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To initiate and develop a good tribal library is a serious undertaking, and requires a great deal of planning as well as specialized knowledge. Before beginning, a number of questions need to be answered, such as what financial and human resources can the tribe commit to the library? What space is available for this purpose, and is it centrally located? Can the tribe maintain and continue to support the library after it is established? Will it be combined with other tribal departments such as a tribal archives or museum? Will it also serve as the tribe's records management program?
Once tribal administrators have answered these questions, they may want to conduct a community needs analysis to help determine the wants and needs of tribal members. Data collected during this analysis can assist librarians when planning and managing the library once it is established. Information can be used for developing the collection, planning services, and planning the budget. In addition, if there is hesitation in giving funds, or more funds, to the library, good community information can help the library justify its share of the tribal budget. Accurate data can also be used when writing a statement of need for grant applications.
A full-scale community needs analysis can be quite extensive, however the process can be tailored to meet the needs of the tribal library.
Below is a list of categories that can be included in a community needs analysis:
Community Historical Development: Help you understand how the community became what it is today and to provide insight into the kinds of resources to collect and weed;
Geographical Information: You may want to know where people in the community live, how many people live on the reservation, how many in neighboring communities, and what the growth patterns are.
Transportation availability information: Help you determine location of library, hours of service, expected use of library
Demographic Data: Age characteristics, race, languages spoken, educational levels, and transience of the population
Economic Data: To help you identify your community's economic base and major employers;
Social, Cultural, Educational and Recreational Organizations: To help you determine your community's values and social patterns.
Sources of Information:
Interviews: Phone or face-to-face
Key Informants: People who are well-informed about the needs of the community, including elected tribal officials, unofficial tribal leaders, and business leaders, for example.
Community meeting: Inviting community members to discuss their information needs
Census data and other public records: Use these to determine social indicators and demographics
Tribally collected data: The tribe may have already conducted studies with information you can use for the library
Phone book: For information about the community
Asking tribal members specifically what their information wants and needs are can enable the library to provide more useful services. An analysis of the responses to a needs assessment will enable the tribe to identify and list the informational needs of the tribal members; rank them in order of importance; set goals and objectives to meet determined needs; select and acquire appropriate material and design library services to address the stated needs. A sample information needs assessment instrument is provided in Appendix A of this manual.
Additional Resources
- Community Needs Assessment guidelines for rural libraries from the Collection Development Training for Arizona Libraries (CDT) site, sponsored by the Arizona State Library. http://www.lib.az.us/cdt/commneeds.htm
- Cassel, Kay Ann and Elizabeth Futas, 1991. Developing Public Library Collections, Policies, and Procedures, A How-To-Do-It Manual for Small and Medium-Sized Public Libraries, #12, New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc.
- Childers, Thomas A. and Nancy A. Van House (1993). What's Good? Describing Your Public Library's Effectiveness, Chicago: American Library Association
One of the initial decisions which must be made is where in the organizational structure of the tribe the library should be placed. Many tribes place it directly under the tribal manger, others in the education department, and some under social services.
Placement of the library in the tribal structure can vary but the basic purpose of the library, which is to provide service to all tribal members, should be kept in mind.
Some examples of organizational placement are given in Figure 1.
(Figure 1 inserted here)
It is recommended that the tribal council pass a formal resolution establishing the library. The following is a sample resolution.
WHEREAS, The Muckleshoot Indian Tribal Council is the governing body of the Muckleshoot Tribe in accordance with Article III, Section I of its Constitution and Bylaws, approved by the Secretary of the Interior, May 13, 1936; and
WHEREAS, the Muckleshoot Tribe has been without a community facility building since the destruction of the Muckleshoot Tribal Hall by fire in March of 1970; and
WHEREAS, the Muckleshoot Tribe is planning to construct a community facility to be used for the benefit of the Tribe and surrounding community; and
WHEREAS, the Muckleshoot Tribal Council desires to provide within the community facility educational services for the Muckleshoot people and residents of the surrounding community; and
WHEREAS, the Muckleshoot Tribal council believes that including a limited rural library branch of the King County Library System in the Muckleshoot Community Facility would be of great assistance in providing the educational services desired by the Tribe;
That the Muckleshoot Tribal Council requests that the Board of Directors of the King County Library System assist the Tribe in constructing the Muckleshoot Community Center, by allocating the sum of $35,000 for the construction of a limited rural library facility within the Muckleshoot Community Center.
Muckleshoot Tribal Chairman
I, __________, Secretary of the Muckleshoot Indian Tribal Council do hereby certify that the attached Resolution No. is a true and correct copy of the original Resolution adopted on the _____ day of __________, 1971, as said Resolution appears in the Minute Book of the Muckleshoot Tribe, Inc.
Dated this _____ day of __________, 1971.
Some tribes may be able to coordinate the development of their library with others in the area. This model has distinct advantages in that many more resources are available through networking and interlibrary loan. Tribes who want to start a library or expand an existing one should contact their state library or county library system for advice and assistance as to the feasibility of cooperation with other libraries. The degree and amount of cooperation currently in practice varies from informal to legally binding contracts. In the state of Washington, several tribes are benefiting from their relationship with the King County Library System. The System provides not only funds for purchase of library materials, but professional expertise. Local community members manage day to day operations of the library but they may at any time call on professional librarians in the larger system for assistance. They are also linked by computer to the library collections of the much larger system. An example of an agreement between a tribal liaison and a county library system follows.
THIS AGREEMENT is made and entered into this day of __________, 1973, by and between THE KING COUNTY RURAL LIBRARY DISTRICT and the MUCKLESHOOT INDIAN TRIBE, INC. as follows:
- The Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, Inc. has heretofore determined to construct a community center for the use of its members and others, to be known as "The Muckleshoot Community Center";
- The King County Rural Library District, in order to provide library service for residents of King County and the members of the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe residing within the area of the proposed community center, desires to obtain space and facilities within the Muckleshoot Community Center; and,
- The Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, Inc. is desirous of having said library facilities within the Muckleshoot Community Center to be administered by the King County Rural Library District;
1. The Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, Inc. will, at its own cost and expense, proceed with all diligence to construct and complete upon its land in King County, Washington, in the vicinity of Auburn, Washington, a building to be known as the Muckleshoot community Center. Said Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, Inc. will consult with the King County Rural Library District regarding the specifications and plans for said building in order to assure that space in the building will be designed and set aside according to the specifications of the library district, or use by it as a library facility.
