Small as it is, the Madison Public Library is nominally a quiet place, but for a moment, Christine Inman made an exception. Inman, the library director and sole full-time employee, had just learned the library had been the recipient of a $1,000 grant from the Kansas Book Festival. At any other library, this would have been good news — $1,000 can and would buy countless books to refresh the library. But at Madison Public Library, about 30 minutes south of Emporia, the grant represented double the $500 budget the community resource usually receives for books each year.
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