I hope people come back and give the library another chance. We really hope to be ready for a new year, a new era in March. I would really love to encourage people to give us another try.

We want to capture the 90 percent of people who think libraries are a good idea, but who don't use it.

We hope it triggers a lot of alarms.

They have to take all of us. We will not move. I sincerely hope he feels protected. I don't want him to feel scared.

You don't want to call it a blessing, but it is a chance. You need hope and a sense of place. These ideas have provided that. They seem to be resonating with an awful lot of people out here.

I'm looking at this as a miniature Bob Hope tour. We're going to get a chance to bring a little bit of America over to them, since they've done so much for us.