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  • Thursday, February 25, 2016 8:44 AM | Anonymous

    School librarians from throughout the state of Mississippi gathered on February 5th for the 16th annual MegaResource School Librarian Workshop, hosted and presented by MSU Libraries. This year’s workshop was filled to capacity with others on a waiting list. Attendees took part in various workshops and presentations led by the faculty and staff of Mississippi State University Libraries, as well as guest presenters from local schools and associations across the state.


    The MegaResource School Librarian Workshop series began in 1999 as a series of

    workshops, developed and presented by the Mississippi State University Libraries, for school librarians throughout the state of Mississippi. Designed to cover topics related to technology, instruction, and online databases, these workshops continue to serve as a major outreach effort to the K12 community. 


    Seventysix librarians attended the daylong workshop, where they chose sessions that covered their particular areas of interest. Many of the librarians who attended commented on how helpful the instructional sessions were and how they wished they had time to attend more of them. One attendee commented, “Each session held valuable information - thank you! As a new school librarian of four months, this [workshop] was very helpful to me.”


    “Evaluation comments from last year’s workshop were used during planning for the 2016 workshop,” said Gail Peyton, Associate Dean for Public Services and Coordinator of Outreach Services. “We set a goal to include presentations from school librarians and to have sessions for elementary and secondary school librarians. Another goal was to have participation in some form or another from all areas of the Library. I feel that we accomplished all of these goals.”


    Sessions for the workshop were selected based on the suggestions from the previous year, as well as through a call for participation through the Mississippi Library Association. Topics included MAGNOLIA databases for the elementary classroom, copyright for the K12 library, introduction to the MSU Libraries Special Collections, creating eye-catching flyers in Microsoft Publisher, and iPads in the school library, to name a few.


    MSU Libraries is pleased to serve the community of educators in Mississippi through the MegaResource School Librarian Workshop. For more information on the MegaResource School Librarian Workshop, as well as to view handouts and presentations, please visit http://guides.library.msstate.edu/megaresource.


    About the MSU Libraries:

    Mississippi State University Libraries is a premier research library providing its communities of users an ongoing, creative, technologically advanced library program that provides new and emerging technologies; enhances and inspires teaching, research, and service of the highest caliber in an environment of free and open inquiry and with a commitment to excellence. For more information about MSU Libraries, please visit http://library.msstate.edu/.



    Photo by: Randall McMillen


    Submitted by

    Angela Patton

    Library Associate

    Mississippi State University Libraries


  • Monday, February 15, 2016 6:42 PM | Anonymous

    When Lena de Grummond came to The University of Southern Mississippi to teach children's literature in the School of Library Science in 1965, she envisioned resources that went beyond the classroom textbook. The de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection is the result of one woman’s dream to collect original materials from authors and illustrators of children’s books to use as resources for students in library science. If students could study the creative processes of authors and illustrators by examining the manuscripts and illustrations first hand, she knew they would better appreciate the literature.


    De Grummond became acquainted with a number of authors in her previous position in Louisiana as state superintendent of Louisiana School Libraries, and to accomplish her goal, she sent handwritten letters to them, as well as to her favorite children’s book authors, to request original manuscripts and typescripts, illustrations, sketchbooks, and any materials related to the publication of a children’s book, including galleys, dummies, publisher correspondence and fan mail. At one point, she wrote as many as 100 letters per week. The first to respond were Bertha and Elmer Hader, the husband and wife author-illustrator team, who sent manuscript materials, dummies and illustrations for Ding, Dong, Bell (1957). The contributions from the Haders were soon followed by more from Lois Lenski, Elizabeth Coatsworth and Roger Duvoisin.


    “Dr. de Grummond had a vision, and I have no doubt she knew what she was creating from the very beginning.  She developed relationships with authors and illustrators through correspondence, which is a great legacy for us.  The correspondence with H. A. and Margret Rey shows how their relationship developed through the years.  The personal interest Dr. de Grummond had for the donors was remarkable.  She knew details about their lives, their children’s names, their new projects, etc.  She was sincerely interested in them, and the feeling was mutual,” says Ellen Ruffin, current curator of the collection.


