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Speaker 1: Hey there.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Growing Up with Emily, a Lingo kids podcast.

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Speaker 2: It helps kids discover how to be whatever they want

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Speaker 2: to be. Growing up.

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Speaker 3: Will be side bowing up up the side.

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Speaker 2: Do you love reading books about adventure, magic, or history?

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Speaker 2: Today we explored the awesome and imaginative world of librarians

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Speaker 2: and all that they do. Here we are Winston the

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Speaker 2: New York Public Library.

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Speaker 1: Oh fools, what are we doing here? Emily?

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Speaker 2: I've got a ton of books to return. Can you

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Speaker 2: help me carry them inside?

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Speaker 1: Sure? Yeah, I don't mind.

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Speaker 2: Thanks. Now hold out your arms for me and I'll

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Speaker 2: stack them up.

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Speaker 1: Okay, duh, that is a lot books? Just one more?

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Speaker 1: Ooh you should like to read, Emily.

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Speaker 2: Of course I do. I'm an engineer, I'm curious by nature,

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Speaker 2: and I know for a fact that you are too.

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Speaker 1: Did Sure?

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Speaker 4: I guess I'm just not in the mood, you know,

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Speaker 4: for being stuck inside on a sunny, beautiful day.

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Speaker 2: Oh come on, Winston. You can enjoy the library whether

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Speaker 2: it's rain or hail or shine. I think of libraries

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Speaker 2: as magical places full of hidden treasures just waiting to

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Speaker 2: be dug out.

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Speaker 1: Hidden treasures.

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Speaker 2: Huh yep, and not to mention all the different kinds

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Speaker 2: of people you can meet from your community author meet

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Speaker 2: and greets where you can get to know people behind

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Speaker 2: the movie nights.

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Speaker 4: Okay, now we're talking. Actually we're doing a lot of talking.

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Speaker 1: Can we go inside down of course?

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Speaker 2: And perfect diming Winston, Here comes the rain.

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Speaker 1: Duh. If that was close, so much for it being

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Speaker 1: a sunny day.

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Speaker 2: Huh. Another minute under that shower and we'd have been drenched.

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Speaker 2: And so with these books.

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Speaker 4: Turns out coming to the library was a pretty neat

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Speaker 4: idea after all.

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Speaker 1: Check out the lion statues. Oh, and these gigantic windows.

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Speaker 2: And the grand staircases and bookshelves that go on forever.

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Speaker 2: Did you know that the New York Public Library has

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Speaker 2: been around for more than one hundred years.

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Speaker 1: That's ancient.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's pretty old, but not exactly ancient. If you

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Speaker 2: want to know about ancient libraries, I'd have to take

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Speaker 2: us all the way back to the Library of Alexandria,

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Speaker 2: one of the most marvelous institutions that ever existed, The.

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Speaker 1: Library of Alexandria.

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Speaker 2: Where's that I borrowed a book on it? In the

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Speaker 2: sack you're carrying here, Let's open it up and I'll

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Speaker 2: show you. It says here that the Library of Alexandria

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Speaker 2: was in Egypt. Back then, it housed the most books

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Speaker 2: and scrolls of any other place in the world, and

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Speaker 2: some of the greatest minds of all time invented awesome

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Speaker 2: things here too, like Archimedes, he invented one of the

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Speaker 2: very first ever water pumps while studying at the library.

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Speaker 4: The Library of Alexandria. What an awesome and inspirational place

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Speaker 4: we should visit.

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Speaker 2: I wish we could wincent, but unfortunately it's not around anymore. Apparently,

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Speaker 2: the whole library was accidentally burned down over two thousand

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Speaker 2: years ago by Julius.

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Speaker 4: What how did Caesar accidentally burn down an entire library?

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Speaker 2: According to the historian in this book, Caesar was fighting

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Speaker 2: some ships in the harbor, trying to protect his love Cleopatra,

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Speaker 2: so he decided to set fire to the ships, and

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Speaker 2: the fire spread quickly up the dock and into the village.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, and the whole library, all the books inside,

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Speaker 1: went up in flames. That's so sad.

