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Summer Fun Secrets: There’s LOTS to do at Mandel Public Library! · Inside West Palm Beach

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Welcome to the City Center Podcast. I'm
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Gerry Marcelo. It's summertime in South
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Florida, which for parents means just one
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thing. How do you keep the kids
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entertained for the next couple of
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months? There's a simple and inexpensive
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solution if you're in West Palm Beach.
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The Mandel Public Library is your answer.
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We'll show you how the library is packed
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with fun activities for kids young and
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old this summer. That's next
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on the City Center Podcast.
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Joining me today is Christina Carollo,
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Communication Strategist for the City
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of West Palm Beach. Christina, welcome.
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Thank you for having me. Okay, now we're
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talking about summertime. Summertime is a
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time when parents are looking for ways
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to keep their kids entertained. When you
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see library, they go, "Well, okay, that's
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like two hours or an hour of looking at a
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book, and then what?" That's not the case
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at the Mandel Public Library, is it? No,
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not at all. So the library is four floors
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of fun, and for kids and adults, but
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especially the kids, on the third floor,
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there is a huge kids space up there. So
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there's books, there's toys, they have
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programming all summer long, every single
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day, every morning, they have like
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story times and stuff like that.
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Different programs like
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for art and whatnot. Usually
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they are registration based, so sometimes
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that's in the morning in person or maybe
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online, so you definitely have to check
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out on the website, like when that's
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going to be happening, but even if you
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just want to go in and sit in there and
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you know you want to cool off, like the
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kids can play with toys and stuff, but
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parents, there's computers up there, so
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they really wanted to
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sit on the computer.
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They could. So, well, let's break it down
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a little bit. So you've got four floors
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of good stuff there. Yes, indeed. Okay,
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so you went over real
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fast over some of the
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things, but just to sort of give it more
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detail, you have like first floor is just
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popular books, novels, right? Yes, so
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that is our popular and
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like new book section.
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Those are also where the express books
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are, so it's like if you're a fast
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reader and you can read a book in two
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weeks, pick them up there. If you need a
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lot longer like me, then the other floors
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are probably the best. Like the
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fourth floor is home to all of the most
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of the collection of the books. So new
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and popular on first floor, and then we
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have teens on the second floor. So even
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adults who enjoy young adult fiction can
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go into the teen section, check out a
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few books. It's really great. So there's
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great summer reading. Absolutely. What if
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I'm into audio? Is there like audiobooks
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about? Oh yeah, so you can actually get
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like the physical audiobooks if you want
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to like listen in your car kind of
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thing. There's like the CD versions. I
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don't know if they've got the tapes, it's
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a little old-school, but you can also do
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the online version. So they have plenty
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of like audiobooks, ebooks through like
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Hoopla or Cloud Library that you can
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access completely for free with your
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library card number. Well let's talk
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about that for just a quick session. A
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library card. Now, resident, you
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have to be a resident. So actually you
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don't. Oh you don't?
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You don't have to be a
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resident. Yeah, so for anyone who's
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living outside of West
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Palm Beach, we're not
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super sticklers. We welcome everybody. So
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as long as like you sign up, you have
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your license, you can come in and do it
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at the front desk on the first floor. You
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could do it online and it'll be mailed to
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you I believe, or you can pick it up in
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person. So if you're a Floridian and you
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want a library card, you can get one.
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That is awesome. I'm used to thinking,
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okay well I live in Lake Worth or I
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live in North Palm Beach. I can't go
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here. You can. You can.
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Yes. It's really fantastic.
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You're welcome to. Please do it. Also,
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for some people, even if you're out of
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state sometimes, you can get a library
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card. I don't know if that's a trade
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secret or not. But it's true. We're very
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welcoming to everybody because at the end
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of the day the goal is to get people
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reading and to give resources. Yeah.
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Because you know it's books for fun, but
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then it's also for education. And we have
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like tons, like biographies, memoirs,
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everything. Is there a minimum age for
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a kid, a child, or a student to get a
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book? You know? So I'm not sure by
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themselves what the age would be, but if
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they're with a
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parent. Okay. Yeah, I'd have
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to check into that. But kids can have
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library cards typically if they're teens,
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but I think that's a question for the
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actual librarians at the Mandel Public
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Library. Right. You can call them anytime
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and they'll be happy to answer your
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question. And I bet the information is
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probably available on the city website.
