REBROADCAST: Rare books! ASMR! Oh my!, Ep 189
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Join Frank in welcoming his new co-host, Crystal Chen! This week they discuss what they've read the past week, as well as library school, rare books, and ASMR!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Libraries podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. |
| 0:21.9 | I am Frank and big day, a little nervous, definitely excited. |
| 0:30.6 | Rhonda's no longer here. |
| 0:32.8 | She's doing the good work at Schaumburg, and there a new co-host for the library it is in. |
| 0:40.5 | And so I'm really, like I said, nervous but excited to introduce Crystal Chen. |
| 0:47.0 | Hey Crystal. |
| 0:48.2 | Hi, Frank. |
| 0:50.2 | Are you nervous too? |
| 0:52.4 | Um, a little bit, I guess. |
| 0:54.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.2 | Well, good. |
| 0:57.3 | Well, good. Okay. |
| 0:59.1 | I want you to, I want to be totally in line with everything. |
| 1:03.1 | We have to agree on everything. |
| 1:05.3 | We have to be completely in sync. |
| 1:07.8 | We have to be a body of librarianship that will inspire and excite and |
| 1:14.5 | challenge everyone who listens. So we have to be as one. Yes, I'm into this. Oh my God. And it's like |
| 1:21.8 | getting to know you. Yeah. You know, I mean, it really will be like a getting to know you. |
| 1:29.1 | See, there's construction. |
| 1:33.3 | I'm in Jefferson Market Library, and we are under construction. |
| 1:38.4 | And I must say, the producer will let us know if it gets too crazy and if I have to move somewhere. |
| 1:45.6 | But there was a Twitter comment on a picture of Jefferson Market on Twitter that from one of our listeners, one of your listeners now, Crystal, who said she missed the, she liked the sounds of construction |
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