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Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

Whereas, I do think we have a social commitment to the back list that isn't circulating,...

Whereas, I do think we have a social commitment to the back list that isn't circulating, right? Yeah, yep

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Whereas, I do think
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we have a social commitment to the back list
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that isn't circulating, right? Yeah, yep.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
13
Timestamp in Movie
02:52:55
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Zipporah Films,JustFilms / Ford Foundation,PBS

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A look within the walls of the New York Public Library.
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...
And the personal chaplain of Selina Hastings, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
And the personal chaplain of Selina Hastings,
Wheatley's Whitefield elegy brought her into national fame, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
Wheatley's Whitefield elegy brought her into national...
And her reputation was reinforced - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:17
And her reputation was reinforced
So what we have here on display - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
So what we have here on display