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Getting to Know the Carnegie Library Board (A Film by Dean Bog) - YouTube
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(gentle music)
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- Before we hear from a
few of our board members,
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I think it's worth explaining
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what the Carnegie Library
Board is actually comprised of.
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There are a total of 38 board members,
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and no, they're not professional
athletes, except for Will.
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They're regular folks
just like me and you.
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Of the 38 members, 8 are life trustees,
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meaning they serve on the
board for their entire life.
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Twenty are term trustees,
meaning they serve on the board
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for a couple of years.
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And there are 10 public trustees.
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These are public officials
like city council members
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or the president of the school board.
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And the goal of the board in essence
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is to help the library
best serve the public.
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Okay, let's hear from
some of our board members.
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- To me, a library is like
a limitless opportunity
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to get a better understanding
of just life in general.
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I just remember as a child,
I really enjoyed reading.
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I would go and just
browse through the books
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and get a chance to take out books.
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And it was also kind of
like a little escape,
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because you get to use your imagination
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and you get to think
about and select books
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that are different from the
world that you may be in.
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- So one time there was a contest
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when I was in elementary school.
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And it was a bookmark contest.
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You had to decorate a bookmark,
and I won first place.
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And that bookmark I have today.
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The Carnegie Library sent the winners
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this little letter that
told us we were invited
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to attend the Imaginarium.
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And it was a really big deal for me.
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It was something that I
got to do independently
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while my mom was in the waiting room.
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And it just, it introduced me to all
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the wonderful things that
the library has to offer
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and the opportunities
that can come with it.
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- Serving is using the
tools and the resources,
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the skills, your emotion, your abilities,
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your thought process, your intellect
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to help other people,
to serve other people,
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with those gifts and those tools.
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The library, I believe,
is a communal place.
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It's a great place for
community and people to come in
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and learn, to grow with each other.
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Anybody can come here.
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It's a place for everyone,
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whether you're an immigrant
or whether you're just
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a person living down the
street, it doesn't matter.
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This place is a service place,
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is a service oriented system.
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I believe it's equitable,
and I believe it's inclusive.
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- The library has really
tried to figure out
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how it can build a set of services
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that people can access remotely.
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Listen, I have some issues
and I'd like to work
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with somebody on my resume,
or I've lost my job,
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I'd like to apply for
unemployment insurance,
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I'm looking for this novel,
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I want to listen to this symphony.
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All of those things can happen online.
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You can get access to that.
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I was trying to find those
one minute book reviews
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that you were telling me about.
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I couldn't find them and I hit
the chat function and said,
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hey where are they?
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And within a few seconds
somebody pointed them out to me
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and there I was downloading reviews
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and listening to the ones I wanted to.
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- Joining up with the
Greater Pittsburgh Community
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Food Bank to distribute food to kids
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who aren't getting meals at school.
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And we all know, if you're
hungry you're not gonna learn.
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So the idea to get kids
to be able to come,
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have a meal, have an
after school snack, right?
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And then with that
still give them a chance
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to have a safe place to be, to learn,
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is just really such a powerful thing.
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- A library, I know
that in the 21st century
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library roles have changed.
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The fact that you can
come here and take classes
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and further your education or your career,
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the fact that you can come
here to access the internet,
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that you can come here
for no other purpose
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than to just be.
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- I happen to enjoy
biographies and books that have
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some historical context to them.
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So I recently read an
autobiography of Chuck Noll,
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the former Steelers football coach.
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And I thought coming
into it that it would be
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a relatively simplistic read.
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It was a gift from a friend.
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And it turned out to be highly nuanced
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and he was an incredibly
interesting and complex person.
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And a lot of that was
driven by the time period
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in which he grew up and the
ethnic origins of his family.
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And then how he translated
that into leadership
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of a team that he really turned around
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and turned into a dynasty.
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