at many other private clubs in the United States
and internationally.
The New York Chapter joined The Midtown Executive
& Chemists’ Club under a corporate membership, which
began November 1, 2001. This membership is available
to members of the New York Chapter, and it will run for
a year. Since this is new to us and is somewhat experi-
mental, the Chapter’s Executive Board has signed on for
a limited number of members initially, with the option of
increasing that number should the response from our
membership require it. For the first ones to sign up, the
contribution requested from Chapter members to join
the club under our corporate membership is only $8.50.
ChapterNews
An e-mail notice has gone out to Chapter members to
tell them about this new opportunity. The response has
been quick and very favorable.
It’s easy to sign up.
All you need to do is send your business card with your
address, telephone number(s) and e-mail address along
with a check for $8.50 made out to “SLA New York
Chapter” to:
Sarah L. Warner, Treasurer, SLA-NY Chapter
Wontawk
25 West 43rd Street, Suite 812
New York, N.Y. 10036
sarahwarner@usa.net
Tel: 212-869-3348
Shortly after Sarah receives your check, a membership
packet and card will arrive in the mail from our contact
at the Club, Noel Namuco.
If you have any questions about membership in the Club,
please send them to me, Martha Schweitzer, at
connectdot@hotmail.com or call me at 516-944-9738.
Chapter Services
Membership in the New York Chapter provides so many
benefits, it might be beneficial to remind everyone of
some of the Chapter’s services:
SLA-NY web site: http://www.sla.org/chapter/cny
Job Hotline: telephone (212) 439-7290
SLA New York Chapter Listserv: to subscribe to SLA-
CNY, send a message to lists@lists.sla.org:
Chapter and Division meetings. Watch for announce-
ments on the Chapter’s web site, listserv, through snail-
mail and in ChapterNews. The season kicks off in the fall
and will include something for everyone!
Chapter Christmas Party. The kick-off for the holiday
season. An absolute must for all Chapter members!
Career Day. This event, held in the Spring, gets bigger
and better every year. Characterized as a “one-stop
career shopping” event it’s a great way to learn about new
jobs, talk to library students just entering the field and
examine new career options.This is just the “short list.”
Membership in the New York Chapter helps us stay in
touch, stay active, stay informed.
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