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Christina Cornelison - Madison County Library · Look Who's Talking

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  You are listening to
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  Look who's talking.
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  I am your co-host, Cameron Minter.
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  And today we have a special sitting host.
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  We got Keisha Richardson.
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  Hey, Keisha.
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  Hello, world.
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  Hello, Cameron.
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  How are you doing today?
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  I am good, my friend.
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  How are you?
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  I'm well.
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  I'm well.
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  You sitting in the booth for our Head Start director, Jessica.
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  That's right, my boss lady.
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  We're going to make it do what it do.
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  That's what we're going to do.
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  Hey, I got a quick question for you.
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  Sure.
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  Have you been to any concerts this year?
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  Not this year.
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  Y'all just don't know Keisha been in here singing a face off the entire behind the scenes.
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  So yeah, yeah.
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  I love, I don't know about you.
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  I love music first of all.
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  I do.
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  But I absolutely love a live band.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, it gives something to you, it kind of does something to your soul.
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  Yes, yes.
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  So what was the last one you went to and how was it?
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  So I'm going to tell you, my last one actually was Honey Child.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  My last one.
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  And the whole night was just magical.
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  Oh.
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  Yeah, I mean, I was there just with friends, a couple of my line sisters.
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  We had a good time.
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  And oh my gosh, just the songs they would sing, we would sing along.
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  Yeah, we just felt like, you know.
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  Well, like I said, Keisha, you've been singing since you got here.
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  So, but my favorite, well, okay, so I asked you your last one.
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  What is your favorite?
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  My favorite, this is going to date me a little bit.
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  I'm going to date myself, I'm right behind you.
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  All right, so my first concert and my, and I guess my only big stage concert was Whitney Houston.
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  It was a present.
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  Oh.
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  And oh my goodness.
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  That's a present.
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  Yes.
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  What did you do after that?
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  After Seven was hers.
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  Was the band that started it all?
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  Yeah.
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  Oh my goodness.
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  And then what happened was everything got quiet, right?
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  She had performed something.
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  She was in red.
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  She looked stunning and it got quiet.
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  And I was like, Whitney, I love you.
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  And she actually looked in my direction and she was like, I love you too.
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  I said, yes.
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  And I mean, she was amazing.
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  Just the night she, I mean, she just glowed.
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  It was absolutely amazing.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah.
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  So mine was Prince.
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  Oh.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Prince.
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  That's the one my mama was supposed to go to.
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  Right.
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  Because she ain't get to go.
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  I'm telling you, he was such a performer.
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  I know he was.
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  It was a great show.
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  And you know how you just want to freak out, but you got to stay in the moment.
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  Yeah, you got to be cool.
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  Yeah.
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  You got to stay in the moment because you know what I'm saying?
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  Yeah.
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  And I was just in awe of the entire show.
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  He did a lot of purple.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  He did.
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  Because you know.
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  He did everything.
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  I think he did.
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  And when purple rang.
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  Oh.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Because you know purple is my favorite color too.
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  Absolutely.
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  So Prince and I, we related.
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  He just didn't know it.
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  He just didn't know.
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  He didn't know that.
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  He just didn't know.
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  He didn't know that.
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  I get it.
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  But that was a fantastic.
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  I mean, the musicology of the band.
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  Yeah.
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  And he's a dancer.
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  I mean, the energy he had.
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  Yeah.
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  Whew.
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  Yeah.
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  Hey, that's unfair to try to open for him or something.
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  Yeah, you can't do that.
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  Just let him go on.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  Don't come behind him.
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  Just don't go.
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  Don't come behind him.
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  But.
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  Just tell him, I'm going to sit out in the audience and watch you.
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  Yes, yes, yes.
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  Now, Keisha, I guess I'm going to put you on the spot.
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  Uh-oh.
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  I am so sorry.
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  Uh-oh.
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  But Jessica usually does an inspiring word.
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  OK.
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  Do you have an inspiring word?
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  I can.
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  OK, so I'm going to give you just a few more seconds.
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  And I'm going to get you our music for our.
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  OK.
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  Because it's time for a coffee break.