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Right. Yes. So go ahead.
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WPBCityLibrary.org.
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WPBCityLibrary.org. Okay, very good.
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Excellent. All right. So now we know we
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can get a card. That's fantastic. And so
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what we'll do is now we're wandering and
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we said, okay, you
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know, I found some good,
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a couple good books for me to read on the
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beach or for my son or daughter
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to read during the summertime to sort of
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build a book library. But there's more
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than just books. Tell us a little bit
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about what we're talking about.
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Absolutely. And it
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says it on the booklet.
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Okay. More than just books. Well, what is
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that? Tell me what that is. So this is
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the booklet that's put
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out every single month that
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breaks down all the programs that are
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happening in a month. So we have June and
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July here and we have some pictures that
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show us what happens in the library the
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month previous and then in here it breaks
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it down by floor and by section.
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So kids, teens, adults. Okay. Has
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everything. All right. So where can
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folks get that? So this you just go into
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the library and you can get it on any
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floor. Every desk they'll have some
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available right on the desk or you can
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get the digital copy on the library's
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website where you can actually flip
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through it like you would, you know,
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normally but in the digital version.
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Neat. Okay. So and that is like the tour
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guide, the itinerary
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for the entire summer.
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Absolutely. Yeah. It'll tell you
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everything that's going on and if you
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have to register or not to. And of course
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every single program at the library is
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free. So that's never an issue but
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sometimes they fill up really fast so
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they will do registration. You were
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talking about that earlier that
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obviously there's a lot of folks that are
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they think this is extremely
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great and very, very popular. So if you
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want to get a part of very popular
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programs it's smart to get there as early
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as possible to get registered. Is
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that correct? Yes. So for the kids
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sometimes they will have early morning
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registration before like story time. So
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you want to make sure that you're there
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in the window and that your name is
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signed up. But for other programs mostly
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for like adult programs even some teens
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if there is a registration typically you
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can do it online or for the art studio
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you can do it online as well. And that
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way it's secured you can even call and
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ask if you could be registered over the
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phone and then you'll get sent an email.
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Alright so to continue our tour of the
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library we talked a little bit about the
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first floor. Wonderful books you know
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reading for younger adults is fantastic.
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Let's move up. What's what's our next
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big stop as we tour the library? So if
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you go upstairs to the second floor that
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is the technology floor. It's also where
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you have the teen section so there's YA
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fiction up there and there's also a large
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collection of movies in the DVD
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format. We all remember that. So anybody
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who like would love to have the
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blockbuster experience, blockbuster date
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night or like if you're reminiscent you
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were at previous blockbusters like I was
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as a child. You can go and actually check
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out movies for free on a DVD. I'm old
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enough to remember when Netflix used to
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be a they send you a DVD. I remember that
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as a kid too. It's kind of like
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magical you put it in the DVD player
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usually like the bloopers are included
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and stuff like that. So there's
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definitely a magic there. Absolutely. So
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but that is available. Yeah so you get
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DVDs. Fantastic. Yeah and there is the
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limit is high. I think it's like
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past 20 DVDs at a time. I mean I don't
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know who's gonna be checking. You can
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fill a summer time with
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watching. Heck yeah. Wow. Good stuff and
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actual CDs too. So if you like listening
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to your music via CD you know an older
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cars my new car doesn't have it. You can
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grab a CD and it's really nice. That's
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fantastic. Okay so all right so we have a
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world of video and audio on the second
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floor. Yes and the Technology and
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Innovation Center plus the Art Studio.
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The second floor is a lot going on. Well
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tell me about this Innovation Center.
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What's that about? Yeah so the
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Technology Center, Technology and
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Innovation is always evolving. Right now
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they have like a 3D printer in there.
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They have a podcast studio booth where
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you can go in and record a podcast
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episode. You could
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record a song if you're
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you know can sing or if you're a musician
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and there is some equipment in
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there like a MacBook in there so you can
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record it. You can edit it and then save
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it on like a flash drive or email it to
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yourself or whatnot. How creative and so
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really neat. So there's a lot of
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innovative tools there for people to be
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creative on their own. Absolutely and
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they just got they have a VR headset and
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they just got it like a chair that you
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can sit in and it amplifies the
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experience. I haven't tried it myself but
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it sounds really cool. They have tons of
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different programming also workshops for
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if you want to learn you know how to do
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different kind of editing or digital art.
