DIY ASMR, Library-Style
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This episode is brought to you by our soon-to-be-rival podcast, dreamed up by YA librarian Crystal Chen—who's also this week's guest! All rights reserved by her! We talk musicals, poetry, what it really means to create a list of "best" books, and professional development for library staff members.
Book Recommendations
NYPL's Best Poetry Books (and our most recent best books lists)
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
Bad Blood Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Kiss Number 8 by Colleen A.F. Venable
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Also recommended:
The Woodstock Library in the Bronx
ASMR, or autonomous sensory meridian response
"VEEP" and "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody. Welcome to the librarians in the New York Public Libraries podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I'm Gwen. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Frank. And we are joined today by one of my favorite YA librarians, Crystal Chin, |
| 0:21.9 | from the Woodstock branch. Hi. Hi. And I also feel like you say that about every |
| 0:26.3 | Y.A. Libran, I'm on to you, Gwen. You know, it is true. I really have a soft spot for Y.A. |
| 0:31.5 | librarians. I feel like you're my people. So if I ask Susan, who's your favorite. |
| 0:40.9 | Don't ask Susan. Or Grace. Or Grace, or or Brian or any of the other people. Oh, they won't hear this. I can have more than one favorite. |
| 0:46.3 | I always tell my son that you can have more than one best friend. So that's the same thing. |
| 0:50.0 | That's true. That's true. Okay. Hi. Hi. Thank you so much for coming. |
| 0:54.1 | Thank you for having me here. Do you want to tell us a little bit about how you got here? Not physically to the studio. Not literally, but like in life. In life. Like I was born in a hospital in China. Sure. Yeah. Start from there. Go back as far as you like. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't know, like, in terms of, like, librarianship. |
| 1:14.6 | No. Go back as far as you like. Do you remember that? Oh, yeah. I mean, I don't know, like in terms of like librarianship. No, in terms, well, sure, whatever you feel comfortable. |
| 1:16.6 | Sure, okay. |
| 1:17.6 | Just to give us a little bit about you. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah, um, so I kind of like fell into librarianship just because, like, in my undergrad and grad school, I did a lot of work-study in a lot of libraries. |
| 1:29.7 | I moved to, like, New York about, like, five years ago. |
| 1:32.8 | I was, like, working three jobs, one of them at that Performing Arts Center, Frank. |
| 1:37.3 | We'll get to that. |
| 1:39.9 | And I just, like, really enjoyed working with teenagers. |
| 1:43.3 | I find them to be such a, like, bright, imaginative, funny bunch of people. |
| 1:48.6 | And, like, I decided to be a librarian full time after going to get my MSLIS at Pratt. |
| 1:56.0 | And, like, it's been a lot of fun, yeah. |
| 1:58.8 | Awesome. |
| 1:59.6 | And what library do you work in now? |
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