Gwen's Book Flare
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
What's the opposite of a book slump? We're calling it a flare, and Gwen is on one. She and Frank have a flurry of adult book recommendations, from dystopian novels to innovative science fiction.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to the library and is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I'm Gwen. |
| 0:11.5 | And I'm Sir Francis Sticky Note. Do you wonder why my name is Sir Francis Sticky Note today? |
| 0:16.8 | I'm so curious. Why might that be? Because New York Public Library, actually all New York City |
| 0:23.4 | libraries, Brooklyn, Queens, and New York Public are going through what we call advocacy. |
| 0:28.7 | Happy advocacy season, everyone. Right. Which is sort of the budget. Budget gets decided for the city |
| 0:35.7 | and the library has to show we got what it takes and the public |
| 0:40.9 | comes out to support us and so I am Sir Francis Sticky Note because the three library systems |
| 0:47.8 | have a very cool thing of where the public where you anyone can write a little love note to the library um on a virtual sticky |
| 0:58.3 | note and it's at notes dot invest in libraries dot org notes dot invest in libraries dot org and you could fill |
| 1:10.4 | out a little sticky note to your favorite library in New York |
| 1:13.3 | City like Jefferson Market where I work there are a bunch of Jefferson Market love notes |
| 1:19.1 | love sticking I was going to say is there a little contest in between the branches of |
| 1:22.6 | you know you know I really honestly don't feel it but when I I look at them, then I'm like, wait, where are the Jefferson Markets? |
| 1:30.8 | And when you find it, you're like, oh, and it makes you feel good. |
| 1:34.4 | That's true. |
| 1:34.8 | There are a couple about book recommendations and blog posts, and I get that feeling to you. |
| 1:38.8 | It's sort of nice. |
| 1:39.6 | I mean, you get tweets at you and things like that. |
| 1:41.6 | And what's really lovely is that the only person called out on the sticky notes for Jefferson Market |
| 1:48.6 | are a children's library, Rebecca. |
| 1:50.3 | Oh, that's great. |
| 1:50.9 | Which I really love. |
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