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To me, the biggest practical thing
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Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

To me, the biggest practical thing to help us about understanding community engagement and...

To me, the biggest practical thing to help us about understanding community engagement and really helping you guys understand is to do away with that feeling of, like, "Oh my gosh, another thing

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To me, the biggest practical thing
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to help us about understanding community engagement
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and really helping you guys understand
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is to do away with that feeling of, like,
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"Oh my gosh, another thing.
Duration
16 seconds
Views
16
Timestamp in Movie
02:26:31
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.
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.
"'Take off your coat, ' murmured Albinus. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
"'Take off your coat, ' murmured Albinus.
"Without bothering to stand up, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
"Without bothering to stand up,
"As Albinus helped her, he caught a hot whiff of violets - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:14
"As Albinus helped her, he caught a hot whiff of...
"Then she took off her hat, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:12
"Then she took off her hat,