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It's More than Just Books... | The Reschool'd Podcast
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Aug 10, 2023
(College 101 Series: Chapter 15) Did you know the library has more than just books in it? I know, it shocked AJ too. The library can be a great resource for students for many different reasons. But, for many of us, including AJ, it’s not very well known. Join us as we discuss all the various benefits you get by simply walking into the library. We also give you some uncommon tips for the library. Episode link: https://play.headliner.app/episode/15943681?utm_source=youtube
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Welcome to the Reschooled Podcast, the show that discusses all the things that schools
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may have missed with your hosts, AJ Couty and Jason Gordon. Hey everybody, welcome back to the show
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We are the Reschooled Podcast, the show that discusses all the things that schools may not have prepared you for
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As always, I'm AJ sitting across me, Jason. Jason, how are you doing today? I'm doing pretty well, AJ
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So you're not killing it like you normally are. No, not killing it. Last week, I got COVID
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Oh, so you joined the club, huh? Yeah, finally. I stayed away two and a half years
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You know, as they say, avoided it like the plague. I guess it's kind of literally the modern day plague
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But anyway, yep. And luckily, two shots, a booster. It felt like a cold
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That's it. That's what mine was. Mine was just some, it felt like bad allergy season is all it was
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Yeah. So thank goodness. If you're out there listening to this and you're an anti-vaxxer, you're wrong
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Right. You're, you're very wrong. You should, you should get this shot. So it does the shots
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So it does not hurt you when you get this virus. Yeah. Everybody in my family has it
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Yeah. I mean, well, I mean, I've always gotten the, I got the flu when I was a kid and I didn't
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get a flu shot. I'm not even sure they had it. the vaccine. So one of the
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and we're going really off topic right now, but I find it interesting. So you said you got all the boost
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you got the shots and the boosters. Did any of the shots or boosters affect you? Like, did you have the side effects
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I was a little bit tired the, the day I got the second shot
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Cause apparently your body's kind of getting used to attacking those types of cells
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So it builds up the antibodies, you know? So I was tired
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but no, um, I've heard of people, you know, getting bad headaches and just being knocked out for a day and stuff
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None of that. What about you? My wife got, so my wife got knocked out for two days
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So she got, I think I can't, well actually she may have gotten knocked out. Yeah
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Two days. One, one day wasn't bad, but the, the second shot and then the booster shot just wiped her out for a day
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maybe the day and a half. I had no side effects whatsoever
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Like I was in the gym the day after I got my, my, uh, my shots
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Well, the day after I remember going for a run. Yeah. It didn't affect me
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I actually started wondering, did they give me a placebo? This guy's going to be our test subject
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Yeah, he's just going to be our test subject, see if this works. Well, let's get back on the tracks
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Today, we're going to be talking about, at least for me, a very interesting subject, and that is the library
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Oh, you're a big library fan there, AJ? No, not even a little
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Yeah, I kind of knew that about you. Yeah. At least when I was in school, it was definitely not. So are you ready for that
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You know, I wasn't a library fan until later on, but then I became a pretty big fan
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Before we jump into this, though, I got to remind everybody, you got to hit us up on the website, reschool.com
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How good looking we are on the podcast. Exactly. We're as good looking as you think we are
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So, you know, just reach out. We are not afraid to brag about ourselves
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Yeah, that is very true. All right. Well, let's start with this quick question
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I'm scared to death of it. Grade yourself on your use of the library back in your college days
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Early college, 10. I was amazing. A plus, I don't know, five
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What about you? I was an F minus on all throughout. At least you were consistent, right? Yes
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Consistency is everything. Let's see. my undergrad, I wasn't even, I went to the library a couple of times, um, but it wasn't
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for the use of the library. Um, and then in, in my master's program, I couldn't even tell
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you where the library was. Um, yeah, I just, I don't know why maybe in, in, yeah, I'm not
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even going to make any excuse. I don't know why I just, I didn't use the library. Well, no, it was when I got to college, you know, I needed something separate. I was living
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in a block dorm room that was noisy. You could hear people, you know, all down the hallways and stuff
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I'm like, I can't study in my room. Plus I had a roommate, right? And, you know, he's kind of a layabout
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He stayed in the room a lot. So I was like, I got to get out of here
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I found my nook in the library and that was my second home. And I was there easily at least five, maybe six or seven days a week
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and I spread it throughout the day. So I was usually in the library two or three times
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So on average, I was in the library three to four hours a day my entire freshman year
