Welcome to the librarian is in, the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.

I'm Frank.

I'm Gwen.

And today, it'll be, I'm reading Gwen's script. Don't read it.

It'll be me and Frank talking about books. No, it won't be. No, it's not. I'm sorry. All right. Today we have a very special guest.

A new, new librarian, I believe, to new york public library i know and her name is jennie chisnell

welcome jenny hi guys great to be here thanks for coming thanks for coming in i mean i know you

had emailed us and you had such interesting things oh first, first of all, you work at the 115th Street

library, which is now the Harry Belafonte. That's correct. Recently, I was at the naming ceremony

when Mr. Belafonte was there and it was quite just, you know, very humbling to be in his presence.

Wow. It's a great honor. Makes us very proud.

And so, yeah, that's who we are now.

And we have just, I want to do a shout out to my staff real quick, especially my manager,

Ms. Tequila Davis, and my many wonderful coworkers there who just work so hard and works so well together.

Oh.

Yeah.

I know Tequila.

Her name is Tequila Davis. I used to work with her Sundays way back when, but I used to always make fun of her because I'd be like, what's your favorite book, Tequila? Tequila Mockingbird. Oh, wow. Literary schick with librarians. So when you go back, tell her Frank says, she'll look at you blankly and be like, who? No, she's so sweet. She's wonderful. What will you call your library now instead of 115th Street? Is it just Belafonte? Is it Harry Belafonte? Well, when I answer the phone, I'll say, hi, this is the, Harry Belafonte 115th Street library So you say all that I do say the whole thing

Some of we often also answer with like Belafonte

You know but we're trying to get people acclimated you know

Any kind of name change is always a little bit of an adjustment right

Yeah eventually it'll turn into what it what it wants to be

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