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I'm Frank. And I'm read next? I'm Frank.

And...

And I'm Frank.

Can we be frank with you?

Let's all be frank together.

And later we'll be joined by Elizabeth Waters from the Mid-Manhatan library,

just down the street from us right now.

Hey.

Oh, by the way, here's the plug. Review us in iTunes. Yeah, we have, you could be a little more enthusiastic about it. But that's the thing about being a librarian. It's like, I have a thing about asking people to do stuff. I'd rather do stuff for them. I know. We all have kind of a problem with self-promotion. But the iTunes reviews, I will say, do make us really happy. The most recent one made me so happy. Thank you, person. Who wrote? Did you read it? Did you read it? It was just really nice. You should go read it. You'll show me later. I mean, I don't know how to find anything. I see the same three that have been there for a while. Do you know how to find our podcast? I don't need to. I'm living true. I'm living that particular dream. That's true. As long as it's not a nightmare. As long as it's not a nightmare. I was going to say something else, but I forgot. So it doesn't matter. How are you? I'm good. How are you? You're talking about doing things for people and liking it, not wanting to ask. Oh, self-promotion.

You're right. Actually, you actually had another thing I was possibly going to mention later if I ever got it together and remembered is that, yeah, libraries sort of do have an issue with self-promotion because there are things we do.

And I want to tell you about something the library did recently that when people say all the time,

maybe this is everywhere, but they say, I didn't know that happened at the library, or when did

that happen? Or why did I know? Or do you have an email blast? Do you have this? Do you have that?

And I'm always like, I want people to know we do things. I'm like, we do stuff.

What thing?

Well, I'm taking this opportunity,

and I know it's a program we did at Jefferson Market, and if you make fun of me and say anything snarky, I will fly up in the air and terrorize you. I actually feel even more great about

talking about it because it wasn't my idea, and I didn't

implement it. I was a support person for this project because it was my colleagues Corinne Neri

did this fantastic project on Friday. And basically she got a grant from the NYPL's

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