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Supervisor credits local librarians for preserving historical records as Douglas Port of Entry reopens
Summary
During approval of the consent agenda, a supervisor highlighted research by Douglas library staff and county personnel that helped document historical records for the Douglas Port of Entry and said libraries remain essential for accurate local history.
A supervisor who seconded the consent-agenda motion on July 28 told the Cochise County Library District board that local library staff had provided crucial historical materials related to the BDI site and the Douglas Port of Entry. The supervisor named Douglas librarian Margaret White and thanked county staff member Amy for locating items useful to university and USDA contacts preparing materials for federal review. "If we didn't have a library, we wouldn't be able to give them that historical background that, you know, they were looking for," the supervisor said.
The supervisor described the Douglas Port of Entry as reopening to cattle and said the historical records were needed for federal contacts, including the USDA and representatives in Washington, D.C. She also criticized artificial-intelligence sources as unreliable in this context: "So libraries are still very important because thank God, because I you know, as we see, AI is consistently wrong all the time." The remarks came during routine approval of consent agenda items 1 and 2; the board voted to approve those items by voice vote before adjourning the library district portion of the meeting.