2. Upon completion of the building, the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, Inc. agree to execute appropriate instruments granting to the King County Rural Library District the exclusive right to operate library facilities in said community building for such period of time as the library district requires for the discharge of its duties of providing library service from said Muckleshoot Community Center. It is understood between the parties that the library district shall have the exclusive authority to appoint personnel to manage the library center, control the operation of said library center;
3. Upon notification by the proper authorities of the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, Inc. that construction is about to commence, the King County Rural Library District will, upon receipt of an authorized statement from said Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, Inc. to that effect, together with a billing therefore for $35,000.00 (Thirty-Five Thousand Dollars), pay to the National Bank of Commerce, Auburn Branch, Muckleshoot Community Center Account No. 203 1-1 12-974 1, the depository account for this project, for the sole purpose of contributing to the construction of the Muckleshoot Community Center and equipping a library as an integral part of said Muckleshoot Community Center; and,
4. In the event that said community center is not completed or constructed, said Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, Inc. does hereby agree to refund unto the King County Rural Library District all of said sums paid by the library district for the construction and/or equipping of the Muckleshoot Community Center and/or library therein.
By President
By Secretary
The tribal library should have a dependable source of funding from which to operate. It should not, if at all possible, operate from "soft money". That is, money which is available only for a limited period of time, as with some grant monies. The reason for this is obvious: if renewed grant funds are not available, people may be left with no service because the public library will close. Stable funding, such as an annual appropriation from the tribal government, is preferred. This supplemented with IMLS grants and other funds as they are available will ensure at least minimal library services.
Other sources of funds from outside the tribes are sometimes available. They include:
1. County or local appropriation - Some counties and large public library systems offer budgetary appropriations for public library services throughout their service area. Tribes do not always have access to these funds but it is an option which should be examined.
2. State appropriation - Inquiries should be made to the state library agency to determine tribal eligibility for state funds.
3. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Native American Library Services Grants - Federally recognized tribes and Alaska Native Villages can apply for Basic Grants and Enhancement Grants to support existing library operations or new programs. Consult the IMLS website for application details and eligibility guidelines: http://www.imls.gov
4. Other Federal Government Sources - Money for library services and development is available from a variety of other government agencies including the National Endowment for the Humanities (http://www.neh.gov), and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (http://www.archives.gov/nhprc). Tribes must comply with the criteria for eligibility and guidelines as established by each agency.
5. Private Institutions - Private institutions such as foundations or corporations often provide funding for worth while activities. A foundation directory or a particular company's public relations office should be consulted for more details.
Additional Resources
Library boards are established for most public libraries in the United States. They are official bodies consisting of several individuals having some authority for the governing of the library. Members are either elected, appointed or selected by some established procedure. The procedure to be followed should be delineated in a tribal resolution such as the one following:
RESOLUTION OF THE SAC AND FOX TRIBAL COUNCIL Establishing the Sac and Fox Tribal Library Board
1. The Sac and Fox Tribal Council established the Sac and Fox Tribal Library.
1. The Sac and Fox Tribal Library shall be governed by a Library Board consisting of 5 members selected from members of the community by the chairperson of the Sac and Fox Tribal Council.
2. Said Board members shall serve terms as follows: one member appointed for one-year; two members for two years; and two members for three years. Upon the expiration of the initial terms all subsequent members shall be appointed for three year terms. Appointments made to fill vacancies occurring during a term shall serve until the term expires. All terms shall end on September 30 of the designated year.
3. All Library Board members shall serve without compensation.
4. Any Board member may be removed by the appointing authority for misconduct, failure to attend board meetings, and/or neglect of duty.
5. Within the first two months of the initial and subsequent appointments library board members shall elect one of themselves as chairperson and any other officers they deem necessary.
6. The library board shall adopt any other laws, rules and regulations for the operation of the library board and for the government of the library as may be necessary and are in compliance with this resolution, the laws of the Sac and Fox Tribe, and the approved plan of operation for the library.
7. The library board shall recommend the appointment of a librarian to the Chairman of the Sac and Fox Tribe with the employment of the librarian to be consistent with tribal personnel policies and procedures.
8. The library board shall submit an annual report including financial and statistical information to the Chairman for each fiscal year.
9. The library board may accept or decline gifts and grants for the library and may seek non-profit status for same.
10. The Board shall request funds by means of an annual budget and the Sac and Fox Tribal Council shall appropriate monies annually to operate the library.
11. A financial audit of the library shall be performed annually and the results presented to the board.
12. All other Tribal law in conflict with this resolution shall not apply to the operation of the Library and Library Board.
I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly considered by the Sac and Fox Tribal Council at a duly called meeting at ( city ), (state ) at which a quorum was present and that same was passed by a vote of _____ in favor and _____ opposed, this (day) of (month) (year).
Library boards fall into two main types: advisory and administrative. The major difference is:
1. Administrative Boards employ the Librarian and determine and approve library policies.
2. Advisory Boards make recommendations to the governing body concerning the employment of a Librarian and the approval of library policies.
Organizational placement of the library should be analyzed before deciding which board best meets tribal needs. In some cases the Tribal Council may serve as the board. Membership on the Board should be kept at an odd number (5, 7, 9); should not be too large in number; and should serve staggered terms so that there will always be experienced representation on the Board.
Duties of the Library Board vary with the authority given it. Among the most common duties are:
1. Employ or recommend for employment a competent and qualified librarian.
2. Adopt or recommend for adoption written policies to govern the library's operation.
3. Determine the library's purpose.
4. Know the library needs and interests of the community.
5. Locate and secure funds for the library.
6. Establish, support and participate in a public relations program.
7. Assist in the preparation of the annual budget and submit the budget request to the governing body.
8. Know laws affecting the library program.
9. Report regularly to governing officials and the community.
Once members of the library board have been selected, their duties and responsibilities should be reviewed by:
1. Informing them of their duties and responsibilities.
2. Reviewing the library's history with them.
3. Reviewing with them the library's finances.
4. Providing them: a copy of the current budget; a current organization chart; a list of personnel; a copy of current policies, goals and objectives, a copy of agendas and minutes from previous board meetings; a copy of local and other relevant laws, rules and regulations; and a copy of the library's plan of operation.
