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Alexis Coe

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  1. “It's how I've used it. And that's the thing, it sort of reinvigorates us in a different way. We spend so much time on our phones. And then I think about the different uses that a community has for a library. Children go to storytime. Otherwise, in Park Slope, you know, story time is like $20. That's a lot of money. They offer help with resumes. It's a community service. And so I think libraries on every level are fundamental to our society.”

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  2. “Can, but when you interact with it, it's just completely different. And you can't handle certain things that are quite old, but it means something for people to see it and to interact with it. It's really important. And it's also where researchers communicate with experts, curators, archivists, librarians. And without that fundamental relationship, so many misunderstandings will come from the text. And people won't see everything that they're supposed to see. It isolates everyone in a way that will be really unhelpful to scholarship. And then libraries themselves are essential to communities. People use them when they can't afford books. We still want people to read books because the experience is different. The learning experience is different. You can browse stacks the way you just can't digitally. It's not the same. I haven't done that.”

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  3. “Well, first of all, there are two kinds of libraries, there are research libraries which house our collective memory. So, you know, we have letters from George Washington, for example. We have to preserve those things.”

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  4. “It means that it was the best. I spent basically two years working on exhibitions. One year almost completely alone, just going into the special collections, you know, behind the locked doors and looking at everything in a day from cuneiforms to E.E. Cummings' notes to his wife, to Virginia Wolf's walking stick. It was incredible. And through that, I started to think about how we tell our stories, how we communicate history. And I got a front row seat to my viewer, which you never get as a historian when you're just writing something. I would see people walk through the exhibition halls in Bryant Park and notice what they lingered on, what didn't capture their attention at all, and it really influenced the way I would compose the text that was on the wall and the exhibition catalogs. And eventually I just sort of...”

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  5. “I'm a political historian. It was what I emphasized in graduate school, and then I left and I worked at the New York Public Library. And I started to think about different ways. What did you do there? I was a research curator in the exhibitions department.”

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