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Miles away, in a small apartment lit only by a desk lamp, a young girl named Maya sat staring at a blank search bar. She was the daughter of immigrants, the first in her family to dream of becoming an astrophysicist. She needed one more piece of data—a specific spectroscopic chart of a star in the Orion nebula—to finish her scholarship application.

: In 2018, the Gwinnett County Public Library system recorded exactly 1,123,872 searches through the Galileo electronic database, highlighting the massive scale of digital research in Georgia. 123872

Every number has a story, and was the night Maya found her star. SAPULPA CITY COUNCIL MEETING Miles away, in a small apartment lit only