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

I'm Gwen. And I'm Frank. And later, we're going to be joined by Lobash, who is the manager of Reader Services. And your boss. And my boss. Even though she doesn't want to be, she does not boss me around and she doesn't like to be referred to as my supervisor, which shows why she is such a good boss. Yeah. I hate it too. Like we had Brian last time. We joke about boss, but like, but Supervisor is such a terrible word too.

Yeah. I hated too. Like we had Brian last time and we joke about boss, but like, but supervisors

are such a terrible word too. Yeah. The hierarchy of it sounds to supervise. Like you don't supervise me.

No. You're not the boss of me. We're colleagues together. Exactly. Exactly. To do the same thing,

which is serve the public. But she, I will say, Lynn is really amazing in terms of her, like, vision for reader services.

She sort of, like, created it, and she's been the first manager of it, and her vision for it is so crystal clear and is something I appreciate so much about it.

That's one great one, many of many great things about how NYPL has changed is bringing that department

back really. I mean, reader services existed years and years ago, but not in my, even my career.

I don't think in its current form either. I don't think it was called reader services. It was

I always, whenever I see Lynn, who's hilarious and like salt of the earth and really funny,

and I always just tell her very seriously how grateful I am she exists.

I know. And you too. I mean, by your department is such a wonderful thing. And it's so necessary. So,

yay. Let's just stop podcasting now and I'll hug. Let's just all go hug. We'll chuck Lynn. She'll be like, get off me.

Oh, right. She's no nonsense too. She nonsense, too. She'll put us in our places. So what have you been reading, darling? So I finished the other Boleyn girl. So my committee is done. The Best Books for Teens Committee is done. We have chosen all 50 books. It will be released December 1st.

It's going to be so exciting.

I think the list is so good and so strong.

It actually, here I'll give you a tiny, tiny teaser.

It broke out into this perfect little arrangement of 30 fiction books and 10 nonfiction and 10 non-graphic novels.

Just by...

Isn't that great?

Just by total coincidence. Yeah. Yeah, because the way, it's like this very democratic process about the way that we go about voting on stuff and there's a wiki and we're all keeping track of everything we're reading. And then at the very end, we had a full days meeting, eight hours of meeting where we all just kind of got down to it and fought it out about the books. And it was

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