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  Oh, my.
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  So I can't wait.
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  All right.
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  Well, one of the things that I love for people to understand
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  is that everybody has a place.
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  Your place may be different from my place,
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  but it's just as important.
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  And one of the things I'm trying to work with my son
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  and now getting ready to be children,
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  my son is about to get married in a little while.
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  Uh-oh.
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  And yeah, it was so beautiful.
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  But what I wanted him to understand
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  is it doesn't matter where you are in this life.
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  You have to ensure that you are just being the best you you can be.
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  Absolutely.
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  And so as you as he embarks on this journey,
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  what I'd like to share with him and anyone else listening
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  is to value your place.
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  Absolutely.
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  Value where you are supposed to be in your life
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  at this particular time.
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  Because you have something to contribute, and it's powerful.
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  And if you are not there to contribute it, no one else can.
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  Absolutely not.
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  That's off the rip right there.
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  That was real.
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  That was in her soul.
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  She brought that up for real.
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  But I totally agree because too often we're all on the same bus,
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  but we're in different seats.
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  Different seats.
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  And sometimes we're in the wrong seat.
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  And sometimes we're trying to figure out
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  why we're not in the seat the other person is sitting in.
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  But we don't belong in that seat.
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  Because what we offer, nobody else can bring that.
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  Yeah, that's a good coffee break.
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  On the spot, look at you.
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  That's what I'm talking about.
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  Ain't nothing going to stop her.
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  All right, we have a fantastic show today.
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  What is today's show about?
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  So today's show, we are talking about literacy,
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  early childhood literacy.
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  And we're talking, it also goes into family engagement.
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  So we are doing that.
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  Can I go ahead and introduce?
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  Yes, who is our guest on the show today?
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  Wonderful, phenomenal guest today is Miss Christina Knellson.
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  Welcome to the show.
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  I know, right?
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  I was like, mm.
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  Me and Kiesha before the show, we like, what is this name?
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  Welcome to the show.
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  Can't mess it up, Knellson.
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  I'm so honored and blessed to be here.
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  Y'all are impressive.
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  I'm just like sitting here so inspired by that.
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  I know, right?
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  And that was right off the cuff.
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  I had forgot the show program until I'm in it.
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  I'm like, oh no, we're supposed to do a coffee break.
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  And she was like, OK.
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  I'm just trying not to embarrass my boss lady.
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  Right.
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  Look at her.
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  You're doing what?
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  Welcome to the show.
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  We are so excited to have you here.
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  Thank you.
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  And we just want to talk to you about some things.
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  Now, what is your title?
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  I am the executive director of the Madison County Public
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  Library.
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  OK.
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  Madison County.
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  You the lady.
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  That's right.
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  The lady.
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  We're so excited about the library and teaching.
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  There is a heavy emphasis.
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  And I'm not going to overstep my bounds, because that's
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  where Keisha is.
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  But there is a heavy emphasis on reading and getting in
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  with our children at an early age.
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  And Keisha, I remember, I don't know if we did it again,
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  but we used to have a book reading challenge competition.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, so reading is very important for our kiddos.
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  It is.
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  It is, because it helps to improve their vocabulary
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  and their bonding time.
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  So I know we'll talk about that today.
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  But literacy is so important.
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  Like my granddaughter, she's four.
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  And she gets a book every night.
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  OK.
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  And sometimes it's the same book.
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  Right.
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  You know.
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  But that's a book she likes.
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  And so what I have started doing is I'll turn the page
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  and see how much she can remember that's on that page,
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  because that starts her reading process.
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  And so we're just trying to say, yeah, she enjoys it.
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  She loves a good book.
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  Absolutely.
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  She loves a good book.
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  And that's a great time for you, too.
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  Because like you said, bonding, the bonding time.
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  Also, when kids see their parents and families reading,
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  and they see importance of taking the time
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  to sit down with them and read a book to them,
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  that sits with them.
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  And that really, I mean, not to be hyperbolic,
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  but that can change the course of their life.
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  Exactly.
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  Exactly.
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  Because I want her to understand the importance.