5. Giving them a tour of the library and introducing them to library personnel.
6. Providing them with information sessions on such topics as intellectual freedom, book selection and processing, information services and other such topics as would be of value to them in performing their duties.
The Library Board should meet regularly, at least monthly, and operate according to an established agenda. The Board Chairperson and the librarian should work closely with each other in developing an agenda. The following steps are suggested in establishing an agenda.
1. Establish the time and date for the next meeting.
2. Review the minutes from the past board meeting.
3. Determine which unfinished or old business needs to be discussed.
4. Determine if any new written or oral communication needs to be discussed.
5. Determine if an executive (non-public) session is needed.
6. Identify committee or sub-committee reports to be made.
7. Develop, type and distribute the agenda one week ahead of the board meeting.
A sample agenda follows:
Meeting Place: Date: Time:
1. Call to order.
2. Reading of minutes of previous meeting and action on same.
3. Board correspondence and communication.
4. Librarian's report.
5. Financial report.
6. Report(s) of standing committee(s).
7. Report(s) of special committee(s).
8. Unfinished business.
9. New business.
10. Other business.
11. Adjournment.
One of the basic administrative functions is planning. It is essential if the library is to achieve effective levels of performance. It focuses on the future. The elements of planning include:
1. Assessing the library and informational needs of the library's community.
2. Creating a mission statement.
3. Determining library goals and objectives.
4. Evaluating the effectiveness of the programs and activities.
Data on community needs can be obtained from a current needs assessment (containing a community profile and a citizen survey).
The librarian and the library board may wish to form a planning committee to assist in forming a mission statement and setting goals and objectives. Composition of this committee could be made up of the following:
1. Tribal Administrator- The library is a part of tribal operations, therefore, its goals and objectives must be compatible with those of the tribes. A representative of tribal government is needed to assure that this point of view is represented.
2. Community Representative- The library serves the needs of its community. A representative or representatives of the community can bring concerns and insights to the planning process.
3. Outside Librarian- A librarian who has experience in planning can be a valuable contributor to the planning team. A librarian from the state library or a local or regional library may be willing to assist.
4. School System Representative -A representative from the local school system can help avoid duplication of school programs and services and help design a more comprehensive library program for the community.
The planning team members must have an interest in what they are doing, be willing to do their assigned work promptly, and attend all scheduled meetings. The committee can begin their work by gathering information on which to base their planning document. This can be done by:
1. Surveying community library/information needs.
2. Gathering data on the current status of the entire library program.
3. Deciding what the primary functions of the library will be. The committee can draft a mission statement, develop goals and objectives, and specify activities for the library to implement. A draft copy of the document can be submitted to others for review and comment. It should be redrafted after consideration of the comments received. The planning document can then be submitted to the library board for formal adoption/approval.
The planning document, because it reflects an on-going process, should be evaluated and updated regularly. The availability of an up-to-date planning document makes it easier for the librarian to perform duties and responsibilities consistent with community needs.
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Every tribal community is unique. This is reflected in the library's mission, goals, and objectives. The formulation of mission statements, and the development of goals and objectives give the library direction and allows it to realistically focus on meeting priority community needs.
The mission statement describes the library's purpose and its role in the community. It should include information on:
1. The people to be served (all of the community, adults, young adults, children, etc.)
2. The needs that will be addressed (cultural, educational, informational, recreational, etc.)
3. Resources and activities to meet these needs.
Goals are developed from the mission statement. They are broad in scope, describing where the library wants to be in the future. Goals provide long range direction for the library.
Tribal librarians should consider establishing goals for next 3 years to fit the 3 year long range plan required as a part of the application process for the IMLS Basic Grant. An example of a goal is "Collect all materials available about the Sac and Fox Tribe."
An objective further defines a goal. An objective concerns only one proposed accomplishment, is measurable, and states when it is supposed to be accomplished. An example of an objective is: "Obtain an index of all materials in the National Archives by, for or about the Sac and Fox Tribe by the end of the fiscal year."
Objectives can be further broken down into activities and tasks for a clearer picture of library responsibilities and actions. An example of an activity and a task is:
1. Activity - Obtain a copy of Edward E. Hill's Guide to Records in the National Archives of the United States Relating to American Indians published in 1982.
2. Task - Contact the U.S. National Archives to find out how to order a copy of Edward E. Hill's Guide to Records in the National Archives of the United States Relating to American Indians.
Additional Resources
An annotated bibliography of additional resources for planning a project and related topics (Needs Analysis and Goals; Evaluation; Writing Grant Proposals) from the Institute of Museum and Library Services tutorial http://www.imls.gov/project_planning/module01/resources/selectedResources.asp


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Talk:Installation guide
- 1 Read this first before add new suggestion
- 2 update "Configure the bootloader" part
- 3 Link Elinks to wiki
- 4 Change section "Connect to the internet"
- 5 Suggestions to update this guide as part of ISO
- 6 Keymaps
- 7 add a step: setting the clock
- 8 pacman-key --init / populate?
- 9 Link to UEFI Bootloaders page
- 10 Styling
- 11 Proposed changes to Beginners' Guide and link to Post-Installation
- 12 "Configure the network" is missing
- 13 Install a bootloader
- 14 2 amendments to do
- 15 The configuration and installation of GRUB in the boot sector is absent
- 16 Mount the partitions
Read this first before add new suggestion
- Point of this page is to not become another Beginner's guide. It's meant to be a concise checklist of things to be done. So detailed install instruction should go to Beginners' Guide.