    Founded in 1966, the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection has grown far beyond its original intent, and is now one of the largest such collections in North America. The collection contains the works of more than 1300 authors and illustrators, including Randolph Caldecott, John Newbery, Kate Greenaway, H.A. and Margret Rey and Ezra Jack Keats. These are some of the most celebrated names in children’s literature with Caldecott, Newbery and Greenaway all having prestigious national awards named in their honor, and the Rey’s being the creators of Curious George. Keats, the man behind The Snowy Day, is one of America’s most groundbreaking authors with his efforts to break the color barrier in children’s publishing, and The Snowy Day is considered to be one of the most important American books of the 20th century.


    These original materials are supplemented by a book collection of more than 160,000 volumes of historical and contemporary children's literature and include Aesop’s Fables that date back to 1530, a board game from 1790, more than 100 version of the Cinderella story and the papers of popular young adult author, John Green. Researchers from across the United States, around the world and all disciplines at Southern Miss visit the collection on a regular basis to study its fables, fairy tales, folklore, alphabet books, nursery rhymes, textbooks, religious books, moral tales, fantasy, fiction, primers, and children's magazines. Complementing these holdings are scholarly studies, biographies, bibliographies, and critical works.


    Now 50 years later, de Grummond’s legacy lives on. Her influence remains strong and Ruffin says that she is often quoted in correspondence with potential donors. While the collection is available for use by students at Southern Miss and researchers, Ruffin has pointed her efforts to the development of the collection, and to some degree, de Grummond’s unique style can still be found in those efforts. The growth of the collection ensures its longevity and increases its value to the world of children’s literature.


    Since its founding 50 years ago, the collection has become one of the largest and most well-known collections of children’s literature in the world. Today, the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection hosts numerous world-class exhibits from some of the industries’ most well-known authors and illustrators, including Rosemary Wells and Tasha Tudor. The collection also plays a significant role in the Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival each year by hosting the de Grummond Lecturer and the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award, a national award given to newcomers in children’s literature. 



    McCain Library and Archives, The University of Southern Mississippi.

    Photograph of Dr. Lena de Grummond at her desk.


    Submitted by

    Dawn Smith, M.S.

    Assistant to the Dean for Publicity and Outreach

    University of Southern Mississippi Libraries 

  • Monday, February 15, 2016 6:34 PM | Anonymous

    The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, in partnership with the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi, announced the winners of the 30th annual Ezra Jack Keats Book Award. Each year, a new writer and new illustrator are celebrated. The 2016 award ceremony will be held on April 7th during the Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival at The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. The winners receive a gold medallion as well as an honorarium of $1,000.


    “We are proud to present the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award to the best new talents in children’s illustrated literature each year. These are writers and illustrators whose books reflect the spirit of Keats, and at the same time, are refreshingly original,” said Deborah Pope, Executive Director of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation. “This year is Ezra’s 100th birthday! So we are especially delighted to celebrate him by honoring those whose books, like his, are wonderful to read and look at and reflect our multicultural world.”


    “The Keats Archives at the de Grummond Children’s Collection is a happy reminder of the joy that Ezra’s books have brought to readers and the impact they have had on children’s book makers. Once again, we see that influence in the work of this year’s EJK Book Award winners. We are confident that they’ll join the long list of illustrious past winners whose books continue to delight and make a difference,” said Ellen Ruffin, Curator of the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection.


    Lois Lowry, two-time winner of the Newbery Award for Number the Stars and The Giver, will present this year’s Ezra Jack Keats Book Awards. Michael Cart, columnist/reviewer for Booklist and a leading expert on young adult literature, will deliver the Keats Lecture.


