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November 29, 2004

Two very cool things from the Hennepin County Library:

• A free online classical music listening library. All you need is a Hennepin County Library card — or, I assume, a Minnesota library card that's in Hennepin's system.
• A Birth-to-Six literacy web site, with age-targeted book lists and early literacy guides. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of reading to kids from an early age.

This library system has been doing such cool things on their web site. The first time I saw that I had 24/7 access to a reference librarian, I about wet myself.

Okay, maybe I wasn't that excited, but there's no question that someone there has a vision for how the Web can fit into a library's mission — and can find the funds to support that vision.