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And your name mildred, mildred. So miss mildred. What do you usually come to the library to do? Uh Usually come to the library every week. I come for every other week with the needle crafters. I enjoyed crocheting and knitting. I come a couple of times a

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week sometimes to make t shirts with the vinyl cutter and the innovation lab and I'm learning how to use a three D printer. I've made a mini vice uh with that piece of equipment. The library has so many different things to do. Uh I've edited some

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tapes uh with the digital lab, copied some VHS into digital. Uh and I just enjoy coming to the library. They have a lot of classes and a lot of uh social activities. Also, is there a favorite program or a very memorable program you've been to that

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you like to share and talk about? I guess the the one I like the most is the socializing with the needle crafters. We get together every other week. Uh The group is not always the same, but there's a core group of ladies that get together and

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then we have new ones come in and out and we get to trade patterns and make suggestions, learn new things. It's just a lot of fun. Are you currently working on anything on a project with the needle crafters right now? Yeah. Right now I'm working on

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lap gins for um Sarcoidosis patients. Uh They have some of that last month with this month, the month of april. And uh so I volunteered to make as many purple and white lap gins that I could make from the scrap during that I have at home

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so so far I've made four and I'm on my fifth one now. Um So what would you why don't you walk us through your typical visit to a library? What does that involve? You go look for books or do you just go straight to the programs

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or? Uh Typically when I come in, my first stop is at the bookstore. I have a friend that doesn't have access to the internet and we were taking some courses together and so I would come in and get a resource material from book story. So I

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usually stop there and then I usually come upstairs to either needle crafters or the digital lab or to the innovation lab or even to a course in the computer room and then I may look around for some of the books but most of the books I

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read now our digital get online from the library. So you're using Overdrive. Yes I'm using Overdrive. Are you liking the e book conversions? Yeah I enjoyed the book conversion and that way I can have them with me in the car when I'm going back. I don't

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have to have a big backpack. I can read multiple books at the same time. So I enjoy that. And how often do you come to the library you were saying uh when I'm working on the final cover, I usually come two or three times a week

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if I'm not doing that, then it's usually once a week. And how, how long is your usual typical visit? I usually just come and camp out, stay all day joy having you. Um is there anything your current, any book or movie or anything that you've gotten

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from library that you currently join? You want to share? Have a recommendation book recommendation or anything like that. I was reading the plant Paradox cookbook just to get some suggestions uh on eating healthier. So that that book I would recommend to because I've been as I'm

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getting older, you know, junk food is not good for me. So it wasn't good for me in the beginning, but I'm just looking for a better nutritional value, having my food now and I know you come and use our innovation lab a lot and you have

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a lot of projects working on. Do you want to tell us a little bit about maybe your current project, what you usually make your vinyl cutters for personal business related, anything uh uh, leisure related, uh part of a skating club and we go to different national

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events. We just recently got back from a skating event in Fort Lauderdale and Miami area. And so I was making t shirts for our club, we called skate masters and we normally just have a black and white t shirt on with this year, we decided to

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jazz it up a little bit. So I used the vinyl cutter to make more of a glittery type of presentation of our logo. We have been just using silkscreen. So silk screen is not as fun as uh a lot easier to work with. Yes, yes, it

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is a lot easier. Even my sister and I were my play sister and I are having a birthday next week so she asked me to make something for us to wear on on our shopping trip because we do a shop till you drop. So I've got,

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I made a t shirt that just said come on sister, let's go shop and made that all the vinyl cutter. Also happy early birthday, thank you. Um Have do you think did you use a library a lot as a child as well? More like an adult

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now, you know my mom always had us go to the library, especially in the summertime, the summer reading programs. So I was in a little small town called Athens Tennessee. Um at that time I think there were like only 17,000 people in the county. And so

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uh but we are library was real small. It was really a house that had been turned into a library but it was near the campus of uh whistling college. So once I got used to that then I could go to the college camp when I got

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older, I could go to the college campus and read some of their books there. But I've always loved to read. I've always been a reader and thank God I've got reader's eyes, My ophthalmologist that I've got reader's eyes, I normally take my glasses off to read,

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but I need them to drive and see further in front of me. Usually the opposite, I don't have the opposite glasses to read. Um Do you think, how personal your personal experience do you feel like the library's role in community has changed? But or just what

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Um what over time, what have you noticed the library has become to you? Well, I know when I came here in the 80s we had a smaller library uh on the other side of the parking lot and I went to it a lot also, but it

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didn't have all the options that we have now. Um It seems like in the last four or five years the library has really grown as far as technology in uh getting the Children. I think more interested in in coming to the library other than books and

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things here you can do other than just the books. And how long have you been a Freeman patron? 0 1980, telling my age I came to Houston in 1980 and getting a library card with one of the first things I did you have a paper card

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and they had a paper card. So you have many different rendition of the library card? Yeah, so that's really all the questions I have. Is there anything you want to add or just I just want to encourage everyone in the clear lake area to take advantage

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of everything that's at the library because it's more than just, it's more than just books. It's this, uh, an overall experience here technology wise. And in reading. Well, thank you so much miss mildred. I really appreciate participation.