Pop-Culture Storytime (with Garfield)
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
What makes a good story time? Anthony Murisco, youth librarian extraordinaire, joins Frank and Gwen to talk all things kids and books. Plus: everyone's favorite lazy cartoon cat, a true stumper of a guessing game, and a flurry of pop-culture recommendations.
In This Episode:
Anthony's library: The Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library
NLS: The National Library Service for the blind and physically handicapped
A book Anthony likes for storytime: Jump by David McPhail
NYPL's Best Books for Kids and Teens and Anthony's 2017 list with Bookshare links
"Book That Talk and Books You Touch": Jill Rothstein's TLII episode about technology for print-disabled patrons
Kris Jenner... and All Things Kardashian (and her cookbook)
Fake Blood by Whitney Gardner
Jabberwalking by Juan Felipe Herrera
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina by Roberto Aguierre-Sacasa (and RIVERDALE!)
Garfield: The Complete Works, 1978-1979 (coming soon to the Library!)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I'm Gwen. I'm Frank. And we are here today with Anthony Marisco. We are super psyched to have you. |
| 0:21.6 | Thanks for coming. |
| 0:22.6 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:23.6 | Do you want to tell everyone what you do? |
| 0:24.6 | What is your official title? |
| 0:26.6 | So my official title is the youth librarian at the high school library, the Andrew High School Library. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm in charge of zero to 18 years. |
| 0:35.6 | All the programming, most of the programming. |
| 0:39.6 | So what are your zero-aged patrons like? |
| 0:42.5 | Pretty good. |
| 0:43.7 | You know. |
| 0:45.2 | Easy to serve them. |
| 0:46.3 | No complaints. |
| 0:47.5 | They just kind of sit there and stare. |
| 0:49.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.9 | Can you tell us what kind of patrons you work with here at the library? |
| 0:53.4 | There you go. |
| 0:53.7 | So the Andrew Heist's library is a weird library in that it's both a... |
| 0:59.0 | Aren't we all? |
| 0:59.7 | Aren't they all? |
| 1:00.7 | Well, this is a neighborhood branch, and it's part of the National Library Service, |
| 1:04.7 | which is the government's branch that serves patrons who are visually impaired, |
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