Hey, welcome to the librarian in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.

I'm Frank.

I'm Gwen.

And later, we're going to be joined by Nancy Aravez, an adult librarian trainee at my branch, Jefferson Market.

I'm looking forward to that interview for sure.

I hope she's not too nervous.

It was really sweet when she emailed and said she was nervous.

I know.

I mean, I thought it would be interesting to have a, um, a 20-something young person who is in

library school. Yeah. Who, who clearly has aspirational or goals or is motivated to become a

librarian and what her perspective is. Like two times ago, we had the C-Blow, the chief branch library

officer Christopher Platt, who, you know, we have, we want to have

different ranges of staff here from like high administration to some newbies just starting out.

Yeah, no, I think that's really cool. It also is amazing that Nancy is a trainee because she's such an

active part of our recommendations community that when I went and looked up her title I was like oh

right she's in library school I forgot that she's she's still unofficial so see that's a great

point because like Christopher is very humble I mean certainly has humility and like our nay our roles

our titles like you know we don't always relate to, like, who we are.

Like, you just said, like, Nancy has a master's degree from NYU in English literature.

But yet she's considered a trainee and just starting out and being shown to certain things.

But she comes with the whole skill set.

Like, we all do.

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