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We're taking our library talk to TikTok.

Now, librarians across the country are using TikTok to amplify their local libraries

and encourage people of all ages to read.

Whether they're demonstrating how to walk into your local library with swagger,

or posing like the capybara's on children's books, or showing off their big print books for those of us with older eyes.

To the tune of Siza.

And they're having fun in season and all the girls aren't living.

And they're having fun while doing it.

Yes, it is library talk, librarian talk, libraries of TikTok.

This is Rea Gardner, a supervising librarian at Solano County Library.

Solano County, if you don't know, it's in northern California, right in between Sacramento and San Francisco.

So it's really, really diverse and just a lovely community.

I love working for Solano County. I grew up in Solano County.

Ray is one of the folks responsible for her library's TikTok account.

And here's one of her partners.

I used to work in our library's marketing department, and they saw my personal use of TikTok

and kept on trying to convince me to do it for Salano County Library.

That's Michael Threates. He's also a supervising librarian at Salano County Library.

I grew up in Salon County Library. I got my first library card at the library where I supervise now.

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