    The 2016 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award winner for new writer is:

    Don Tate for Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton

    Published by Peachtree Publishers


    In the South before the Civil War, it was illegal to teach slaves to read, but George Moses Horton loved words too much to be stopped. He taught himself to read as a child and grew up to be a published poet, while still a slave. Writing about slavery for young readers is challenging but important, and Don Tate succeeds brilliantly, in an engaging, age-appropriate and true narrative.


    Tate said, “Three years ago, I won an Ezra Jack Keats honor award, one of the proudest moments of my career. I never imagined being considered again… this time [for] the top award. There has always been a special place in my heart for Ezra Jack Keats. When he chose to picture brown children in his books, he chose to acknowledge me. I wasn’t invisible to him. As a creator of color in a field that sorely lacks diversity, it can be easy to sometimes feel unseen. This award serves as a reminder to me that I am not invisible and that my work matters.”


    The 2016 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award winner for new illustrator is:

    Phoebe Wahl for Sonya’s Chickens

    Published by Tundra Books


    Sonya’s dad presents her with three baby chicks to care for, and she does her job well, providing food, shelter and lots of love as they grow into hens. Then one night, Sonya discovers that one of her hens is missing! But as her father explains, the fox stole the hen because he loved his kits and needed to feed them. The circle of life is gently and exquisitely depicted in Wahl’s rich and colorful watercolor and collage illustrations of a multicultural family’s life on a farm.


    Wahl said, “Keats’ work stands out as some of the most impactful of my childhood. I can directly trace the roots of my obsession with pattern, color and my use of collage to my affinity with the lacy baby blanket in Peter’s Chair. Keats inspired me to create stories that are quiet and gentle, yet honor the rich inner lives of children and all of the complexity that allows. I am humbled to be associated with Keats’ legacy in being presented with this award, and I am so grateful to the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation and the children’s literature community for this show of support and encouragement.”


    The 2016 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award honor winners are:

    2016 New Writer Honor

    • Julia Sarcone-Roachfor The Bear Ate Your Sandwich(illustrated by Julia Sarcone-Roach. Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers)
    • Megan Dowd Lambertfor A Crow of His Own (illustrated by David Hyde Costello. Published by Charlesbridge)

    2016 New Illustrator Honor

    • Ryan T. Higginsfor Mother Bruce(written by Ryan T. Higgins. Published by Disney Hyperion)
    • Rowboat Watkinsfor Rude Cakes (written by Rowboat Watkins. Published by Chronicle Books)

    To be eligible for the 2016 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award, the author and/or illustrator will have no more than three children’s picture books published prior to the year under consideration. The selection committee is comprised of nationally recognized early childhood education specialists, librarians, illustrators and experts in children’s literature: Carolyn Brodie, Chair; Rita Auerbach, Jason Chin, K.T. Horning, Angela Johnson, Claudette McLinn, Sean Qualls, Caroline Ward, and Paul O. Zelinsky. Ex-Officio members are: Deborah Pope, Executive Director, Ezra Jack Keats Foundation; and Ellen Ruffin, Curator, de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection.


    For a complete list of past award winners, visit www.ezra-jack-keats.org/ezra-jack-keats-award-winners. For information about submissions, visit www.lib.usm.edu/degrummond/ezra_keats.html.


    About the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation

    Founded by the late Caldecott award-winning children’s book author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats, the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation fosters children’s love of reading and creative expression by supporting arts and literacy programs in public schools and libraries; cultivating new writers and illustrators of exceptional picture books that reflect the experience of childhood in our diverse culture; and protecting and promoting the work of Keats, whose book The Snowy Day broke the color barrier in mainstream children’s publishing. Keats. Imagination. Diversity.

    For more about the Foundation, visit www.ezra-jack-keats.org.


    About the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection

    The de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi is one of North America’s leading research centers in the field of children’s literature. The Collection holds the original manuscripts and illustrations of more than 1,300 authors and illustrators, as well as 180,000+ mostly American and British published books dating back to 1530. Since 1985, the de Grummond Collection has been the home of the Ezra Jack Keats Archive, which includes manuscripts, typescripts, sketches, dummies, illustrations and proofs for Ezra Jack Keats’ books.

