The (Rare) Book Thief

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True Crime, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Greg Priore was thrilled to be named the head archivist and manager of the special collections room at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He’d been trained in archives management and had an appreciation for the rare books he was now expected to protect. 25 years after Priore’s appointment to the role, the library decided to do an inventory of their special collection. That’s when they discovered that over three hundred rare and valuable items were missing. And there had only been one person who’d had constant access to the collection for all those years: Greg Priore. A Somethin' Else production. Exclusive! Grab the NordVPN deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/cheat Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The library is blessed with two historical collections that deal not only with Carnegie
0:16.8	himself but represent his interests when he was a young boy.
0:24.0	This is Greg Pryori, and he's talking about the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
0:29.8	Andrew Carnegie, a big-time steel tycoon from 19th century America, wasn't just a capitalist.
0:35.8	He was a philanthropist who funded the arts and this library.
0:39.8	Carnegie really had a love for learning and through this wonderful institution felt that this would be a way for the public to escape into another world.
0:58.8	Pryori talks a lot about Carnegie because it's a part of his job.
1:02.8	He works at the Carnegie Library and he's got a pretty special setup.
1:07.8	Now Pryori, he's not just any old librarian.
1:13.8	He's an archivist up on the third floor in the William R. Oliver special collections room.
1:21.8	In this room, it's special for sure.
1:24.8	It's filled with all these rare books, original drawings and prints, old maps, manuscripts, you know, archival things.
1:33.8	Like think Bach, Mark Twain, Dickens.
1:37.8	There's about 30,000 items in this collection.
1:40.8	In any room that holds precious and valuable items like this, it needs a guardian.
1:47.8	You can't just have somebody walking out with the original version of Moby Dick in their backpack.
1:54.8	The guardian, that was Greg Pryori, a meticulous gatekeeper.
1:59.8	He even studied archives management at the University of Pittsburgh in the early 90s.
2:05.8	Did y'all even know that there was a thing to study like archives management?
2:11.8	So we're talking about an archivist who trained in these very archives.
2:17.8	And in 1992, he was appointed the sole archivist and manager of the prestigious Oliver Room.
2:24.8	In 1991, the library hired appraisers to come in and look at the collection.
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