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My name is Abby Ryan.

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I'm a Youth Services Librarian at Madison Public Library Central Library.

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I am so lucky that a

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typical day for me

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has such a variety of things in it.

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There's always a little bit of

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customer service

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working at our public reference desks.

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Much of Abby’s work as a librarian happens behind the scenes.

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there's also a lot of

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planning behind the scenes.

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We had four gigantic

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groups of school kids

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visit our library within the last month.

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There's a lot of

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behind the scenes planning for

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future things that happen.

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What are we going to do?

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What stories are we going to read?

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How are we going to

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rotate a hundred kids

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through our space safely?

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What’s one thing you want your community to know?

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I would love our

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community to know that

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the library is there for them.

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It's there for everybody.

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You never know

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what you're going to find

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until you come and check it out.

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Come on in and see what we have.

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If you're not using it,

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you're missing out.

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People are always going

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to be looking for

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opportunities to learn

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and libraries provide that.

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And I think libraries

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are going to continue to

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be those places of

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human to human connection.

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And I'm excited.

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We don't always have the answers,

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but we're always...

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we've always got ideas of where to look.