Hi, everybody. Welcome to The Librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I'm Gwen. I'm Frank.

And we are here today with Jay Vissers, who is a senior librarian with a picture collection at Mid-Manhattan Library. Jay, thanks so much for coming.

Thank you.

I should say that I don't know if Jay knows.

Well, Jade must know.

You know the documentary that Frederick Wiseman filmed of the New York Public

Library that will be out later this year, I believe.

Have you seen it?

Yes.

Well, you're in it.

And very impressively, you're like sort of steal the show.

Really? What are you doing it?

He's doing class.

Billy Parrott, who's in charge of the picture collection,

whatever,

and introduces Jay to the class,

and then you introduce the picture collection to them as a college

class I believe you're informative hilarious and unique wow and I found I found one of the

it's a three and a half hour documentary and it's was one of the most memorable scenes in it

was so what do you remember when they filmed it? Yes, I remember the class,

too. Yeah. And that's actually kind of perfect, because maybe you could take this opportunity to

introduce the picture collection to everyone listening. Yeah. Like what it is and what it does. Yeah.

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