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  And we want that for all of our children in our programs.
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  The importance of education.
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  The importance of being able to communicate and have
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  conversation, because that also comes from literacy.
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  Absolutely.
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  So yeah.
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  Absolutely.
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  So I am so glad that you're here.
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  Now, what do you do as the ED of the Madison Public Library?
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  Well, it's not exactly traditional librarian stuff.
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  So it's sort of the business, the financial end, the vision.
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  That's what I love doing.
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  Yes, casting the vision.
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  Casting the vision and seeing it play out.
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  I don't get to do a lot of the stuff
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  that I got into this field to do.
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  But naturally.
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  Right, that's what happens.
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  Once you start moving it.
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  Right.
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  But it's great to have people on my bus that
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  are in the seat that they're supposed to be in
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  and just watch them thrive and bring people
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  in that are very connected to our mission and to what we do.
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  We have a very heavy literacy focus.
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  And you would think that that is a given with a library.
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  But technology is great.
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  But I think some people think it exists
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  at the expense of books or traditional reading
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  and things like that.
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  So we want to keep our focus on books and on reading
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  and on literacy.
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  So I get very excited when we get to do those things
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  and when I get to talk about those things.
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  But how long have you been in the library?
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  So I've been at Madison County since 2009.
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  So 15 years almost.
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  I worked in Lexington for a little bit
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  before that for about a year.
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  So I'm going on 16 and a half years, which sounds wild.
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  But yeah, it's been a long.
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  I got into it.
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  I actually taught computer classes at Lexington Public
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  when I first started.
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  And that was cool.
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  I mean, that was something I didn't know libraries did.
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  So it was educational for me.
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  And it was nice to get to help people learn something.
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  I'm very passionate about that.
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  And then I went to Madison County.
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  I'm from there.
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  So I'm connected to that community
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  and excited about that library.
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  We're a very young library system.
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  We've only been around since 87.
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  We were the largest county without a library.
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  So still kind of getting to mold the library.
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  It's a beautiful facility, though.
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  Thank you.
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  Thank you.
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  Yeah, we're very proud of it.
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  We have been there multiple times for training.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  I've been there for a after hours volunteer project.
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  And so just beautiful.
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  The rooms, they're spacious.
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  They have, of course, the screens that you can use.
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  Then we have the smaller rooms that are off to the side.
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  Yeah, those are really nice, too.
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  Yeah.
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  So yeah, beautiful facility.
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  Yeah, we have two rooms that can hold 200 people.
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  Yeah.
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  Wow.
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  And they get used constantly.
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  So in addition to providing literacy,
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  it also sounds like it's a venue.
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  It is, yeah.
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  I mean, is it one of the major venues in Madison County?
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  Yeah, so we expanded that building.
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  It opened in 2019, so August of 2019.
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  And it was almost a five-year project from start to finish,
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  and the start being, OK, we see a demand for more space.
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  Let's go out, talk to the stakeholders,
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  talk to the community, find out what they need.
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  Overwhelmingly, it was Madison County needs space,
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  just space to connect.
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  Something like you're saying, it could be a group of three
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  people.
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  It could be a group of 200 people.
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  But again, the overwhelming demand was,
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  we just need a place to go.
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  That's always been central to the library's mission
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  as well, that third place.
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  And that's becoming more and more important, too.
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  The more isolated society becomes,
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  we actually see people driven by the need
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  to connect with each other in person.
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  So that's been something that's great to witness as well.
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  I was not the director when we opened the new facility,
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  but just hearing the community and being
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  able to put that facility together and then watch it just
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  get used, every square inch of it to get used,
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  is pretty great.
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  I had, when you said the opportunity
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  to connect in person, I have a family member
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  who is working from home.
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  All her office is shut down.
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  And so she's at home.
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  And although she was fine in the office,
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  just being inside her office and having those other from time
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  to time connections with people at my home,
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  what's been the hardest for her when the office actually shut
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  down was the opportunity that's no longer there, which is,
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  now I don't see people.
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  Now I don't have that connection.
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  And so the library is a great place for that.
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  We actually had a program.