- If there is something to discuss which should also affect the Beginner's guide, then do it on Talk:Beginners'_Guide/Installation. An advanced user will find this page less bloated and easier to read, so let's KISS.
update "Configure the bootloader" part
to install grub-bios: install guide say:
Configure the bootloader: refer back to the appropriate article from the bootloader installation section.
at Installation_Guide#Configure_system
At this point I did:
grub-mkconfig > /boot/grub/grub.cfg
grub-install /dev/sda
- I agree, although I use grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg, these two commands are enough to install grub on most machines so might as well be part of the actual guide. As with all other commands, problems or alternative configurations can be explained at the linked detailed pages. Spider.007 (talk) 11:48, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
- I suggest to add a tip to follow instructions in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub2#Install_to_440-byte_MBR_boot_code_region - I must do it at every installation --Loper
- Instead of the link suggested by Loper, I'd go for the following: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub#Install_grub-bios_boot_files
- As there are several places to install grub, might as well show that. This is something that needs to be fixed sometime soon as there are instructions to install grub2 after chrooting. These instructions link to the '#Configure the system' section, which fails to mention installation of the bootloader. This is where I suggest posting the link.
- --Ryeguy146 (talk) 12:57, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
I just went through an Arch installation following this guide. Please at least mention the need to initialize the MBR with a link to the appropriate section in the Grub article. It was frustrating to reboot to see an "Operating system not found" message. --Takaitra (talk) 16:24, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
Link Elinks to wiki
Just read that elinks is included on install iso, maybe add an alias/script to allow loading of wiki guide installation guide? --Mr Green
- It's included in the /root directory. thestinger (talk) 18:08, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
Change section "Connect to the internet"
Since the installation guide is now part of the iso image, I'd like to see a few references to the manpages of the necessary tools here, since you cannot open the network related wiki pages. Maybe something like this would be acceptable:
Assuming a wired ethernet connection, running dhclient or dhcpcd is sufficient to get a lease. Otherwise set up the connection manually using ip add, wpa_supplicant (WLAN with WPA), pppoe-setup (DSL), etc. You can also create and use netcfg profiles. Read more in the manpages: ip(8), wpa_supplicant(8), pppoe(8), netcfg(8), netcfg-profiles(5)
A reminder to install the packages for the internet connection in the pacstrap section would also be nice. -- progandy
Suggestions to update this guide as part of ISO
Since this guide is now being included as 'install.txt' in the ISO, it might be beneficial to incorporate the following changes:
- Entirely remove the 1. Download section and move it to the Download area of the archlinux.org page. This document here is about installing, not downloading, checking, burning discs or dd'ing. The majority of users reading this have likely already booted up the install medium.
- Begin or end the document by mentioning the new archlinux(7) man page which explains the location of important system configuration files
# man archlinux
- Slightly expand the 6. Connect to the internet section to include the most basic examples of setting up a private network using a dynamic and static IP address. (Right now it's only a single paragraph/line.) It's a vital installation step and should actually be moved to the top as one of the first actions during system setup. This fact should be emphasized.
Obtain dynamic IP
# dhcpcd
Set static IP
# ip link set dev eth0 up # ip addr add 192.168.1.2/24 dev eth0 # ip route add default via 192.168.1.1 # echo "nameserver 188.8.131.52" >> /etc/resolv.conf
- I can agree to all your suggestions, I wonder why no one is modifying the wiki. Internet connection setup is the most important part and should be covered more extensively. In addition to your changes, mention the manpages and configuration templates for netcfg and pppoe-setup/connect. The boot medium must at least contain easy accesible information in order to read all pages referenced in the installation guide. There should also be mentioned that elinks is installed and can be used to access the wiki. --Progandy (talk) 21:50, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
As this guide mentions the loading of keymaps using loadkeys there should be at least a very small example about /etc/vconsole.conf
Either not talk about keymaps or tell how to make it correct. When this is used as a checklist, the setup of the keymap should not be missing.
- The section on keymaps and fonts links only to the KEYMAP page. An additional link regarding setting default console font should be added to:
add a step: setting the clock
Lots of things care about the clock being more-or-less correct, e.g. pacman-key will not work at all if the clock is too far out. Lots of brand new computers come with the clock set to something in the distant past, which causes weird problems during the install. Thetrivialstuff (talk) 23:14, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
pacman-key --init / populate?
Isn't this a required step? pacstrap does not seem to do it on its own. Thetrivialstuff (talk) 23:15, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
- Edit: Ah; I think this was related to the "set the clock" step -- I see that there is a pacman keyring init in the boot sequence of the latest media, but it (silently?) fails if the local clock is wrong.
- https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2012-July/002708.html --Bluewind (talk) 09:10, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Link to UEFI Bootloaders page
Instead of telling the user to install GRUB(2) alone in case of UEFI, direct the reader to the UEFI_Bootloaders page which provides info about all the UEFI bootloaders capable of booting linux kernel. Also how can I edit the guide, there is no "edit" tab shown on top of the page. Is this page restricted to few authors only? -- Keshav P R (talk) 15:31, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
- The "Install a bootloader" section should be a bullet point above "Configure the bootloader: refer back to the appropriate ...", no need to have them separate. Using pacstrap to install the bootloader just seems silly (especially since they were also merged in the Beginner's Guide). Also, commands after
arch-chrootwould look better if they were indented with ": {{bc|# <command>}}", kinda like how
# pacman-key -v <iso-file>.sigis at the beginning of the article. Would look much cleaner. --DSpider (talk) 16:33, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Proposed changes to Beginners' Guide and link to Post-Installation
Some major changes are under discussion in Talk:Beginners'_Guide#Guide_restructuring: some of them would require adjustments to this very guide, see for example this post.
Please reply in the linked discussion, not here.
-- Kynikos (talk) 12:15, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
- I've added the steps in Beginners' Guide/Post-Installation to this guide, which now directly sends users to Beginners' Guide/Extra.
- If however Talk:Beginners' Guide#Guide restructuring will be implemented as planned, the Beginners' Guide will have a slightly different installation procedure than this guide, unless this one is updated too.
- -- Kynikos (talk) 14:08, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
- The link to Post-Installation was the last step of the guide, so that's the line I've replaced with the instructions from Post-Installation.
- About rebooting in case of a kernel upgrade, I don't think it's necessary to state that since this guide is aimed at experienced users.
