Jacob Shymanski

Because as a librarian, you're just surrounded.

It's kind of like how a janitor might not want to keep their house clean or a chef might not want to cook when they get home.

I want to go back to this 17.5 million checkouts number.

I'm still blown away because I know for a fact not every person in Calgary is going to the library.

That means you must have patrons who come in every week or so and they're just devouring your collection.

Is that the case?

Do you have power users?

children's books are part of the whole publishing ecosystem because uh they're still a big money maker for publishing in general because exactly that the the print copy of it is still very valuable you couldn't even imagine raising a kid nowadays without some sort of book to keep them entertained it's not just ipads that can do it genevieve thank you so much for your time this is fantastic

Likewise.

That was Genevieve Luthi, the Director of Collections at the Calgary Public Library.

That's all the time for this edition of Audiobook Cafe.

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