Curatorial Curiosities
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Books have lives too! Frank and Gwen take a break from talking about the words on the page and get into the stories of items in NYPL's archives. In this specially curated tour, meet the Mary Poppins doll that made peace between author and illustrator, hear about a woman spymaster during the Civil War, and find out what limp vellum is. Plus: Nancy Drew has a secret.
Guest: Meredith Mann, Librarian for Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books at NYPL
You can learn more about the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division here. Also check out Meredith's blog posts to discover more about NYPL's living artifacts. There is even one on marcas del fuego (marks of fire) and the Mexico City imprint that is discusssed in this episode.
Meredith's Book Recommendation
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to The Librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about |
| 0:10.2 | books, culture, and what to read next. In today's episode, Frank and I visited the Rare Books |
| 0:14.6 | and Manuscripts division of the New York Public Library, and we got a cool tour from Meredith |
| 0:19.2 | Man, who's the librarian for manuscripts, |
| 0:21.6 | archives, and rare books here at NYPL. She pulled out all these great items from our collections |
| 0:26.6 | and we got to hear their stories. So here we go. |
| 0:33.6 | So my name is Meredith Mann and I'm a librarian in the Manuscripts Archives and Rare Books |
| 0:39.7 | Division at the Schwartzman Building at the New York Public Library. |
| 0:43.0 | And we're here today to look at some really cool stuff with Meredith. |
| 0:46.9 | So this basically came about because I'm jealous of Emily Blunt in many, many ways, but |
| 0:52.6 | one of the ways is that you did a segment on the news, CBS News, CBS News. |
| 0:57.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.9 | CBS News. |
| 0:58.6 | Sunday morning, yeah. |
| 0:59.3 | Yeah, CBS Sunday morning. |
| 1:01.2 | With her, where you showed her all of this Mary Poppin stuff. |
| 1:04.1 | And I was like, wait a minute, why don't Frank and I get to go see cool stuff like Emily Blunt? |
| 1:07.8 | I am her, so. |
| 1:09.7 | And then you asked. |
| 1:10.5 | And then I asked. And here we are. |
| 1:11.9 | So we should say where we are, we're in a beautiful room. We are. In the Stephen A. Schwartzman |
| 1:18.3 | building on 42nd Street, the main library to all of you out there who know the New York Public |
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