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There's always a one-on-one
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opportunity to with Eric who runs the
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TIC. Oh we know Eric.
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Eric's a good friend of
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ours. So there's staff there that will
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help you out if you don't know it right
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here. Okay all right. Very cool for
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anyone that wants to
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has like old movies and
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wants to digitize they can do that there
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as well like old tapes or anything and
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that's typically popular too or even like
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old photographs if you want to
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digitize those we have a whole station
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for that. Do you recommend especially
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things as popular like transferring video
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and you know to file format is
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that stuff that you want to go ahead and
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book time for can you reserve time? Yes
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yes you can book it ahead of time on the
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website or if you call the second floor
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the tech desk they'll be happy to block
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off times. Usually it's about a two-hour
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window but the librarians are always
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willing to work with you and find a time
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that works best for you. Wow just amazing
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tools at everyone's disposal. Okay so
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moving on what's what's on the what's are
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we going upstairs yet we're going to
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third floor? Let's stop at the art studio
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first and then we'll go upstairs. But
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yeah so the art studio is really
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cool too they'll have different programs
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all registration based. My favorite one
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is happy little paintings where you
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follow along to Bob Ross and he will
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teach you how to paint and it's just
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super fun and very nostalgic. So that
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one is super popular and there's other
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things I believe in July they have
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coming up a program where you can make a
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little bookcases as well so it's like
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just a little miniature very whimsical
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you can put it on your bookshelf. Yeah
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very fun stuff. I think I've seen those
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where it's like it's like a large
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book like little rectangle that has like
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a scene in it. It's all
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in a world and this one is
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like literally just a mini bookshelf. Oh
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it's like a bookshelf on your bookshelf.
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That's really cool. That's fantastic.
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Okay continue. So lots of great stuff
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there. Yeah so the second
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floor definitely check it out. There's
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also computers on the second floor so if
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you just want to go in and do anything
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under the Sun really if you know if
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reading an audio or reading an e-book you
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can do that. If you just want to
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surf the web you can do that. Some people
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will use it you know if they have to
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apply for a job they'll use the computers
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to do that as well. In this
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instance if you came there if you went
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there with your son or daughter you
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they could be lost looking at books and
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you can get on board and check local
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news or whatever you want to do. So
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things for the adults to do
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while they're at the library.
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Yes that's important. The library has
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something for everyone or even let's go
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back down to the first floor for a
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second. If you're familiar with Cilento
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coffee shop they have a window on the
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first floor so you can grab a book grab
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a treat maybe a little coffee sit down
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and enjoy both at the same time and it's
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really nice. You can't ask for more net.
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Exactly yeah especially like coffee.
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Either it's a really hot day and you want
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a nice coffee you read a book in the
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library or if it's raining which tends to
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happen during the summer get a nice
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hot drink and cozy up in a corner with a
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good book. Can't beat
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that. Okay definitely
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not. So is there anything else that we
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should talk about on the second floor? I
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think we're moving up. Okay moving on up.
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Yeah so we went over the third floor a
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little bit that's where the children's
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area is. Yeah.
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There's also the auditorium
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there where they have a lot of
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programming and different rooms there
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that people can actually rent out. That's
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all through the website you could I'm
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not sure of the rates or anything like
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that or how it works but if you ever
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want to rent out a room for like a
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lecture or something that's also
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available to people. And then the
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information is probably available on the
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website. Absolutely yeah and then let's
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go to the fourth floor. Okay now we're up
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to the fourth. We're up to the fourth.
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There's also computers up there as well
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for people to use. You can fax stuff up
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there which is cool if you need to print
23:56:16
things it's great. There's tons of books
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up there and there's some of people's
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favorite reading spots because there's a
23:56:22
nice big window up there too where
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people will sit in front of and just like
23:56:27
curl up with their book. There's
23:56:28
vaulted ceiling so it's really probably
23:56:31
the most beautiful area of the library.
