Carla Hayden Wants You to Read a Book
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Carla Hayden sits down with Gwen and Frank to discuss what it really means to lead the Library of Congress—which, by the way, isn't only FOR Congress. Plus: lessons she learned from storytime, how she organizes her home library, and the first time she ever saw herself reflected in a book.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Librarian is in the New York Public Libraries podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm Gwen. |
| 0:16.3 | And I'm Frank. |
| 0:17.3 | And we're here today at the Schaumburg Center for Research in Black Culture with an incredible |
| 0:20.6 | guest, Carla Hayden, the librarian of Congress. |
| 0:23.2 | Dr. Hayden, thank you so much for joining us here. |
| 0:25.3 | Well, thank you. |
| 0:26.4 | I could barely get out of the shop. |
| 0:29.3 | Oh, the gift shop. |
| 0:30.4 | To come up here, the gift shop with the wonderful book selection that's right here. |
| 0:35.2 | People might not think about it, but the book selection and the shop and all the things, it's just a great entryway to the Schaumburg. |
| 0:42.3 | Excellent. I'm so glad. And we should say, actually, before we start, we're in a glass-walled conference room here in Harlem, and so you might hear some street noise as you're listening. It's just showing we're legit. |
| 0:54.6 | We're legit. |
| 0:55.4 | But also it means that this is a library that's in the heart of a community on 135th Street |
| 1:02.5 | and Lennox and Malcolm X Avenue. |
| 1:05.0 | And it's bustling and the library is bustling right now. |
| 1:09.2 | Absolutely. |
| 1:10.0 | I think it's really neat the exhibition space downstairs that we were in. Did you see the more than? And the library is bustling right now. Absolutely. |
| 1:14.0 | I think it's really neat, the exhibition space downstairs that we were in. |
| 1:15.5 | Did you see the Martin Luther King Jr.? Haven't had a chance to see that yet. |
| 1:17.3 | As soon as we finish, I'm going there. |
| 1:19.3 | And that's what's so wonderful. |
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