    For more about the de Grummond, visit www.lib.usm.edu/degrummond.




    Submitted By

    Dawn Smith, M.S.

    Assistant to the Dean for Publicity and Outreach

    University of Southern Mississippi Libraries


  • Monday, February 15, 2016 5:49 PM | Anonymous

    On April 16th, 2016, for two hours Indianola Academy 6th Grade students will impersonate different individuals interred at the Indianola City Cemetery.  A cemetery stroll is a unique and interesting way to teach history and we bring this unusual teaching strategy to the local community.  Last year was the sixth occurrence of Headstone Stories and this year it’s going to be even better.  Using our experiences from previous years and our aspirations for this year, the IA teachers and I have created an outline for the project.  We have coordinated what knowledge and experience the teachers want for the students with what historical materials for research are located in the History Room. The students write an eight paragraph paper concerning the lifetime of the interred, specifically the political atmosphere, the economic and agricultural conditions, and the cultural trends.   The students will make two visits with their class to the History Room, utilizing newspapers, microfilm and books to research these areas for their paper and personal reconstruction and one visit individually.  Then on April 16th, 2016 from 10am to noon at the Indianola City Cemetery, the students will represent the interred to the community.  Entertaining and educating visitors with personal stories, anecdotes of their time period and Indianola history.



    Photograph by Jennifer Rose

    Carolyn Kelley participates in Headstone Stories in the Indianola City Cemetery.


    Submitted by

    Jennifer Rose

    Public History Coordinator

    Sunflower County Library System


  • Monday, February 15, 2016 5:48 PM | Anonymous

    A dual master’s degree is the preferred degree for reference positions at many academic and research libraries. The first online dual degree - MLIS/IT (MS in Library and Information Science/MS in Instructional Technology) is now available at Southern Miss.  Requirements for the dual degree are listed at: http://www.usm.edu/library-information-science/dual-mlis-programs

     

    Application for the dual master’s as well as the MLIS degree, MLIS with school licensure emphasis, Graduate Certificate in Archives and Special Collections and Graduate Certificate in Youth Services and Literature is available online. The Southern Miss School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) is now accepting applications for summer and fall 2016. http://www.usm.edu/graduate-school/apply-graduate-school.

     

    Submitted by

    Teresa Welsh, Ph.D.

    Professor and Director

    School of Library and Information Science

    The University of Southern Mississippi


  • Monday, February 15, 2016 5:45 PM | Anonymous

    The School of Library and Information Science is pleased to announce the 49th annual Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival, to be held April 6-8, 2016, at the Southern Miss Thad Cochran Center. The highlight of the festival is the presentation of the Southern Miss Medallion awarded to an author or illustrator for his or her body of work. The 2016 Southern Miss Medallion winner is Jacqueline Woodson.


    Jacqueline Woodson is the 2014 National Book Award Winner for her New York Times bestselling memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming. The author of more than two dozen books for young readers, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a recipient of the NAACP Image Award, a three-time National Book Award finalist, a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and was recently named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation.


    Other outstanding authors and illustrators scheduled to appear include:


    Michael Cart, a columnist and reviewer for Booklist magazine, is a leading expert in the field of young adult literature. The author or editor of 23 books including his history of young adult literature From Romance to Realism and the coming of age novel My Father’s Scar, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, he is a past president of both the Young Adult Library Services Association and the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English. He is the 2000 recipient of the Grolier Award and the first recipient of the YALSA/Greenwood Press Distinguished Service Award.


    2003 Southern Miss Medallion Winner Lois Lowry is one of the world’s most beloved and versatile authors for children and young adults. She is the author of more than forty books, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has sold millions of books worldwide and twice received the prestigious Newbery Medal, for Number the Stars in 1990 and The Giver in 1994. Other honors she has earned include the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader’s Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. For her contributions as a children's writer, she is the U.S. 2016 nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award; she was a finalist in 2000 and nominee in 2004. In 2007 she received the Margaret A. Edwards Award for her contribution to young adult literature.