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So you spent more time in the library in a week than I did my entire college career
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Sounds like it. Jesus. Oh, God. But you had somewhere else to study, right
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You had another place. Yeah, I did. So I lived with my parents when I was an undergrad. And then when I went to my master's program, I was married
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So I lived with my wife and so, I mean, it was just, it was a different situation
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And yeah, I just, library was never big to me. Of course, books were never big to me
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So I relied a lot on the internet. God knows if, you know, those research papers you had to do back in undergrad, you know
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Wikipedia was the best thing ever. Well, see, you know, the electronic resources in the library and we're going to, we got
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to talk about all the things the library. Oh, yeah, yeah, we are. I just loved it as a space
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It felt serious. It allowed me to concentrate when otherwise. Turns out I'm a better studier, though
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Well, let me say this. I'm a good studier in the library. I'm better at getting things done when I have a little bit of background noise
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And the library offers both of those. Yeah, it's not overbearing. Yeah, like the entranceway is kind of things are happening, things like that
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You can put in your earbuds, get a little. And so you get that kind of coffee shop feel, you know, like people are doing things
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But they have the quiet spaces, you know, where you can hear pin drop
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And when you just have to really, you know, get down and memorize something, having that, that zero, you know, noise, zero people coming by, zero just interruption
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Yeah. I mean, so anyway, I was a big fan of the library. Were you the snooty one that sat in the corner and when somebody sneezed, you gave them the dirty look like, shut up
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No, man, I was in a hole in the back. I found my cubby and I didn't have to worry about that
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But I think like most people, the silent reading room portion, there's not a lot of people in there
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And anybody who actually goes in there wants to be in there. So I might have been the louder one because I was really bad about carrying food with me Oh you were the ones eating the chips Yeah you not supposed to do that but I be back there trying to like crunch an apple and not make it loud Like you know like God how can I Sounds like I in the Grand
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Canyon is echoing. And I mean, you know, when I'm biting into a crispy apple. So anyway
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that was giving you the dirty looks. Yeah. That particularly that first year, you know
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I was just, I lived in the library. It was my spot. All right. Well, let's get to the
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main topics and i think the biggest question here is just why would somebody use the library and i
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think you you talk i want to throw that one back at you first why would you not use the library
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i mean what was wrong with it why why did why didn't why didn't it stick for you so i think
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there's a there's a couple variables in there that made me choose not to go to the library over
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somebody who like you who used it like you said a lot in your freshman year one is that it was just
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I lived about 20 minutes, 25 minutes away from campus. So for me to go to the library
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it was a 25 minute drive there and a 25 minute drive back. And so I just, from a lazy stance
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a lazy place, I just was thought, it's just, I can, I can get what I need off the internet
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and not have to really resort to the library and go there. And I had a quiet house, so I didn't
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have to worry about studying in a quiet place. So I don't think it was really just as necessary for me
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from the common stuff that you would get. And I think we're actually going to talk about a little bit later on
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maybe some uncommon tips about the library. From the majority of the time, I just didn't need it
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It wasn't something that I felt like I needed, and so I didn't use the library that much
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Like I said, I'm not a reader. Most of the stuff that I've read, and I read in quotes, is audiobooks
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So the library is not going to help you there. You think that
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Yeah, now they are. Yeah, now they are. They actually have apps now. Yeah
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The library's got so much more, right? We are talking a couple years ago
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Yeah. But, you know, even back then, there were some audio stuff you could listen to, you know, CDs and stuff
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And they had these audio rooms that you could go check out
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And so that was early days, I know. But it was a great experience because like you could black it out
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So it was very dark in there, too. All right. And throw back on the audio book. It really got you into it
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I mean, did you ever use the microfichers? I had to for classes
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Really? Yes. I thought that was the coolest thing ever. Did you? Yeah, I thought because, you know, it was like, you know, we didn't have the Internet
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We didn't have the ability to like we had the Internet, but it wasn't that big at the time. So we can you can put this stuff on microfichers
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They haven't been digitized yet. Yeah. And I thought this is really cool to save space so you can see things
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Well, you know, nobody listening to what you're saying right now knows what a microfiche is, right? Not even a clue
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Why don't you tell them? Tell them what a microfiche is. So it's pretty much they take documents of some sort and they shrink it down to like this, what would you say, like a one inch by one inch