23:56:34
It is actually tell a story about last
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year we had the opportunity to go and do
23:56:39
a live broadcast a live broadcast from
23:56:42
the fourth floor and it is so beautiful
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and so relaxing and the natural light
23:56:48
coming through it is a fantastic place
23:56:50
yeah to take a moment for yourself it's
23:56:53
fantastic. Yeah yeah people love it up
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there it's also the quiet floor so anyone
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who wants silence wants to study
23:57:00
wants to read and be at peace they can go
23:57:02
to the fourth floor. Peace. Yes and we
23:57:04
have the Florida room up there too which
23:57:06
is where a lot of history is kept
23:57:08
especially like Florida history you can
23:57:10
go in and learn some things so that's
23:57:12
very cool too. They really like maintain
23:57:15
it well keep things looking sharp so if
23:57:18
you have you know time and you want a
23:57:20
museum like experience go to the
23:57:22
Florida room. Yeah and the Florida room
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if I've been there and they have
23:57:26
newspaper clippings getting all the way
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back to the turn of last century
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essentially and you know they have they
23:57:34
have you know books and scrapbooks
23:57:37
showing all the events that were
23:57:38
happening not at this library obviously
23:57:40
since it's relatively new but going all
23:57:43
the way back to the other library that's
23:57:45
now the area that we have for you know
23:57:49
the Clamatus by Night and all those areas
23:57:51
down there so it covers a great deal it's
23:57:54
very very fascinating. Isn't that
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cool? Yeah. You can just go be a
23:57:57
historian for a day at
23:57:58
the library if you so choose
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which is very nice and then one of the
23:58:03
coolest things especially for the
23:58:04
summertime they have a seed library so if
23:58:07
you're into gardening or you want to get
23:58:09
into gardening they have this whole it's
23:58:12
literally like catalog of seed packets
23:58:15
there's herbs, flowers, vegetables and
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you can take up to six seed packets every
23:58:21
month per patron and every Monday the
23:58:24
first Monday of every month they add new
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seeds in. Wow. Yeah and there's
23:58:29
information too about like how to grow
23:58:31
that particular plant in the area. So it
23:58:33
could be flowers or it could be a
23:58:34
vegetable perhaps? Yeah. So what happens
23:58:37
if you keep the seeds too long and you
23:58:39
have and you haven't returned them do you
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have to like? Well you know I think
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the library would understand that's okay.
23:58:45
Maybe you have to bring back some
23:58:47
vegetables to make up for it as a
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penalty. I think that's good. Yes please
23:58:50
bring your local librarian a flower or if
23:58:53
you grow a tomato that's
23:58:54
great too. I have never
23:58:56
heard of a program like that where the
23:58:58
libraries is distributing seeds it's
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fantastic. Right? Isn't that so cool?
23:59:03
Yeah. I love that and it's completely
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free which is my favorite part about the
23:59:06
library. So we're at a point now where
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we're looking at weeks and
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weeks of summer and we've got kids who
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are probably just now sort of burning
23:59:15
out all the obvious stuff that they can
23:59:17
do like go to the beach or go to the
23:59:18
pool and now parents are starting to
23:59:20
panic. What am I gonna do to keep these
23:59:22
kids entertained? Okay so tell us what's
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happening what kind of things are
23:59:27
coming up specifically that people should
23:59:29
be looking out for. So I think
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it's really there's always stuff
23:59:33
happening every day I think that's
23:59:34
really the magic of it. So there's not
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even like that one big thing during
23:59:38
summer necessarily but they're having
23:59:39
stuff all the time. Like I happen to be
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on the teen program list right now for
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July. In that wonderful in the wonderful
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book with at the library. Yes shout out
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to Lucas who does this at the library. He
23:59:51
creates these booklets. So right now I'm
23:59:54
looking at very cool programming. There's
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a teen movie club so they'll play a movie
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for the teens. They
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can come in you know I
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believe they provide snacks even don't
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quote me but I
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believe there are snacks. So
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teens can get together do that. There's a
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teen game day that's Thursdays two to
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four in July and then teen hip-hop on
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Fridays which is really cool and also
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even flamingo coders which is teaching
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coding to like young
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up-and-coming coders.
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See I love that the reason why that's
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that strikes me as being so important is
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that you usually find like daycare during
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the summertime a little camps and
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stuff are geared towards very young
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children. Yeah okay and then you hit a
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point when you get to be a teen you're
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like yeah you know whatever just hang
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out and that's not really a good thing.