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Speaker 2: We don't know if all the books and scrolls were lost,

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Speaker 2: but it seems like many were. It really was a

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Speaker 2: very tragic loss and humanity lost a lot of knowledge

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Speaker 1: What a sad story, Emily.

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Speaker 4: Imagine all those books on medicine, comedies, tragedy, poetry, cookbooks,

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Speaker 4: just delete it like they never existed, like prints on

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Speaker 2: Wow, Winson, that's very poetic. The Library of Alexandria really

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Speaker 2: was one of the greatest libraries on the entire planet.

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Speaker 2: Some say it had a copy of every book ever

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine how much space that would even take up? Winston?

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Speaker 1: Well, enough to fill a whole ice skating rink. Probably well.

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Speaker 2: The New York Library where we are now has more

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Speaker 2: than six million books, paperbacks, hard backs, E books, audiobooks, music, movies,

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Speaker 2: everything your heart desires.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 4: I sure am glad they kept building libraries after the

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Speaker 4: Library of Alexandria.

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Speaker 2: Meets you, Winson. Thankfully, there are hundreds and thousands of

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Speaker 2: them in almost every country of the world. Now, let's

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Speaker 2: see if there's anything you'd like to take home today.

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Speaker 4: Oh wow, there's just so many options just to choose.

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Speaker 2: From in don't panic. Why don't we narrow it down

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Speaker 2: a bit? How about we start with the letter. That'll help.

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Speaker 2: Let's think of a fun topic you'd like that starts

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Speaker 1: A topic that starts with se. No, I know what

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Speaker 1: about castles?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, castles, They aren't all the best stories. Robin Hood, Cinderella, Sleeping.

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Speaker 2: Beauty, great topic, Hincent castles are beautiful and they've been

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Speaker 2: around for a really long time. One of the oldest

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Speaker 2: and biggest castles, the Citadel of Aleppo, was built in

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Speaker 2: Syria thousands of years ago, even before there were calendars.

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Speaker 1: One of the biggest castles.

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Speaker 4: Huh, well, that's gotta be in one of these books.

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Speaker 2: But which one great question? Let's go ask the librarian

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Speaker 2: to help us. The internet is good for a lot

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Speaker 2: of things, but it's what the same as a real life, walking,

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Speaker 2: talking expert. Come on, follow me over to the reference desk, Winston,

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Speaker 2: and we'll ask the librarian if she can help us

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Speaker 2: find your book on castles. She's scanning that sack of

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Speaker 2: old newspapers so that people who visit the library's website

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Speaker 2: will be able to read what was happening in the

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Speaker 2: world when the paper was printed. Saving and conserving old books, magazines,

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Speaker 2: and newspapers is a big part of a librarian's job

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Speaker 2: these days. Once she scans these newspapers into the computer,

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Speaker 2: it will preserve our history so that everyone can read

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Speaker 2: about it online whenever they want.

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Speaker 1: But there's just so many books here that I don't

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Speaker 1: even know where to start. Do you think you could

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Speaker 1: help me?

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Speaker 4: You can find all books about castles in section nine fifteen. Wow,

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Speaker 4: she knew exactly where books about castles were.

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Speaker 2: Impressive, huh. But librarians have a bit of hope. Most

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Speaker 2: public and school libraries use what's called the Dewey decimal

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Speaker 2: system to help them organize and find the oodles and

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Speaker 2: oodles of books that are on the shelves.

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Speaker 1: The Dewey decimal system.

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Speaker 4: Oh, is that why all the books in a year

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Speaker 4: of colorful stickers with long numbers?

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Speaker 2: You're exactly right, Winston. The sticker on the spine on

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Speaker 2: each book tells us exactly where the book lives in

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Speaker 2: the library. Oh, we're close here, section nine one four

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Speaker 2: and nine one five. Your book should be right around here, Winston.

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Speaker 1: Let's see castles castle.

