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In honor of Black History Month, all February,

this podcast will be dedicated to featuring African Americans

whose voices and perspectives you need to hear.

We'll have a new episode every Tuesday, but if you're a fan of the podcast, you know we feature prominent black voices all year long.

So we've chosen a few older episodes to republish every Thursday to reacquaint you with some of them.

This week, Dr. Carla Hayden, the first African American

and first woman to lead to the Library of Congress.

Dr. Hayden, thank you very much for doing this, for having us here.

I think I told you before when we were at a wonderful museum setting that the Library Congress is one of the best kept secrets but we don't want to be a secret.

Right and we're going to get to the part that's not a secret in a minute but the reason why I wanted to come here and talk to you and get a look around this place is that

it's palpable even just right now that you love your job and not just being librarian of Congress,

but being a librarian.

How did that happen?

How did you get this love of books and libraries and research and history.

I'm the product of two classically trained musicians

and my earliest memories are

in being in a practice room, my dad on the violin, my mom at the piano, and

them putting me under the piano with toys and then books. And as I was listening to music,

I was associating that with text.

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