Immigrants in America
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Pam Nogales, a Ph.D. candidate at New York University, joins Gwen and Frank to talk about her newest class for Jefferson Market University—the free classes at Jefferson Market that are taught by college professors and open to everyone. They talk the history of politically radical immigrants in America, play the guessing game, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:08.2 | Welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Libraries podcast about books, culture, and what should read next? |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Gwen. |
| 0:14.2 | I'm Frank. |
| 0:15.0 | And we are so excited today to welcome Pam Nogales, who is teaching at Jefferson Market. |
| 0:22.0 | Okay, you take over. Go ahead. |
| 0:23.3 | I should take over. |
| 0:24.3 | We should introduce Pam. |
| 0:26.3 | You know, Jefferson Market, the library work in, we do classes, academic classes, |
| 0:32.9 | classes where we actually hire local professors from NYU, the new school, and they teach classes at the |
| 0:41.9 | library for the public, the public can take them for free. And I've done many, many, many classes. |
| 0:46.9 | I've organized many classes, and some of the most popular and certainly the most interesting |
| 0:51.5 | have been taught by NYU PhD candidate Pamela Nogales. |
| 0:57.1 | I love that you tried to say my name like my mother does. |
| 0:59.4 | Pamela Nogales. |
| 1:00.5 | And one other fun thing, and we're going to talk to Pam in a second, is that by happenstance, |
| 1:06.9 | Pam appears in the Frederick Wiseman documentary of the New York Public Library X Libris. |
| 1:12.4 | Frederick Wiseman chose a couple of locations outside of the 42nd Street location to film, |
| 1:16.9 | and in Jefferson Market was one of them. |
| 1:18.7 | And he had a couple of days to film, and it just so happened. |
| 1:21.1 | Pam was teaching a class. |
| 1:23.9 | And she is her, and he films her for a couple of minutes talking about her. |
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