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Yeah, I think it's the old 35 millimeter like cut down. Yeah, and it's a transparency and you put it under this mega microscope that has a TV screen and that's how you check the document so it saves the space
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So it's not on a full page. It's on a very small, you know, I don't know what you call that, but like film
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Who needs hard drives? Who needs zip files, right? We had it figured out back then
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Oh, yeah. You just put it on little film and just project it on a monitor when you have to read it
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And you move it less than a millimeter and it comes off the page. Yeah
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You can never find what you need because the smallest movement was magnified by 100
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And they were these big, clunky machines that like Apple designed them in 1980
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Right. You know, I mean, and it was a combination. It was like the early supercomputers meets a microscope
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Right. And then like 1960s box TV. And so like that was the combination
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And you use this little crank dial on the side to spin it through. So, yeah, I had to use that some, you know, who still has to use it
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Who? any small town lawyers. Really? Because all court and case records are still in there in hard copy format
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And to reduce space, it's not like most of these townships have digitized the records and stuff
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They just put in a microfiche. They haven't learned about the Internet yet. Yeah
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So that's still a thing. Like if you want to become a paralegal or you practice certain types of law, like, you know, title search and some other, you know, areas where you have to actually go and research, you know, land records or claims or something like that
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Yeah, there it is. Microfish still there. You got to get proficient, that little Atari joystick thing
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Yeah. So that, no, I didn't use that a whole lot. You know, well, what are we talking about here
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We got to tell them what the library's got to offer, right? Yeah, exactly. So you obviously didn't find too many things of value in there
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No, not much. The things I found of value, I've already said, right
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There's almost always a reading space, okay? Even in the most, like, you know, rudimentary libraries, you still got the quiet areas
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You got books, okay? Well, that's fascinating. You know, lots of books
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Lots of stuff in books is not on the internet now. You really want to dig into things
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You really, to some extent, have to still get into the books. The good news is, though, is you don't have to use the Dewey Decimal System anymore
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They actually digitized where it's at now. That is true. That is true
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And everybody listening now doesn't know what the Dewey Decimal System is. I can't believe I remember what that is
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Yeah. A combination of letters and numbers. Yeah, and you had this card catalog that if you wanted to find this book
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you had to search through this thing, and it said, okay, you've got to go here and here and here, and it's on this shelf
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It's as if you were going to go through your phone, and you're trying to find something at Lowe's, and it's on aisle this and section this and bay this
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I've got a pro tip for you on your phone with apps
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My wife introduced me to this. Any application that you use regularly
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you don't remember what it looks like, believe it or not. But you do remember the color
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Fair enough. If you organize your apps by color, just put them into folders by color
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It will make your life easier. My nine-year-old daughter does that. There you go
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And I'm like, what are you doing? And that makes so much sense, though
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Well, kids are geniuses. They can learn anything. But something about it, you know, like I was always fascinated by that marketing thing
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you can just throw out a jingle and it will, we'll remember that jingle for the rest of our lives. Right. Yeah
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But you give some factual information, you know, this happened in 1776 when Washington was crossing the Delaware and you're
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like, yeah, no, that, that, that'll last about eight, eight minutes. And it's gone. Yeah. You know, when's the test again
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Cause after the test it's gone. Yeah. Right. Um, so anyway, there's a, there's a pro tip there, but yeah
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So I love that about the library. They had the listening rooms back then that were super silent
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Even now you can do the same thing. They still have those listening rooms, which are awesome
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If you ever used a super silent room with you know low light low disturbance it will help you in terms of like letting things sink in
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So I like that portion, access to the books. All that was cool. Now, libraries are especially public libraries are amazing
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Have you been into the public library in anywhere around anywhere, anywhere close near around Atlanta lately
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uh i went to my library a few years ago and the only reason i went there is because we had a
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homeowner association meeting there so i don't even know what are the inside we i went you walk
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the door to the left is the meeting room to the right is the actual library i've never actually
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walked into that library uh so i'm still consistent today so let me tell you what you will find in
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most of these libraries now, one, they have computers with internet. That does help a lot of students
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Oh my God. Students, anybody in the public, right? I mean, internet access
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Now you have to jump through some hoops. Some of them have cheap ways to print
