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Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

If we're not participating, people are not going to pay attention to us

If we're not participating, people are not going to pay attention to us

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If we're not participating,
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people are not going to pay attention to us.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
17
Timestamp in Movie
02:26:00
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're out there trying to improve the lives - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
We're out there trying to improve the lives
How could we not try to build deeper relationships, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
How could we not try to build deeper relationships,
This is a relationship that we have with our community, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
This is a relationship that we have with our community,
To me, the biggest practical thing - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:16
To me, the biggest practical thing
Summer reading is community engagement and advocacy. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
Summer reading is community engagement and advocacy.
Any program you do is community engagement and advocacy. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
Any program you do is community engagement and advocacy.
Every time you go to a community board, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:14
Every time you go to a community board,
So what we're hoping is that - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
So what we're hoping is that
Some of us are always in our offices, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:17
Some of us are always in our offices,
But the more that we understand the budget cycle, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:12
But the more that we understand the budget cycle,
We did it, we got all this money, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
We did it, we got all this money,
"The budget wasn't baselined," - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
"The budget wasn't baselined,"
We always have to go back to the drawing board - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
We always have to go back to the drawing board
All those other agencies want to learn from us, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
All those other agencies want to learn from us,
We're working with our sister systems - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
We're working with our sister systems
Susan, there was a little pop - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
Susan, there was a little pop
I think I can get it, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
I think I can get it,
"Presently he came back with the telephone directory, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
"Presently he came back with the telephone directory,
"And while he was gazing at her long drooping lashes, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
"And while he was gazing at her long drooping lashes,
"Then she quietly closed the well-thumbed blue volume. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
"Then she quietly closed the well-thumbed blue volume.