Dr. Carla Hayden is the Top Librarian

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Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.1 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Dr. Carla Hayden is the Librarian of Congress. In the 222 year history of the Library of Congress there has never before been a female Librarian of Congress, nor an African-American Librarian of Congress. Carla Hayden has broken many barriers. Dr. Hayden comes from a background of having run the Baltimore public libraries and from having a critical role in running Chicago’s libraries. On her first day in the job, what did she want to see, and hold, in the Library’s incredible collection? How can any citizen utilize the Library of Congress? And how can a library absorb 10,000 new items every single day? Carla Hayden holds the most important librarian’s job in the world - and she refers to librarians as the world’s “first search engines." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.9	Hi, I'm Kate Gibson.
0:35.3	Welcome to the bookcase with Kate and Charlie Gibson.
0:38.6	And this week I'm going to introduce myself as a candidate for a master's degree in library science.
0:46.2	And I will tell you why I'm introducing myself.
0:48.6	It happens to be true, by the way.
0:50.6	And I'll tell you why I introduce myself that way in just a moment.
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1:03.0	whose education is long since over. And I'm not sure even old dogs can learn new tricks. But anyway, we're going to talk this week to Carla Hayden, Dr. Carla Hayden. She has the most important librarian's job in the world. She is the chief
1:15.6	librarian of the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress is more than 200 years old,
1:22.6	and yet in its entire history, there has never been a woman who is the chief librarian at the Library of Congress.
1:31.5	Never in over 200 years.
1:34.4	And yet, there are 80% of the librarians in this country are women.
1:41.4	She's also the first African American to hold the job, and it is the absolute
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