Mychal Threets
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We're going to teach you.
We're going to encourage you.
We're going to take it experience by experience.
But I personally, especially being a children's librarian, you just hear this cheerfulness.
You hear them just looking for new books, learning what's at the library.
Like it's always just this excited noise.
So I think it's just for a library to be like, you know,
it's not a library if it's not quiet.
If I can't hear everything, that's not a library.
That's the way we grew up.
That's the way I grew up.
But we're doing something different now.
We have noisy library days, but we also have pockets of the library.
A lot of libraries have meeting rooms.
There's a time that library people know if you come during this block of time, it tends to be a bit quieter.
And we're just trying to work with everybody.
But in working with everybody, it's not that
The quietness of the library takes precedence.
It's that the belonging of the library always takes precedence.