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Speaker 4: So oh, the books on castles are just a little

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Speaker 4: too high up.

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Speaker 2: Careful, let me help you.

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Speaker 4: Oh no, no, I almost got it, Winson, Are you Okay,

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Speaker 4: oh yeah, that book hit me right where my brain hurts.

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Speaker 2: Next time you need to reach for a book, it's

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Speaker 2: best practice to ask for the librarian. That's what they're

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Speaker 2: here for.

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Speaker 4: This is the book, the book on castles I wanted.

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Speaker 4: There's so many awesome pictures of castles in here too.

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Speaker 4: Just check out the inside of this tower. He whoa,

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Speaker 4: here's a picture of a great big haul with a

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Speaker 4: yummy feast.

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Speaker 2: Well wincent. Now that you found what you're looking for,

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Speaker 2: we can go check out the book so you can

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Speaker 2: take it home.

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Speaker 4: Okay, wait, what do you mean by check out books, Emily,

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Speaker 4: I thought this was free.

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Speaker 2: It means you can borrow a book for a few

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Speaker 2: days to take it home and read. Then when you're

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Speaker 2: all done with that one, you can come back and

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Speaker 2: get a new one. Pretty neat.

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Speaker 1: Huh Yeah, I can't believe. You can borrow any book

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Speaker 1: you want.

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Speaker 2: As long as you have a library card. A library

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Speaker 2: card is like your golden ticket to borrow whatever you

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Speaker 2: want in the library, like books, movies, or even board games.

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Speaker 4: Okay, want to get a library card. Then I can

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Speaker 4: come to the library whenever I want, and I can

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Speaker 4: read mysteries, cookbooks and even ghost stories.

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Speaker 2: Woo. More than that, the library provides us with quiet

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Speaker 2: spaces to read and discover topics we've never even thought about,

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Speaker 2: from thick encyclopedias to manga and anime comics. But there's

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Speaker 2: nothing better than just escaping into a good book.

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Speaker 4: Escaping into a good book. Oh, I like the sound

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Speaker 4: of that, Emily, hold on, do you mean literally escaping

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Speaker 4: into a book?

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Speaker 1: Like real?

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Speaker 2: What I mean is reading a really good book can

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Speaker 2: transport you to new and exciting worlds. It lets your

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Speaker 2: imagination run wild. Let me show you. Grab a book

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Speaker 2: off the shelf for me. One that looks interesting.

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Speaker 4: Okay, this one with the swords on the front, the

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Speaker 4: three Musketeers.

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Speaker 2: Ah, a classic. Why don't you grab a chair and

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Speaker 2: just try reading a few pages of it. Maybe you'll

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Speaker 2: see what I mean about being transported to another world.

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Speaker 4: Wow, the sword fight while there's knights and horses too.

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Speaker 1: I can almost see it.

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Speaker 2: There is that imagination coming out all right, Wincent, Time

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Speaker 2: to check out our books. Let's give them to the

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Speaker 2: librarian so she can scan them for you.

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Speaker 4: Here you go, and uh, thanks for your help earlier.

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Speaker 4: Oh wait, before we go, look at this awesome kids section.

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Speaker 4: There's even couppyholes to put your stuff.

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Speaker 1: In and feedback chairs.

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Speaker 4: Uh, so we can send and relax and read or

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Speaker 4: take a break.

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Speaker 1: It's just so cool.

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Speaker 2: Why don't we get you back to the lab so

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Speaker 2: that you can really dig into your book about Oh?

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Speaker 1: I can't wait. I just want to know everything there

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Speaker 1: is to know about.

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Speaker 4: Draw bridges and moats and towers. Oh and dragons? Wait,

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Speaker 4: are dragon's real? What about wizards?

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining us today on our trip

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Speaker 2: to the New York Public Library. We had a great

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Speaker 2: time discovering more about librarians, and we hope you did too.

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Speaker 2: Check out your local library if you're interested in picking

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Speaker 2: up a book of your own. See you next time.

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