Adding Value to People's Lives Via Librarianship, Ep 211
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This week Crystal and Frank chat with AJ Muhammad, the Head Reference Librarian in the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Library in the New York Public Libraries podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I'm Frank. And I'm Crystal. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm Crystal. I'm Crystal. I'm not even going to refer to it. It's been a horrific morning, but we all have horrific mornings. |
| 0:29.6 | But I'm not enough about me and my morning, unfortunately. We have a guest. Another fabulous guest from the library in the world of New York Public Library. Right, Crystal? |
| 0:42.2 | Yes. Come on. I'm very excited. Are you? Okay, cool. Well, why don't you introduce our guest? You do it. |
| 0:55.0 | So our guest is A.J. Muhammad from the Schaumburg Center. And I have known AJ for a few years now, three years four. I don't know. Time has passed very strangely. It's one of my favorite people at NYPL. |
| 1:11.4 | Other than you, of course, Frank. |
| 1:13.2 | Oh, God. |
| 1:14.8 | Good job. |
| 1:16.2 | I did not know you knew each other. |
| 1:18.0 | Hi, AJ. |
| 1:19.2 | Hi, Frank. |
| 1:20.0 | Hi, Crystal. |
| 1:20.8 | Thanks for having me on this episode. |
| 1:23.9 | Of course. |
| 1:24.8 | Sorry, it was such a nutty morning. |
| 1:27.4 | I did not know you two knew each other. |
| 1:29.6 | I have to say, I was like, this is just to be a backstory to nuttiness. |
| 1:35.5 | I was like, oh, we're interviewing the head of the Schaumburg Center. |
| 1:39.2 | Because in my crazy brain, I was like, there was Khalil Muhammad who was in charge a couple of years ago. |
| 1:45.8 | Of course, we have a, there's a new director, Joy Bivens, which I knew. But yet I was like, |
| 1:51.0 | oh, wow, the director of the Schaumburg Center were interviewing. And then I was like, |
| 1:55.1 | it's just the last name. Dumb Duh. AJ is the heads of the reference librarians, right? |
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