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  I think it was at the Berea Library.
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  And it was for people that worked from home.
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  So we just opened the community room up and said,
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  hey, from 10 to noon, if you're working from home, just come in.
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  You can bring your laptop.
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  You can do whatever.
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  We'll have coffee just to have a human connection.
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  And people loved it.
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  I think COVID changed a lot of things for a lot of people.
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  We don't want to talk about that C word anymore.
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  We're back.
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  We are here talking with Christina Cornelius and better known as Cece.
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  She should have told us that.
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  Not us.
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  Somebody else.
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  I know you could have told somebody else.
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  But we in now.
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  She says her friends call her that.
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  We friends.
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  That's right.
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  Oh, yes.
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  We're talking with Christina about the Madison County Library.
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  And, you know, I usually got a little gripe.
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  So I'm going to get my gripe out the way.
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  I'm Gary Date myself.
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  Do it, Cam. Do it.
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  Yeah.
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  I did not like going to the library because of the Dewey Decimal System.
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  I was like, there's got to be a better, easier way for me to get a book.
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  Now, I know.
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  I know it.
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  All the technology that you all have in it.
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  I know the Dewey Decimal System is dead.
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  Tell me.
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  It's still living.
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  Come on. It's still kicking.
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  Come on.
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  We use it for our nonfiction.
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  But I mean, people sit here and they're like, I don't like Dewey.
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  I don't like Dewey.
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  And it's basically because it's a number system that doesn't make sense to anyone.
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  Right. Right. Right.
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  Unless you have to study it.
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  Which y'all like me do.
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  Yeah.
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  Y'all have to study that.
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  But yeah, I mean, we try to put out signs that indicate what is where.
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  So there's a Dewey number 641.5.
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  OK, that's one of the most popular numbers.
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  And that's for a cookbook.
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  Actually, you threw a number out there.
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  I know.
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  I mean, that's a little strange.
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  So if you remember two things today, 641.5 is cookbooks.
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  364.15 is true crime.
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  Bruh.
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  That's the one I needed.
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  I may have gotten that wrong.
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  It's 364 something.
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  But yeah.
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  True crime is my place.
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  You could have continued on and we would have been like, OK.
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  Well, if somebody knows it better than me, I'll just go ahead and correct myself.
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  Well, you know, it's so funny because, you know, I'm sure now you just go in and type
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  in, I want whatever, and it'll pull up a bunch of stuff.
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  Yeah, library searches have gotten a lot better.
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  Like, I mean, I remember the card catalog back in the day.
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  I remember the card catalog.
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  I do love those.
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  They're beautiful pieces of furniture.
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  We don't use them anymore.
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  We use an online catalog.
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  So yeah, it uses natural language search.
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  It's a whole lot easier to find stuff.
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  Well, yeah, you know, the library, as you said, has changed since I was a kid.
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  I mean, because it was for me, it was, you know, it was very formal, you know,
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  learning all the different things.
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  And, you know, the Internet was not a reliable source when I was in school.
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  So same.
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  So we had to go to the library and get a reliable source.
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  But it's interesting to see how the library has evolved, not to just be that,
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  but to, you know, we started the show talking about all the different other things
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  that you provide besides reading.
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  Right.
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  Let's get into the reading.
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  Yeah.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah. You got a lot of programs that start even from your toddlers.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  So talk about some of those and the impact that you see with the families,
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  because that was really interesting reading to me.
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  Well, that's a particular passion of mine.
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  Early childhood intervention.
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  And it's something that I really didn't even know was a passion until I got into this
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  and saw the need for it.
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  Yeah. You know, kindergarten readiness is a big thing with us.
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  And Madison County struggles with that, you know, so making sure that we can supplement
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  like some of the things that you all do, some of the things that our own schools do,
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  and just give families the tools that they need to go home and read those books
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  with the kids and know how to, you know, not just read the books to their children,
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  but engage with them and start a foundation of learning and literacy.
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  So we start, I mean, at birth, pretty much.
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  We have a babies program where, you know, parents and caregivers can come in with their babies
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  and they sing and they play and they do all kinds of fun stuff.
