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day operations and provide medical services.
• The two-story, 18,000-square-foot Sanford World Clinic will be located in Kunming, a city of more than 6 million that is growing rapidly and needs primary care for children, officials said.
• The expansion into China stems from Sanford's goal to expand health care services to areas of need, particularly for children, said Dave Link, Sanford's senior executive vice president.
• "This clinic also allows us to better understand how health care is delivered and financed around the world," Link said in a written statement. "We are confident that we can assist YMCI Calmette achieve its mission to deliver the best care in the region, and we look forward to this collaboration."
• Sanford in the past four years has opened children's clinics in Oklahoma, California and Oregon, along with regular clinics in the African nation of Ghana.
• Sanford, based in Sioux Falls and Fargo, bills itself as the nation's largest not-for-profit rural health care provider, with locations in 126 communities in nine states. It has been expanding its presence around the globe, and also is pursuing clinics in Israel and Mexico.
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Libraries' embrace of e-books is growing
CARSON WALKER, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- With more South Dakotans owning tablets and e-readers, libraries across the state are transforming into resource centers to help people tap into the large amount of content previously unavailable through physical books, especially in rural areas.
• That taxpayer-funded library card gives readers access to thousands of books, magazines and other electronic resources -- for free.
• "The untold story is that the small libraries have incredible access," said state librarian Daria Bossman. "If you brought a truckload of new nonfiction and fictions books in, 8,000 books, into a small community, you'd wow people. And that's what's there."
• Of the 111 public libraries in South Dakota, 71 pay a minimum of $600 a year to be part of SD Titles To Go, giving them access to e-books through OverDrive Inc. Three other libraries have such access through their own subscriptions: Rapid City, Ellsworth Air Force Base and Siouxland Libraries, which serves Sioux Falls and Minnehaha County.
• The number of individual titles available has grown from 1,258 two years ago to 8,170, Bossman said.
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