    George O’Connor’s first graphic novel, Journey into Mohawk Country, used as its sole text the actual historical journal of the seventeenth-century Dutch trader Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert, and told the true story of how New York almost wasn’t. He followed that up with Ball Peen Hammer, the first graphic novel written by playwright Adam Rapp, a dark dystopian view of a society’s collapse as intimately viewed by four lost souls. Now he has brought his attention to Olympians, an ongoing series retelling the classic Greek myths in comics form. In addition to his graphic novel career, Mr. O’Connor has published several children’s picture books, including the New York Times best-selling Kapow, Sally and the Some-Thing, and Uncle Bigfoot. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.


    As Executive Director of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, Dr. Deborah Pope has directed its work toward increasing diversity in children’s literature and enriching the quality of public education. Through her efforts, the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award is recognized internationally as an imprimatur of quality children’s books for a multicultural audience. Deborah came to the Foundation after an extensive career in theater and arts-in-education. She has two daughters, and lives with her husband in Brooklyn, New York.


    Joyce Sidman is the winner of the 2013 NCTE Award for Excellence in Children's Poetry and author of many award-winning children’s poetry books, including the Newbery Honor-winning Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night, and two Caldecott Honor books: Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems (also a Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award winner) and Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors (which won the Claudia Lewis Poetry Award). She teaches poetry writing to school children and participates in many national poetry events. Her recent book, What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms & Blessings, has been critically acclaimed and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Joyce lives with her husband and dog near a large woodland in Wayzata, Minnesota.


    Since entering the world of children’s books with illustrations for the first of James Howe’s Pinky and Rex easy reading series, Melissa Sweet has illustrated many children’s books, from board books to picture books and nonfiction titles. She received a Sibert Medal for Balloons over Broadway and Caldecott Honors for A River of Words by Jen Bryant and The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus also by Jen Bryant, as well as two New York Times Best Illustrated citations. Her collages and paintings have appeared in the New York Times, Martha Stewart Living, Madison Park Greetings, Smilebox and for eeBoo Toys, which have garnered the Oppenheim and Parents Choice Awards. Melissa currently lives in Rockport, Maine, and loves riding her bike and hiking with her two dogs, Rufus and Nellie. Melissa’s newest book, Some Writer! The Story of E.B. White is a biography of America’s beloved author, to be published in fall 2016.


    Tim Tingle is an Oklahoma Choctaw and an award-winning author and storyteller. His great-great grandfather, John Carnes, walked the Trail of Tears in 1835, and his paternal grandmother attended a series of rigorous Indian boarding schools in the early 1900s. Responding to a scarcity of Choctaw lore, Tingle began collecting tribal stories in the early 90s. His first children’s book, Crossing Bok Chitto, (Cinco Puntos Press, 2005), garnered over twenty state and national awards. In 2010 Tingle released Saltypie and contributed the story "Rabbit’s Tail Tale" to multiple-award winning anthology, Trickster. Both Saltypie and Trickster were selected as 2011 American Library Association Notable Books.


    Author of several award winning novels, Rita Williams-Garcia continues to break new ground in young people’s literature. Known for their realistic portrayal of teens of color, Williams-Garcia’s works have been recognized by the Coretta Scott King Award Committee, PEN Norma Klein, American Library Association, and Parents’ Choice, among others. She says, “My readers are always sharper than my characters. They are always telling the characters a thing or two. I like that. That’s why I enjoy writing for teens. Teens think. They question.” Rita recently served on the National Book Award Committee for Young People’s Literature and is on faculty at Vermont College MFA Writing for Children and Young People.