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  We have a parachute.
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  Yeah, I was like, I want to go fucking do the parachute.
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  I was like, they raise it up and like, they raise it down and yeah, yeah.
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  That's what I'm talking about.
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  And that's so funny because my memory of the library is shh.
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  Right. Yeah.
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  Be quiet.
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  It's definitely changed quite a bit.
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  And, you know, there are some people that still want the quiet space
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  and we do have quiet study rooms for that.
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  But, you know, it's hard to tell a kid that's so excited that they're at the library
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  to not be excited.
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  It's what we want them to be.
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  We want them to have those connections and memories, the library like that.
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  So the library has really become almost like a community center and a playground.
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  Yeah.
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  A literal playground.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  We have a lot of toys actually.
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  That's something else that we're really into is that play with purpose.
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  We actually got a grant with play with purpose, which I guess is a national thing,
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  to have programs in the fall that support play with purpose.
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  So it teaches parents, I've said play with purpose like three times,
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  but that's what it is.
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  It teaches them how to play with purpose with their kids.
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  One of the things like my granddaughter did not get into like a summer camp this summer,
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  but the library has turned out to be a fantastic source for her.
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  And she loves to read.
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  She's transitioning from comic book reading into like novel reading.
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  Yeah.
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  She's kind of resistant.
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  But yes, the library has turned out to be a great source for her.
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  So what are some of the things you all are doing over the summer?
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  Gosh, we have a program all day long, every day during the week.
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  Wow.
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  We start at 10 in the morning with usually a story time or a baby time or a preschool play.
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  And then we have free lunch at our library as well.
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  Oh, that's nice.
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  That's another, it's a USDA grant.
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  So that's from 12 to 1.
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  And then on Tuesdays and Thursdays, we have special programs.
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  And the special programs are just big events that bring kids in.
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  Today, I think it was like a musical performance.
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  Yes, because I noticed that multiple programs that you run incorporate the music.
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  We do a lot of music.
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  Yeah.
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  Which is literacy enhanced.
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  It is.
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  Yeah.
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  And that helps with like rote.
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  Yeah.
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  Because a lot of kids, it's easier to pick up those words if they're singing it because
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  they're repeating it over and over.
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  Right.
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  So it's a great way for vocabulary to sink in.
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  And it's fun.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, kids love to sing and dance.
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  My aunt actually took her grandkids to the performance at the library today.
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  And she sent me a video of her littlest.
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  And she was just dancing.
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  And of course, it was following directions.
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  So stomp your feet, clap your hands.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  They love that.
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  Wave your hands, all that kind of thing.
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  Yeah, they love that.
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  And she was doing all of that.
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  And I'm like, hey, he has fallen directions really well.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, because I know sometimes that's the thing.
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  We get at home and I'm like, hey, you know, Nacari, can we go over here and pick up your
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  toys?
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  Oh, me, me.
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  I just don't think I can do that right now.
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  And I'm like, what the heck?
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  You were falling directions really well earlier.
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  We were just doing that.
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  Right.
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  So your programs for the summer, you all are wrapping up, right?
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  Yeah, we only have a couple more weeks of that.
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  Somehow it's flown by.
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  Yeah.
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  I know.
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  Been a busy summer.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Busy summer.
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  So one of the things that I'd like to ask you about with the Play With A Purpose, the
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  pack time with that.
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  So how did the parents do with that time?
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  We actually haven't started it yet.
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  Haven't started it yet.
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  But it sounds similar to our kindergarten readiness program that we've been doing.
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  And in that program, we gave the parents a manipulative.
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  So they came in, they learned how to play with that particular thing, and they could
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  take it home.
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  So I imagine that it will kind of go the same way.
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  Yeah.
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  And really, you know, all of these manipulatives are really nice in that they cover a lot of
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  different things.
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  OK.
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  A lot of different skills.
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  Our youth services staff, who is much more qualified than I am to figure out how these
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  programs should go, they went based on, I think, like a dozen kindergarten readiness
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  factors.
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  Gotcha.
