Michigan: “Berkley, Not Berkeley? Library Scores Misspelled Buttons”

From the Detroit Free Press:

When two cities have nearly identical names, mix-ups are bound to happen.
But for the city of Berkley’s Public Library, a decade-old mistake by a library on the west coast turned into a pretty sweet deal.
The Oakland County library received a batch of buttons from the Berkeley Public Library, located in Berkeley, Calif., after the library noticed its order of buttons were misspelled.
The buttons say: “I have a library card, Berkley Public Library.”
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“Thank you to the kind folks at Berkeley Public Library for sending these buttons along for us to use,” the Berkley Library posted on Facebook. “Berkley” or “Berkeley” … We’re both fans of celebrating new library card holders. I’m told this happened a second time years ago, so we’re happy to get them again.”

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