Brian Lair on WNYC for the last 15 minutes of the show today we're going to celebrate National Library Workers Day. Yes, today is that day. It's part of National Library Week, National Library

Workers' Day. So we want to say thank you to the people who keep these places running,

and we also want to do something useful with that, we hope, which is to tell people more than you may

know about what libraries actually do. So library workers, you're going to get

first dibs on the phone. This is for you. Shout out the services that your library offers,

beyond lending out books and housing reference guides, and shout out your fellow workers to

celebrate them on Library Workers' Day. What makes a great library staffer?

How do you try to be one if you are a library worker yourself?

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Some of the answers to what you can do at libraries besides checkout books might genuinely

surprise you. Did you know, according to the website, you can use a sewing machine at the Greenpoint

branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. You could even borrow one to take home until a couple of years ago.

And all three New York City Library systems, that's the New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library,

Queens Public Library, offer career coaching by appointment at the library completely for free.

There's a job fair for people interested in careers in health care at the New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwartzman Building, for free. There's a job fair for people interested in careers in health care at the New York

Public Library, Stephen A. Schwartzman Building, for example, coming up on Thursday, May 28th, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

And beyond New York City, all the way to California, for one more example, the Oakland Public Library,

has a tool landing library. more than 5,000 tools.

You can check out just like a book. They've offered this service since the year 2000, I see.

So 212-433, WNYC, on the services your library branches or systems or your individual ones, I guess that would be your branch,

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