- In any case, any reordering or modification of the various steps should better be approved by a Developer, and probably the forum or the mailing lists are better places than this talk page to involve them in such discussions.
- -- Kynikos (talk) 14:59, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
- Yeah, but at this point, you were instructed to reboot. In order to edit
pacman.conf, you need to mount the root partition. And to update your system, you need to chroot into it. It would be better if "Unmount leftovers" was renamed "Unmount leftovers and reboot", and added at the end (before the suggestion to read the instructions from Extra). --DSpider (talk) 15:07, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
- Yeah, but at this point, you were instructed to reboot. In order to edit
- You are still instructed to reboot, aren't you? The "Unmount leftovers" section currently tells you to "reboot and then login into the new system with the root account". In the "new system", the correct partition is already mounted at /.
- Whether or not configuring pacman, updating the system and adding a user would be better done in the chroot before rebooting, it's something that should be discussed with a Developer. I too think that it would make more sense, requiring one less reboot in case of a kernel upgrade.
- -- Kynikos (talk) 15:18, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
- Renaming "Unmount leftovers" to "Unmount leftovers and reboot" is safe anyway, so I've done that. -- Kynikos (talk) 15:37, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
- @DSpider: you're quite active on the forum, why don't you propose your idea there? I think it would be interesting to discuss it. -- Kynikos (talk) 14:11, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
- Ok, after reading this I realize that maybe I haven't been clear enough, so I'll try to explain everything more thoroughly.
- The current procedure makes you configure the system in the chroot environment from the live system.
- Then, still in the live system, it asks you to exit the chroot, unmount the partitions for the new system, reboot and login into the new system. Now, I refuse to write more explicitly in the guide that you should boot into the new system, and not again in the live system, in order to login into the new system.
- Since you are now into the new system (not the live system), the root partition is mounted at
/, not at
/mnt/, so you should be able to configure pacman, update the system and add a user wihtout chrooting. Now, if you've tested the procedure and really noticed that for some obscure-to-me reason you still need to chroot to /mnt in order to do those operations, please ask for clarifications in the forum because I wouldn't be able to answer any more.
- Last thing, and I think this is the 3rd or 4th time I write it, I agree with you that configuring pacman etc. could easily be done in the chroot environment at step 1, but you should propose that change in the forum first, since it would be a change in the official installation procedure and I won't take responsibility for that.
- I think this is the best I can do here, the next step to explain all this could be making a movie or a five-act play, but I hope it's not necessary :)
- -- Kynikos (talk) 05:56, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
"Configure the network" is missing
Basically, you establish an internet connection, but you also need to configure the network, so that you can connect after rebooting. The Beginners' Guide mentions it: You need to configure the network again, but this time for your newly installed environment. The procedure and prerequisites are very similar to the one described above, except we are going to make it persistent and automatically run at boot. And this information seems to be missing from the installation guide. --DSpider (talk) 13:51, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
- I don't think that any Developer is watching this talk page, you'd better report this in the forum or mailing list. -- Kynikos (talk) 10:43, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
- Of course it should. Because after rebooting (which you are instructed to), you're left with a borked machine. You need to boot the installation media again, establish an internet connection, mount the partitions and chroot into your system, and only THEN install the required packages. There should at least be a line that mentions netcfg. Because I read that it can handle both wired and wireless connections, and it's included in base now. --DSpider (talk) 07:04, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
- I'm sorry if I'm missing something, but there is a line about netcfg already and was there a month ago when this discussion was started. If you want to add a note that after rebooting the user has to enable dhcpcd service etc. (so he should have all the needed packages installed beforehand) that's fine with me. -- Karol (talk) 10:09, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
- Of course it should. Because after rebooting (which you are instructed to), you're left with a borked machine. You need to boot the installation media again, establish an internet connection, mount the partitions and chroot into your system, and only THEN install the required packages. There should at least be a line that mentions netcfg. Because I read that it can handle both wired and wireless connections, and it's included in base now. --DSpider (talk) 07:04, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Install a bootloader
Make it more visible that it is a choise between Grub/Syslinux.
2 amendments to do
In Configure the system:
There is only one link on
Add console keymap and font preferences in /etc/vconsole.conf
This link should apply only to "console keymap".
"font preferences" should link to Fonts#Console_fonts
There is also:
Uncomment the selected locale in /etc/locale.gen and generate it with locale-gen.
This should be removed as it has been already done during this step:
Set locale preferences in /etc/locale.conf.
Thanks and regards, Boism (talk) 21:10, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
The configuration and installation of GRUB in the boot sector is absent
In the GRUB section the guide says:
"Install GRUB after chrooting (refer to the #Configure the system section). "
But isn't, and following the guide my system fail in the first startup, the lines to add in "Configure the system section" are:
In the chroot:
# grub-mkconfig > /boot/grub/grub.cfg # grub-install <device>
Or a comment like:
- Configure and install GRUB using grub-mkconfig and grub-install, see GRUB page for more info
Mount the partitions
Please also mention that if using a swap partition the user should execute swapon at the "Mount to partitions" step. It is important to do this so that the swap partition is included when generating the fstab later on in the guide.--Takaitra (talk) 17:13, 14 February 2013 (UTC)


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Each day of the week has a color and a theme.
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Does this answer your question about whether the web can be hand curated or not?
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Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Malfunctioning Vote-Counting Machines Are ALWAYS A Sign Of Corruption
Dear Normal People,
You often hear about voting machine malfunctions, both here in the US and overseas. I think as a computer programmer it's pretty important to point out that voting is not a difficult problem from a technological standpoint. I think pretty much any one of the programmers who read my blog regularly could build an absolutely secure voting machine in a matter of hours, and their only challenge would be staying awake while doing something so incredibly unchallenging and therefore boring.
Every story you see on the news about voter fraud is an instance of corruption at work. There are no exceptions. The only way systems which handle such incredibly simple problems can malfunction so consistently and spectacularly is if they are designed to do so. It's like putting square wheels on a car. Fucking up something that simple is harder than getting it right. It takes effort. It can only happen deliberately.