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Seeing these programs are specifically
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targeting teens that's smart that's
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really smart. Yeah indeed and there's so
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much going on here to get out of the heat
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because you know teens got a lot of
0:54
energy kids got a lot of energy but it is
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hot out there so being able to go in
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the library and do fun stuff like I just
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looked up and I see teens tie-dye
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that sounds so cool. Yeah so that's
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happening as well Saturday July 19th so
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all across the board and almost every day
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of the week they've got something
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they must average over like 150 programs
1:15
Wow a month and don't quote me I'm bad
1:17
with math. Yeah but it's important to
1:21
reiterate these programs have limited
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attendance so you really do need to get
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on you know sign up for them find a way
1:28
to get on the list so that they know
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you're coming and you're being a part
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of it. They're free. Yes and it'll always
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tell you if there's registration required
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or if you can just show up like some of
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like the auditorium like lectures that
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they do you can just show up which
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actually brings me to a fun point. There
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are two author talks coming up which are
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really cool. Let me in my handy-dandy
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notebook find that information for
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everyone because it is really cool
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they're also going to be doing book
1:58
signings. So the first author that will
2:01
be there is Leslie Gray Streeter. She has
2:04
a new book coming out called Family and
2:06
Other Calamities a Novel. So she was
2:09
award-winning or is an award-winning
2:11
journalist and podcast host. She would be
2:13
great on here. Yeah and she also used to
2:16
do the entertainment and lifestyle column
2:19
for 18 years at the Palm Beach
2:21
Post. Really cool. So that would be
2:25
amazing to sit down and to listen to her
2:26
talking about her new book and then to
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get it signed be awesome. And we have
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another individual coming named Tom
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Turner who will be discussing his career
2:37
in writing crime books also available
2:41
this July. So for adults that want to get
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out of the heat or get out of the rain
2:45
and want to you know. Are
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these in the middle of the day?
2:48
Or is it more towards evening? Yes. Let's
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look it up. I might jump
2:56
on some of that. You should.
2:58
So yeah it's if you have the July booklet
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it is on page 17 you can find it. So here
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we have it's gonna be 6 30 p.m. okay with
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Leslie Gray Streeter so that's 6 30
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7 30 and then 2 to 3 p.m. with Tom
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Turner. So July 18th Tom Turner 2 to 3
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and then Leslie Gray Streeter Wednesday
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July 9th at 6 30 to 7 30. Okay so you
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could easily go down
3:26
take part listen to this wonderful and
3:28
then maybe go get a bite on on Clemanis.
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Absolutely yeah that's perfect actually
3:34
after that you could go look
3:36
at the water even get a bite go
3:39
down to the water enjoy the sights it's
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really nice. Okay so what other items
3:43
should we talk about today?
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Oh what else do we have? So there is a
3:47
cool program coming up and if you are
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interested I definitely
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recommend looking into it and seeing if
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registration is required because there
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will be an American sign
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language learning the basics part one at
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the library in July.
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That's really cool so if you
4:04
want to learn a sign language this could
4:06
be the perfect
4:06
opportunity. Fantastic I mean that's a
4:09
great thing to learn and you know we
4:11
folks don't get the
4:12
opportunity to learn that skill and to
4:15
learn how to communicate I think that's
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fantastic. Yeah and there's other so we
4:19
have a whole section
4:20
in the back pages 18 19 that are
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community resources and
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there's even like ESOL English
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conversation groups where people can
4:29
practice talking in English
4:32
to each other speaking English
4:33
to each other and then there's actually
4:35
on page 19 programs that
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are in Spanish for people that
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are interested in different programming
4:41
so there's also that
4:43
page dedicated to people who
4:46
might have a better understanding if it's
4:47
in their native language. So
4:50
it seems to me like there is
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there's something for everyone no matter
4:54
what age you could be a
4:56
toddler you could be you know a
4:59
tween you could be a teenager and there's
5:00
always something for you
5:02
to do this on that. Yeah and
5:04
that's the wonderful thing it's whatever
5:06
you want I mean you go into
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the library and you can really
5:09
hone it your experience to what you're
5:12
feeling that day maybe it's
5:13
finding a DVD or a book or
5:16
it's doing a program it's you know taking
5:18
part in an art class or
5:19
just talking to a librarian.
