<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Good Afternoon,</span><br></p><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></p><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Library cooperative directors, please feel free to share this with your member libraries.</span></p><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Karina Boyd at new MAP partner Steam Railroading Institute in Owosso <a href="https://www.michigansteamtrain.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.michigansteamtrain.com/</a> wanted everyone to know that SRI volunteer staff are ready, willing, and able to present free programs in Michigan public libraries. A list of available programs is included in Karina's email below. Please note that I have neither seen nor vetted any of the programs.</span></p><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">How about a holiday season program (or, Holiday in July?) "History of Pere Marquette 1225, and its involvement in "The Polar Express", followed by a showing of the movie itself? The latter of course is dependent on two things:</span></p><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">1. Your library has a public performance license to show movies from either <a href="https://www.swank.com/movie-licensing-usa" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.swank.com/movie-licensing-usa</a> (discounted bulk license might be available through your library cooperative; TLN has such an agreement) or <a href="https://www.mplc.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.mplc.org/</a> </span></p><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">and</span></p><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">2. The Polar Express is included in the list of movies that can be shown with your library's specific public performance license (I didn't do the legwork to verify).</span></p><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Karina Boyd's contact info is included below. Tell her Jim @ MAP sent you馃槅</span></p><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Thanks.</span></p><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Jim</span></p><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"><br></p><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'verdana' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Hello Jim,</span></p><p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'verdana' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:10pt">We don't generally charge for these presentations, but any and all donations to the Steam Railroading Institute are always welcome! And that may be mentioned during the presentations also, but no, we have no set fee for our programs.</span></p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'verdana' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Karina Boyd</span></p><p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'verdana' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Membership and Merchandise Coordinator</span></p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'verdana' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Steam Railroading Institute</span></p><p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'verdana' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:10pt">PO Box 665</span></p><p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'verdana' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:10pt">405 S Washington St</span></p><p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'verdana' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Owosso, MI 48867</span></p><p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'verdana' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> <span style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;display:inline !important;float:none">Office: </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT34126_com_zimbra_phone" style="color:#005a95;text-decoration:none;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff"><a style="color:#005a95;text-decoration:none">(989) 725-9464</a></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;display:inline !important;float:none"> Ext 8</span></span></p><p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'verdana' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:10pt">karinab@michigansteamtrain.com</span></p><br><p style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px">Here is a list of presentations we have available or are working on now, and we have volunteers and staff who are willing to travel anywhere in the state to give them! They can be ready with a few days' notice, and you can contact us at the general number or my direct number.</p><p class="v1MsoNormal" style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px">Here's a list of ready-to-go presentations we have. We always try to throw in a few slides about local railroad history whenever we can. </p><p class="v1MsoNormal" style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"> </p><p class="v1MsoListParagraph" style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px">路 How Steam Engines Work - there is also the option to make this presentation more classroom-based for children, with table-top steam toys included with the demonstration.</p><p class="v1MsoListParagraph" style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px">路 History of Pere Marquette 1225, and its involvement in "The Polar Express" movie</p><p class="v1MsoListParagraph" style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px">路 History of Chicago & North Western #175, and our Restoration plans for it</p><p class="v1MsoListParagraph" style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px">路 Train Robberies in Michigan</p><p class="v1MsoListParagraph" style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px">路 History of Railroad Fan Trips from 1937</p><p class="v1MsoNormal" style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px"> </p><p class="v1MsoNormal" style="color:#000000;font-family:'verdana' , 'geneva' , sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;margin:0px">We have one volunteer who has a lot of information about how Railroads are connected to ski lifts and skiing resorts, and he is working on a presentation centered around that.</p></div><br><div>Jim Flury<br>Technical Services Manager<br>The Library Network<br>41365 Vincenti Court<br>Novi, MI 48375<br>248-536-3100, ext 133<br>Fax 248-536-3098<br>Note New Email Address:jflury@tln.org</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>