Every single time a voting machine malfunctions, somebody has ripped you off. Manufacturing fradulently "malfunctioning" voting machines has become the new method of choice for undermining democracy. Every time it happens, you should put somebody in jail.
Computer Programmers
31 comments:
- AnonymousSeptember 4, 2007 at 2:03:00 PM PDT
i'll just point out that with modern cryptography and open-source auditing techniques, we could make voting systems that were secure and auditable (making sure your vote was counted, making sure that every vote corresponds to a real person, making sure a person doesn't vote more than once). this wouldn't be dead-easy like you describe, but would actually be an advancement of the field of verifiable voting.ReplyDelete
any other sort of electronic scheme is pure fraud, even if it doesn't appear to malfunction. bringing voting into the electronic domain (where the process can be easily subverted on a wide scale with little oversight) without such cryptographic techniques is negligence in and of itself. all such machines do is defraud the public out of money, and most likely out of democracy.
Putting all the credibility of a system into the electronic data it claims to have stored and retrieved is a quick path to an easy workaround (corruption again). Without freely viewable data storage, there's really no way to guarantee that a vote tally is accurate unless you can match a vote to a part of a count.ReplyDelete
Some ways to do this include giving each vote a number ([state]-[district]-[vote tally], like CA-27-5672) and treat it like an inventory. Then you'd have to give each person who voted that number so they can check their vote. This might be one of the newer barcodes which fill an area, or just a web site to check for their vote (Long list, ctrl+F to confirm that they were counted). The only problem left is to make sure that votes are not changed or added: This would be a programming aspect; such as comparing attendance at the polling station to how many votes seem to have been cast, and having people check their own votes.
While such a system would not be easy or quick to implement, it wouldn't be a challenge or a great expense. However, doing things differently is a strange and fearsome thing to bureaucracy. At some point though, you have to question the dwindling reasons not to enact a transparent system of votes.
- AnonymousSeptember 4, 2007 at 2:42:00 PM PDT
Dear sirs,ReplyDelete
While I confess I agree with your main thesis, I believe you are overstating matters. In particular, you seem ignorant of some of the requirements for such a system.
- Votes must be anonymous : there mustn't be a way to determine, after the fact, how anyone cast their vote. If there were such a facility, then thuggish elements would have a means to ensure that you voted as you were told and break, or abstain from breaking, your legs as appropriate.
- So long as the process is being modernized, due consideration should be given to the deaf, the blind, the dumb. Particularly the dumb: Universally usable interfaces are easy only in retrospect on the very rare occasion that they succeed, and damn near impossible otherwise.
- End-to-end security is a hard problem no matter how you choose to slice it. One chink in your armor and the game is over. For example: suppose there is an unnoticed weakness in the section of code that reads the list of candidates and proposals before an election. Such information must be disseminated to all voting machines before the election; any weakness here and some wise-acre billy will write up a virus that carries itself from machine to machine.
T. Reginald Gibbons, Esq.
- AnonymousSeptember 4, 2007 at 2:53:00 PM PDT
You have to divide control. Make one party responsible for counting total votes while another counts votes for each candidate, etc. Allow all people to view a hashed list of all votes so they can verify that theirs is in the list. Since a third party counted total votes no one could add votes to the list and Bob couldn't extract Alice's vote from the list without her key. Just one suggestion. Sure it has holes too.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 4, 2007 at 3:39:00 PM PDT
"I think pretty much any one of the programmers who read my blog regularly could build an absolutely secure voting machine in a matter of hours, and their only challenge would be staying awake while doing something so incredibly unchallenging and therefore boring."ReplyDelete
Are you kidding me? Please detail the design of your "absolutely secure voting machine" and how you can make sure it is 100% tamper proof. How will input from the user be made? How will you verify that each user votes once and only once? What sorts of mechanisms will you put into place to let the user know HOW they voted? Will you leave a paper trail or not? What are the inputs and outputs of your system? How do you update the code in your system? How are the machines polled for their final tallies? Do you use a network? Which one? How do you secure it?
This post is incredibly naive.
- Bush for 3rd TermSeptember 4, 2007 at 4:47:00 PM PDT
The solution is already used daily around the USA by millions of individuals, no need reinventing the wheel...ReplyDelete
Are you ready for it . . . ?
When it comes time to vote, the voter can pull up to the gas station, put their credit card in the gas pump and the pump will validate the person, prompt them who they want to vote for while the tank is being filled, then the machine prints a human-readable receipt of the transaction back to the user. It couldn't be simpler. Even has nice big YES/NO buttons and old people know how to use these devices too!
Could throw in a free soda to get young people to vote too! It is not only perfect for people on the go, it would increase voter turnout!
You can be sure that corporations relying on those machines to bring in every fractional cent of income have put the machines through the rigors.
Simple. But that is too easy, and it would prevent Bush winning a third term.
- AnonymousSeptember 4, 2007 at 4:57:00 PM PDT
The post might be naive, but not in that it's hard to create a secure and stable voting machine. The naivety is in thinking that the majority of programmers can write anything more complex than "hello world".ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 4, 2007 at 5:13:00 PM PDT
In reponse to "Bush for 3rd Term" This is an interesting idea, but flawed. The anonymous vote factor is completly destroyed every time you use your credit card. You can't vote based on authentication at the gas pump. Not only does it directly link your vote to your identity it leaves the vote count directly in the hands of the oil companies. Also, as you have already mentioned, you can influence the vote by offering free sodas. So why not offer $5 off that tank of gas by voting for Candidate X?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 4, 2007 at 5:58:00 PM PDT
In Canada we have a great system. You fill out a paper ballot with an 'X' that has a detachable top with barcode.ReplyDelete
The vote part is separated from the inventory-controlled part and put in the ballot-box scanner.
Since the votes are scanned the total is available instantly. Since the original paper votes are there you have a legitimate paper trail.
Works great, much less potential for fraud.
Why don't y'all programmers and engineers create an alternative and cheap voting machine to compete with these corrupt corporations? Is anyone doing this?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 4, 2007 at 6:38:00 PM PDT
to jonas: there is no point in making a secure one if the government wont buy it which they wont unless you have a contract from the beginning.ReplyDelete
A lot of folks here are missing the point. You don't have to create an absolutely secure voting system. You just have to create one that works.ReplyDelete
Your task: build a user interface and storage system so that every time someone presses the button labeled "Bush" a vote is tallied for Bush, and every time someone presses the button labeled "Kerry" a vote is tallied for Kerry.
