Howdy, my darlings, and welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Libraries

podcast about books, culture, and hopefully what to read next.

My name is Frank.

And my name is Crystal. i definitely have a better laptop this time around yeah you're coming in much clearer so are you and your background's

lovely because it's inside of jeffs market right yeah here i am getting ready to reopen after

talking about it for a million years.

But here we are.

I'm exhausted at the end of the day.

Yeah.

I realize I usually wait for like email and stuff like that for the end of the day

because I'm busy hauling books and setting up furniture and blah blah

and then I'm just so tired I'm physically exhausted I'm just one not used to so much

physical labor like I was before two and a half years ago and then also you know the

natural aging process but it, I sleep really hard. But we're getting ready. So,

you know, early summer, we should reopen gloriously. Anyone listening who's going to be in town,

she comes here. Yeah, so I'm excited.

It's fun putting the collection together.

I enjoy that.

Where are a lot of things in storage that you had to unbox and put back on the shelves?

Yeah.

Lots in storage and new stuff because we, you know, closed a while ago and had to get newer material, which we have.

And it'll be, what's most interesting to me is just contemplating what the community will be like and what they will need and what they will want. I mean, I know some families have moved away.

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