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  And just want to make sure that every manipulative hit those things.
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  Yeah.
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  So again, this program is going to be brand new, but I imagine it will go the same way.
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  And when is that program supposed to start?
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  It starts in the fall.
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  OK, because we just want to make sure that folks hear that so that they can take advantage
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  of it.
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  And definitely go to our website, MadisonLibrary.org.
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  We have an online calendar that has all of these events already in there.
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  Yeah, because you all are very busy.
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  We are very busy.
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  It is so refreshing to see the changes.
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  And you know, I haven't been to the library in quite some time, but it sounds like I need
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  to go re-experience.
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  Definitely.
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  The library, because it's not what it used to be.
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  So not at all.
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  That's something I'm taking away from this show is that, you know, the library has morphed
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  into what the community needs.
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  Exactly.
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  You know, that's funny because, like I said, I've been doing this for a little while now.
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  And when I first started, we were kind of coming off of the internet is going to destroy
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  libraries.
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  We're not going to need libraries anymore because we have the internet.
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  Well, libraries began to offer internet.
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  And we do that as well.
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  We offer high speed internet in our county.
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  Not everybody in the county has access to that.
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  So libraries figured out how to make that work.
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  And then when I started in the field, it was Kindles are going to destroy libraries and
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  ebooks are going to destroy libraries.
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  Well, we figured out how to work with that.
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  You know, now we loan online, you know, books, video books and things like that.
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  And I have to tell you, I remember I was in the hairdresser and I was sitting next to
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  a friend and I had a book and she was like, why don't you get that on Kindle or e-reader?
• 28:28
  And I was like, I like to turn the pages.
• 28:31
  You know, I like the feel of the pages.
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  And she was like, uh huh.
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  Yeah.
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  But I still, even though I have one, I still find that I prefer to carry the book.
• 28:43
  And that's the funny thing is that we're always evolving or we're dying.
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  So, you know, it doesn't matter what new technology comes out, find a way to incorporate it and
• 28:56
  be able to use it for your advantage.
• 28:59
  And that sounds like, I mean, even with, do you all provide like tech programs at the
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  library?
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  Oh yeah.
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  We actually provide one-on-one technology help.
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  One of the reasons I went to Madison County was to develop, you know, technology programs
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  and computer help and things like that.
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  And it's just changed so much in 15 years.
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  It's changed so much in five years, two years.
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  So now the demand is less for a traditional classroom.
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  Let's learn how the internet works.
• 29:30
  Let's learn how email works and more help me with my phone or help me figure out my
• 29:37
  laptop.
• 29:38
  You know?
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  So we have a team of people that you can book an appointment with them and they will pretty
• 29:43
  much figure out anything that you put in front of them.
• 29:46
  That's crazy.
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  I will even say that some of the skills that I have developed as a production manager,
• 29:54
  I started in the library, you know, in design classes, you know, premier classes that were
• 30:03
  provided in the local library.
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  Now these are very expensive design programs that are available free.
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  People need to realize that the library is a resource.
• 30:16
  That's right.
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  You know, it's I mean, that's what it's there for.
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  You know, and I noticed throughout your multiple programs that it talks about that and building
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  the confidence of the children.
• 30:28
  Yes, that's extremely important.
• 30:30
  Yeah.
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  Because if you don't have that even on into adulthood, you know how that right.
• 30:36
  Right.
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  It's a major barrier.
• 30:38
  Absolutely.
• 30:39
  Well, C.C., we are so excited.
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  You see that?
• 30:42
  I saw it.
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  We are so excited that you came to visit with us.
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  Check out what some contact information for the library.
• 30:52
  Our website is the best place and that is Madison library dot org.
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  Orgy.
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  You can find our events calendar on there.
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  You can see what books are coming out again.
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  Still try to have that connection to books.
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  So please come check us out.
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  Unintended.
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  I love it.
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  Love it.
• 31:10
  Keisha.
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  Yes, sir.
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  It's been real.
• 31:14
  Been real.
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  Been real.
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  I thank you for the opportunity.
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  You have been listening to look who's talking.
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  I cut my mic off too soon.