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1,   ` _ ,     gg,   ‘   , _   ;   , by actress Shirley Jones in "
1 `   _A ` V § V , V V V , V V V "The Music Man," is indel—  
.   ’   ' ‘ `  ll ; i at          $2       ible. Stern, no—nonsense and l
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    V °‘»         "                   Y   a meticulously coifed bun,
  4,, » ~»~» — __     VVVV         §       V   perched on top of her head
1.;..;,3   M   .       ~1   I     ¢       1   like a generous dollop of
•_•  A   ,,           whipped cream. She walked
, ·~   ""` ”"`°"°°"*   ·*  `  `i``     T   ’ A   so erect it looked as if she y
  T     E I   ¥   .   QQ _;  V; could have had a board I
  V   , . WV . Q. _§.. _ VV   strapped to her back. Behind T
l @ l l I. Q 1   } `         — — E We her big desk, she scolded
l . l I   _ ·— # I j A   noisy teenagers while peering
1- g 1 .,,,.Y   we ` `“ g   _ over wireless, round glasses.
1 l M _ ,5 $..1, · Flash forward four decades,
  is-   and meet the 2006 version
, _ V_ of Meredith Willson’s classic
_ · l N-., · p Q~ b 4 Ch3.I`HCt€I`.
    _ , , Kim Fender has heard all
ll   ,_ N jr ` the stereotypes before. “I’ll
2 ”   meet someone and tell them
  ` " I work at the library, and
_, » ;,,. _ * ·*   they’ll say, ‘You don’t look ·
  "”M   like a librarian] and I’ll say,
I V, I   ‘Oh, I forgot my bun!"’ I
, ,. The f1ve—foot tall woman
l * ` with short, dark, red hair
l ‘ certainly does "work" at a
V library. In fact, for the past
_ / seven years, she has run the
l I Public Library of Cincinnati
| and Hamilton County, which
V - ranks as one of the top I0
circulating library systems
* in the country. As executive
5 4 director, she oversees a $50
I million budget, 42 branches
_, and a collection that totals al-
5   most 10 million books, tapes,
ll ij magazines, CDs, reference
l!   materials and more.
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UK ALUMNA LEADS A Top 10 CIRCULATING
LIBRARY IN THE UNITED STATES
{ By Beverly Bell
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