Visiting the City of Librarianly Love
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Frank and Gwen headed to Philadelphia and brought home the sights, sounds, and book recommendations of the Public Library Association's 2018 conference. Plus, hard-hitting journalism: Is breakfast the most important meal of a librarian's day?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to The Librarian is in the New York Public Libraries podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I'm Gwen. |
| 0:11.1 | And I'm the lesser half of Guank. Frank. Frank. And this is our very special PLA episode. |
| 0:20.1 | What does PLA mean, Gwen? |
| 0:21.9 | It means the Public Libraries Association. |
| 0:24.9 | Right. |
| 0:25.2 | And I'm using it as a shorthand for the conference that we just came back from in Philadelphia. |
| 0:30.1 | The Public Library Association Conference, which is a division of the American Library Association, of which we are both members. We are indeed. |
| 0:39.1 | And it was in Philadelphia last week. So Gwen and I went to Philadelphia. In the middle of a |
| 0:44.5 | snowstorm. In the middle of a snowstorm. Yeah. Well, this could say a lot about our personalities. |
| 0:48.6 | We are both Gwen's and my train were both canceled. So we had to reschedule. Gwen went really early the night before. She was supposed to be there, and I went late the day after. So she was there all by herself in the middle of a snowstorm, wandering Philadelphia, texting me with like, where am I? Where am I? And I was like, chilling at home. That was really sad that first day I couldn't find anywhere to eat lunch, and I was all alone. none of my friends were there yet. And I was like, chilling at home. That was really sad that first day I couldn't find anywhere to eat lunch. |
| 1:12.0 | And I was all alone. None of my friends were there yet. And I was like, what am I doing here? It was before the conference even started. You're so good, though. Good. I'm glad you felt guilty. That was my goal. Well, you had a lot on your plate because you did a presentation, but we'll get to that. Okay. I guess we should tell people if they don't know what the conference is like. |
| 1:28.9 | It's like any conference, lots and lots of people, a huge exhibits floor, which has |
| 1:34.6 | representatives of different library vendors, publishers, library systems, just about everyone |
| 1:42.7 | in public libraries is represented there. |
| 1:45.5 | And as an attendee, you can visit them, talk to them, meet authors, get free books, |
| 1:51.7 | find out about jobs in other library systems. |
| 1:54.7 | We had some press hours, so to speak, in the press room. |
| 1:59.7 | In the press room. |
| 2:00.7 | Shout out to Macy Morales from ALA. |
| 2:02.6 | She was so great and helpful and let us invade her space. |
| 2:05.6 | We received our fan. |
| 2:07.6 | There were multiple. |
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