Do we think just about any programmer on the planet is capable of building such a system that will accurately report the number of votes for each candidate at the end of the day?
If so, then when someone talks about a vote-counting machine that does NOT reliably report such, it must have been tampered with. It doesn't matter if the votes were encrypted with quantum-string algorithms with keys derived from moon rocks or if the developer used ROT13 - if the system didn't record 10,000 votes for Kerry as 10,000 votes for Kerry (or reports more votes than people actually voted), then SOMEONE FUCKED WITH THE RESULTS.
You have two choices:
1) Your software developer screwed up Vote=Vote + 1, or
2) Someone changed the outcome
If we can agree that (1) is borderline insane, then (2) is the logical conclusion, and voila - evidence of a federal felony.
So when an election board checks its voting machines and says "say, that's funny" the FEC should show up with the FBI and take over. Oddly, this seems to have happened in 0% of the cases.
The Kos article is about security flaws and vulnerabilities, not corruption.(As much as the Kos Kids would love to believe it).ReplyDelete
Would you like to be put in Jail for *your* software's security vulnerabilities?
I thought not. Sounds more like BDS at work.
If you can do so much better, go for it. I hate to break it to you but the CA state legislature is mostly Democrat so those crafty Republicans can't keep you out...
Put your foot in it again, and on the front page of Reddit, no less.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 4, 2007 at 7:28:00 PM PDT
I do not for a second believe that writing the software for the voting machine can ever be anything than the simplest of problems [I was going to write: challenge, but it really isn't] for a coder.ReplyDelete
The only thing the machine has to do is to record the vote, add to the tally and produce the result. It's an addition.
Why is this not a challenge? Because that's what Wall-Mart is doing every day a billion times over: adding up sales and producing a slip that says: 'you bought soandso for thisandthat price'. That's how they run their stock and they are -very- efficient at it.
To say that you can't make software that runs a counter for every name entered and do this in a robust and safe way is tantamount to saying you're working for the people defrauding the public.
The fact that we're talking about malfunctioning voting machines in America... wake the hell up, people.
- AnonymousSeptember 4, 2007 at 7:35:00 PM PDT
Here's a secure way of voting, like it has been done for decades in real democracies: take a large piece of paper, listing all the names people can vote for.ReplyDelete
Make it so that there is a totally non-ambiguous way to cast a vote: color a field next to the name to indicate a vote.
Have people from the community come in and count the votes while being supervised by officials representing all parties so that every vote is actually counted.
It takes a bit more time, but you simply can't miss.
This is about democracy, about the vote of the people, it's important to get it right and to be absolutely sure that you get it right -every time-.
And another thing: make the vote compulsory for every adult. Make sure -all the voices- in society are heard in stead of a small subset. That would change the political landscape in a real hell of a hurry.
Diebold makes banking hardware like ATMs, and you know there is NO WAY the banking industry would let them get away with the faulty product they are trying to pass off as a voting machine.ReplyDelete
Diebold would not be in business if their banking hardware worked as well as their voting hardware.
Makes me think of Man of the Year (2006 film), where the presidential candidate wins the electronically conducted election because the double letters in his name (doBBs) came first alphabetically when compares to the double letter patterns in other candidate names.ReplyDelete
Some things seriously take a _lot_ of effort to screw up.
- AnonymousSeptember 4, 2007 at 10:17:00 PM PDT
public class VotingMachine {ReplyDelete
public static var candiateNames:Array;
public static var candiateVotes:Array;
public static var candidateButtons:Array;
public function VotingMachine():void {
candiateNames = ["Bush", "Kerry", "Hilter", "Ghandi"]
candiateButtons = []
candiateVotes = []
for (var a in candidateNames) {
candidateButtons.push(new Button(candidateName[a]))
candidateButtons[a].addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, addVote)
candiateVotes.push = new int()
private function addVote(e:Event):void {
var index:int = candiateNames.indexOf(e.target)
if (index != -1) candidateVotes[index] += 1
else throw new Error("You have made up a candidate")
<-- it can't go wrong.
- AnonymousSeptember 4, 2007 at 10:18:00 PM PDT
<-- assuming you manage to spell 'candidate' correctly in your code.ReplyDelete
Perhaps *that* is what went wrong! Boo to the naysayers and up for Diebold!
Congrats. You've just proven the opposite of what you are trying to argue.ReplyDelete
Clearly it's very possible for programmers to be so incompetent that they can't understand the real problem they are being asked to solve.
No voting machine can ever be secure, reliable, transparent and publicly accountable. That's why we have these tried an proven systems with pieces of paper an ballot boxes. It ain't perfect, but if you think it can be reliably replaced by information technology, you don't understand information technology.
The very existence of voting machines are a sign of corruption.
(I am a programmer by the way)
- AnonymousSeptember 4, 2007 at 11:53:00 PM PDT
Three Ballot VotingReplyDelete
Seriously, end of story. For a while at least. There are some variants worth exploring where voters can exchange ballots with each other even more frequently however lets take things step by step and adopt widespread use of three ballot first.
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2007 at 12:26:00 AM PDT
There is some confusion here.ReplyDelete
* There are paper ballots and electronic ballots. E-voting with machines is typically a combination of a machine and paper ballot or paper receipt.
* A voting system is NOT a simple counting machine for scalar numbers.
* E-voting over the internet would be efficient, fast, flexible, and convenient. It would also be difficult to design: there is always the potential security risk the various processes regarding gathering votes, tallying them or verifying the results. For every system made, someone can break it at it's weakest point. An unfortunate truth.
3. The key is designing a system that is 'good enough', but that does not necessarily mean 'simple'. I propose to have a standardized, open source, code-checking, anonymous system that provides end-to-end encryption and reciprocally, user-authentication using a public key exchange.