5:21
Librarians love talking about books
5:22
they're very friendly you can always go
5:24
up to the desk ask any
5:26
questions it's a really great place also
5:29
just to make friends I feel
5:31
like people come in and they
5:33
do meet other people who are reading
5:34
similar books or in the same program so
5:37
it's just a great part
5:38
of our like social infrastructure. It's a
5:41
hub for the community right
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absolutely that's fantastic
5:45
well all right we've covered a lot of
5:46
ground and we talked about many things
5:49
let's once again remind
5:50
people how they can get information about
5:53
what's going on. Absolutely
5:54
so I would say the best thing
5:56
to do if you're in the area grab a
5:58
booklet because this will give you the
5:59
rundown but also you can go
6:01
to wpbcitylibrary.org at any time and
6:06
everything that's going on
6:07
will be on there this booklet
6:08
will be available they also have their
6:12
separate event listings like
6:13
a calendar listing and then
6:15
you can register directly online. Also I
6:19
don't know if we covered
6:19
this but one of their big things
6:21
going on right now is their summer
6:23
reading program. Oh tell us about it
6:25
please. Which is really cool so
6:26
we definitely have to end on books you
6:28
know just feels right. Library. But
6:30
exactly so the theme is
6:33
color our world and adults can take part
6:37
as well as teens and kids so if you go
6:40
if you want to sign up for this if you're
6:44
serious about it
6:45
there are prizes involved.
6:47
I know you can go to
6:48
mandelpubliclibrary.beanstack.com
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and Beanstack is a platform where you can
7:04
actually log all the books that you're
7:06
reading and leave reviews
7:08
and every time that you do you can open
7:10
different uh what's the word I forgot.
7:18
And every time you do you can complete
7:20
challenges you get tickets
7:22
that you can put in drawings for
7:23
actual prizes they have really good prize
7:26
bundles that they share on like social media
7:27
and whatnot and also through Beanstack
7:30
you can see what it is it
7:32
could be a tote bag, free books
7:34
all kinds of fun stuff yeah and usually
7:37
books themed which is
7:38
really nice um so yeah and I
7:41
think for adults you only have to read up
7:43
to five books to
7:45
complete the whole challenge
7:46
and then you get the opportunity to
7:48
submit tickets to win
7:49
prizes and that's always great so
7:51
I highly recommend and for the kids I
7:55
believe it's done by minutes read so not
7:58
necessarily the amount
7:59
of books but if they spent 10 minutes 15
8:01
minutes they can log those
8:02
minutes and then also have the
8:03
opportunity to get prizes which is
8:05
awesome. That's fantastic
8:07
so they're fun games contests
8:10
resources to to take advantage of all
8:13
during the summer it's it's
8:14
uh it is the center for summer
8:16
it'd be a great place to stay it really
8:18
is and now that we're talking about it something else comes
8:20
to mind which is amazing because it's
8:22
never ending at the library
8:23
honestly I'm probably not even
8:25
scratching the surface but there also is
8:28
Collection Connection which is a
8:30
partnership with the Mando
8:31
Public Library and Art Life WPB so that's
8:34
a public art program here at
8:36
the city so you get a little
8:38
booklet you can go to the fourth floor if
8:40
you're an adult or the third
8:41
floor if you're a child and
8:43
there's booklets that you go through and
8:45
it might be like go find a
8:47
piece of art around the city
8:48
which there are 80 plus pieces of artwork
8:51
public art available in
8:52
the city and there might be a
8:54
prompt or write a poem about this how
8:56
does it make you feel and you fill out
8:58
this book then you bring
8:59
it back to the library and you show them
9:01
that you finished it and
9:02
you completed the challenge
9:04
and you will get a
9:05
little collector's pin.
9:07
Oh that's nice.
9:08
Right in that lovely it's a little pin to
9:10
take home and then you
9:11
can also be entered into
9:13
a prize drawing so there's so many
9:16
opportunities for prizes at the library
9:18
which is great we love
9:19
prizes. There is no reason for anyone to
9:21
be bored during the
9:22
summer here in the city.
9:23
Absolutely not yeah just walk into the
9:25
library and like start a
9:26
conversation with someone at
9:27
the front desk and there's a treasure
9:29
trove they can like point you in the
9:31
right direction which
9:32
floor to go to which you know section for
9:35
whichever genre you're
9:36
looking for there's tons.
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Well kudos to our friends over at the
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Mando Public Library it is
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amazing what they provide.
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And thank you for all your time today
9:45
sharing with us how we
9:47
make the most of Mando Public
9:48
Library during the summer. Yes please go
9:50
to the library it's the
9:51
best. And thank you for
9:53
joining us for the City Center podcast
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this is a production of
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the City of West Palm Beach
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Communications Department. I'm Jerry
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Marcello we'll see you next time.