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And, you know, the great dilemma
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Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

And, you know, the great dilemma given constrained or not infinite resources, which,...

And, you know, the great dilemma given constrained or not infinite resources, which, sadly, is our fate, is you could spend every dollar on the best sellers, and they would fly out the door, but then we would have no money for the things that

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And, you know, the great dilemma
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given constrained or not infinite resources,
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which, sadly, is our fate,
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is you could spend every dollar on the best sellers,
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and they would fly out the door,
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but then we would have no money for the things that...
Duration
23 seconds
Views
23
Timestamp in Movie
02:52:07
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Zipporah Films,JustFilms / Ford Foundation,PBS

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Movie Summary

A look within the walls of the New York Public Library.
We recommend, or that, you know, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
We recommend, or that, you know,
And, in fact, on the best sellers, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
And, in fact, on the best sellers,
Yeah, yeah. It's not totally socially - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
Yeah, yeah. It's not totally socially
Whereas, I do think - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:12
Whereas, I do think
Tomorrow morning before we open, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
Tomorrow morning before we open,
Guys, all, you also have a chair, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
Guys, all, you also have a chair,
Let's do that whole table down there, everybody. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
Let's do that whole table down there, everybody.
Whose white jackets were these? - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
Whose white jackets were these?
So please make sure you're taking yours, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
So please make sure you're taking yours,
This is here, that's the other one, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
This is here, that's the other one,
Double check if everybody has a sponsor card - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
Double check if everybody has a sponsor card
Do this table, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
Do this table,
And Anthony Appiah has volunteered - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:12
And Anthony Appiah has volunteered
Phillis Wheatley became - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
Phillis Wheatley became
But she was born in West Africa - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:14
But she was born in West Africa
She arrived in Boston on the 11th of July 1761 - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:14
She arrived in Boston on the 11th of July 1761
When the Wheatleys died, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
When the Wheatleys died,
Peters was imprisoned for debt - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:12
Peters was imprisoned for debt
So her poems are her only legacy. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
So her poems are her only legacy.
Schomburg has Arthur Schomburg's own copy of an elegiac poem - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:12
Schomburg has Arthur Schomburg's own copy of an elegiac...