Before even counting the vote, the voter would have a receipt in the same way the red cross has people place a sticker to confirm blood donation. For redundancy, and in the case of doubt or a potential compromise of validity, a peer-to-peer verification process could be used to resolve claims and report discrepancies (ie: fraud).
With this type of system, even if everything were checked and correct, the fraud could happen at announcement time.
Even if we had FRANCE hold all of the US registration/voting server clusters and tally our votes, they could still be bought off by some malfeasant political person, group or interest.
There is no end to treachery. 'Locks keep the honest people out'. At a certain point, the voter base has to be satisfied with the answer.
It's going to come down to a gut reaction.
4. There are open source e-voting systems being designed already, but without encryption, anonymity, or peer-validation, what use are they except as a study for something better?
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2007 at 12:35:00 AM PDT
For a given voting system, the key to providing both anonymity and authentication is to make temporary accounts and necessarily decouple the registration database user info (which will reveal a true identity) with the anonymous votes in the voting database. Put the registration database in one affiliate country and the voting one in another affiliate country. Having three countries involved provides the necessary balance of jurisdiction to create an imbalance of potential fraud.ReplyDelete
It's not perfect but it's a hell of a lot bette than diebold, which is imo one of the most irresponsible companies in the known universe.
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2007 at 5:27:00 AM PDT
Your friendly grammar nazi says:ReplyDelete
Try "Malfunctioning".
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2007 at 6:37:00 AM PDT
Basic design:ReplyDelete
Validation Application
1. Voter is verified as valid voter (a registered voter that hasn't already voted)
2. Voter is assigned a unique id
3. Total of verified voters is kept
Vote Application
1. Voter enters unique id
2. Voter votes
3. Vote is associated with unique id
4. Voter is given a printout of unique id
5. Voter total is kept
Vote Verification Application
1. Compare totals from Validation Application and Vote Application
2. Publish all of the results to the public
None of these steps are difficult.
Validation Application:
Step 1 could be done the same way we do it now
Step 2 we could just have a pile of randomized unique ids with bar codes stored in envelopes which are handed to each voter
Step 3 what programmer hasn't kept a running total?
Voter Application:
Step 1 just scan the bar code
Step 2 make a simple easy to use user interface (there are already plenty of existing examples to borrow from)
Step 3 Unique_Id table has unique_id collumn Vote table has a unique_id foreign key (one to many relationship one person votes for president, senator, house representatives, and dog catcher's raise for example)
Step 4 just like printing a receipt for a voter's personal records
Vote Verification Application:
Step 1 Get the totals from the other two applications
Step 2 This can be done on a web page and in public places like libraries. People can see that their vote was counted correctly and they can compare voter totals from each application
That's not grammar, it's spelling. But thanx. Corrected.ReplyDelete
E-voting over the Internet would be difficult to design.ReplyDelete
That's ridiculous. There's nothing difficult about it. "It's not voting, it's E-VOTING. And it involves the INTERNET. It's DIFFICULT. Ooooooh." What a load of crap. I bet Tic-Tac-Toe would be difficult too if it were "E3T over the Internet." Total fucking bullshit. A junior high student could code it.
One person, one vote. Leave a paper trail. Those are your requirements. That's IT. If you submitted something that basic to Rails Rumble next weekend, you wouldn't stand a chance in the competition because you wouldn't be working hard enough.
Dear Anonymous: You're on to something. You're analyzing both the problem AND the viable solutions. Instead of running out to grab the latest quick fix, we need to look at the big picture. We need tighter, better, wiser controls. And we need fix our election laws to protect us from machine and human error, and HUMAN INTERPRETION of election results. Computers, paper, people will fail…our laws must trigger automatic re-voting when they do.ReplyDelete
Lani Massey Brown, MARGIN OF ERROR: BALLOTS OF STRAW, political intrigue of a stolen election, Amazon com.
What else can you expect when you give programmers dangerous tools open classes and dynamic typing?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 9, 2007 at 8:33:00 AM PDT
"I bet Tic-Tac-Toe would be difficult too if it were "E3T over the Internet.""ReplyDelete
That's not even a funny strawman argument. Only an ignoranus would simplify the requirements to "One person, one vote. Leave a paper trail. Those are your requirements. That's IT."
I'm scared of any shiny, happy software you produce.


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"This is still an active and ongoing investigation," Vara said, surrounded by representatives from the state police, attorney general's office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. "We will continue with any and all resources available to us."
On Friday, state police and FBI agents joined the search for Marriott, who was last seen Tuesday during a class at the Durham campus of UNH. The 19-year-old, who is a commuter student living with her aunt and uncle in Chester, N.H., was believed to be headed to Dover to see friends before she went missing.
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Marriott failed to show up for her work shift at the Greenland Target store on Wednesday and has not attended UNH classes since Tuesday. Hanna said there has been no activity in Marriott's bank accounts since Tuesday.
Marriott, a 2011 graduate of Westborough High School in Massachusetts, was studying marine biology at UNH, according to her uncle. She attended Manchester Community College her freshman year before transferring to UNH this year. She was living with her aunt and uncle this year and commuting to save money.
Marriott had volunteered as a guide at the New England Aquarium in Boston for the last four years, according to aquarium spokesman Tony LaCasse. She started working there in January 2009 as part of the aquarium's "World of Water" training program for teenagers.
As a high school student, Marriott spent Saturdays volunteering at the aquarium, and continued to work there through August of this year, donating an estimated 400 hours of volunteer work at the organization, LaCasse said.
Hanna described his niece as an "all-around nice kid," who was quiet and loved to read.
"She's a very nice person," he said. She's a very pretty girl, which is — she's also, I would say, a little bit young and naive. When you're at that age, life is great and everyone's your friend. She's a very trusting person. But (she has) a good outlook on life."
The web domains FindLizzi.com, FindLizzie.com, and FindLizzy.com have all been bought by Marriott's family. A Help Find Lizzi Marriott Facebook page has also been established.
State police, FBI agents, and police from UNH, Dover, and Chester have been participating in the search, as well as authorities from Marriott's hometown of Westborough, Massachusetts.
Democrat staff writers Jim Haddadin and Samantha Allen and the Associated Press contributed to this report.


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