    The Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival is Proud to Host the Ezra Jack Keats Book Awards. Since 1985, the Ezra Jack Keats Book Awards have been given to an outstanding new writer and new illustrator of picture books for children who share Ezra’s values: the universal qualities of childhood and multicultural nature of our world. Now in partnership with the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection, the EJK Book Awards continue to encourage the next generation of talent who are committed to celebrating diversity through their writing and art.

    For more information, including the tentative schedule and registration information, please visit www.usm.edu/children-book-festival or call the USM School of Library and Information Science at 601.266.4228.


    Submitted by

    Teresa Welsh, Ph.D.

    Professor and Director

    School of Library and Information Science

    The University of Southern Mississippi


  • Monday, February 15, 2016 5:02 PM | Anonymous

    Melissa Wright began her position as Public Services Librarian at Northwest Mississippi Community College in Senatobia in August of 2015.  She obtained her Masters in Library and Information Science and her PhD in adult education from the University of Southern Mississippi and has worked most recently at UMMC’s Rowland Medical Library as head of instructional services.  “I’m so excited to be part of the Northwest team and to work with such a talented, innovative, and creative group of people.”


  • Monday, February 15, 2016 5:00 PM | Anonymous


    Nathan Howe joined Hinds Community College Libraries January 4, 2016, as the Reference Librarian at McLendon Library on the Raymond Campus.  He comes to Hinds after serving as a technical services assistant for the Jackson Hinds Library System, where he previously served as interlibrary loan officer. He had worked with the Jackson Hinds Library System since August 2010. He graduated from the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Southern Mississippi in August 2014. He also holds a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Mississippi.


  • Monday, February 15, 2016 4:58 PM | Anonymous

    In December 2015, Joyce Shaw and Peter Dean became the recipients of the first Friends of University Libraries’ grant to purchase award winning children’s books that portray Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in a realistic way. Shaw and Dean compiled a bibliography of the books as part of a poster presentation at the 2015 Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival. From this list of twenty-two books, eighteen were not owned by University Libraries in one or more collections.  This award will benefit three University Libraries’ collections that include children’s literature: the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection, Cook Library Curriculum Materials Center and Gulf Coast Library Curriculum Lab.  


  • Tuesday, February 02, 2016 1:12 PM | Anonymous

    It is with great sadness that we inform you of the death of Miss Jane Smith. 


    Mary Jane Smith, 69, passed away Tuesday, January 26, 2016 at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson. A private graveside service will be held by the family.


    Miss Smith was born in Little Rock, Arkansas in Pulaski County. She was a longtime resident of Jackson, retiring as Assistant Director of the Mississippi Library Commission after 40+ years of loyal service. Miss Smith enjoyed needlepoint, cross stitch and reading. Reading was her life, giving her great joy. She was a loving sister, friend to many, a woman of her word and someone you could always count on.


    Miss Smith started at MLC as a Library Consultant March 1, 1980. She held a variety of positions and titles in the thirty years she worked there, including Library Consultant Supervisor, Acting Assistant Director for Library Development, Assistant Director for Library Development, Deputy Director, Director of Public Services, and Acting Director of the Mississippi Library Commission. (She held this last position not once, but twice.) Jane was also the 2006 MLA Peggy May Award winner.


    In 1992, she was key in securing $10 million in bond funding for public libraries. This was the first time the Mississippi Legislature had approved such funding for public libraries. It led to 100 new and newly renovated public library buildings in the state.


    Miss Smith was the person who contacted Senator Gray Ferris about developing a statewide collection of databases for use by public libraries. Ferris thought it was a great idea that academic, public, and school libraries joined forces to get legislative support. The end result was MAGNOLIA, which is still in use today. Other states followed Jane's and Mississippi's lead and began offering statewide access to databases.


    MLC Executive Director Susan Cassagne said, "She was a presence. She was always fair and ready to listen. She was an integral part of the MLC family for many years; she will be missed. Please keep her family in your thoughts and prayers."



    Photo taken from MLC Reference Blog

    Jane Smith (left) with Sharman Smith (right)


     

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