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Lori Fitzgerald, the Millinocket Library Director who has worked in the town's library for the last 28 years and is five years from retirement, has been notified that the library will shut down next summer due to the town's budgetary crisis now that the local paper mill is officially out of business. The collapse of the paper industry has left thousands of area residents unemployed and has created a budgetary crisis for the town government, leaving schools, libraries, and emergency services underfunded.