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So that's good, right? So you need that function. Fax, scan, all that kind of stuff
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You don't just have to go to the, you know, the post office is far more expensive than
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doing those things at the library, believe it or not. I got you. Cause you just pulled out a fax and some of these people don't know what faxes are
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Oh, yeah. God, we're dating ourselves. But they don't realize there are still some things that are going to require, you know, like insurance industry and stuff like that
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They do not let those people, many of them, many agencies have rules against you cannot send people emails
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As a matter of fact, you're not as big a tax guy in accounting as others
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But the IRS still does not have authority to send you an email
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Yep. because they don't want the agent's emails getting out there, right
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So emails are only for internal use. I remember a colleague of ours saying that if you really needed to memorialize something as an email
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you could type out an email and then print that email so it is in email format and then go fax it
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Jeez, that's a lot of work. Now, I will tell you this, you know, the whole fax machine and stuff like that, that is not as necessary anymore because now they have online faxing, right
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You scan something in. Yeah, I've used that before, yeah. Boom, it just makes it easier, right, to send and receive fax
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So anyway, there's that, you know, you've got those functions at the library
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But here's the cool stuff. People were trying to be creative. tons of software programs, green screen rooms
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You can check out some high quality DSLR cameras to do videos
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to do, you know, headshots, background photography, short, you know, films and clips and stuff
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Now I know that's becoming a little less relevant, the quality of the equipment
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because the quality of what you can do on your smartphone now, right
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You take iPhone with Filmic Pro, you know, and all the settings on that, you can record a feature film if you know what you're doing
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The big thing is lighting. They have cool lighting in there, you know
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So I do a lot of videos, you know, that lighting is everything
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You can have a very average camera and good lighting and it'll come out a lot better than a good camera with bad lighting
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So anyway, stuff like that. They tend to have things like 3D printers
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some of them even i don't know why they have full maker spaces they have like sewing
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machines and they have things like that in some of the libraries and it makes sense right they're
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all a utility right especially when it requires some kind of like software to run it right but
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like cool programs that would cost you like crazy cad for example right if you know what cad is
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computer automated design. Anything you're going to do to design something has to have
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well, vector style images that have three or, you know, dimensional ability. Some of
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some programs like Revit, right, which is like CAD, but with rendering ability where you can
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render pictures that look like they're real, right, from a three-dimensional CAD file. So
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if you're going to design products, like you want, you're an aspiring industrial engineer, You're going to create animation, things like that
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All of these programs libraries have access to. I bet most college campuses out there have access to programs that if you bought them individually will cost you thousands
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Yeah, absolutely. Catalones are grand, right? I mean, Revit's more than that type scenario
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So I love that aspect about it. Now, I'm not skilled in most of these programs and stuff
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But the fact that they have it, that is there for you. Right
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It's accessible to all. Yeah. And, you know, so the whole idea is, you know, olden days, you know, we learn everything from books, blah, blah, blah
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There's all the books. So you got all the resources you need to learn. But now people are doing or there's this bent now, this this change
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And I kind of like it in society that people are going to functionality and utility as being the learning drive, not the history, not the theory behind it
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There's always going to be your group that needs to understand the theory and the history, but they're focusing on the technical aspects first about how you do things
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I really love that. I think it's an amazing way to approach things
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You know, learn the practical before you start learning the theoretical behind it
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Right. And libraries are just they've they've met that need. If you know, I mean, who else if you're somebody who doesn't have resources and you really want to be able to design products or you really want to animate things or you really want to work with music
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Right. And you can't afford some of these really high priced. You know, I've got on this computer I'm talking to you on probably two thousand dollars worth of software
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because I have music and video editing stuff and things like that on here
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The library has that, and you can go and learn to do that. And believe it or not, there is not a line
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Yeah, no, there's not. I mean, go in there and learn how to use this stuff
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It's amazing. I go back to that. You remember, did you ever watch the movie Good Will Hunting
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Yeah, of course. Yeah, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck. But I love it that that that episode where Matt Damon's, you know, mouthing off to the guy, the arrogant guy
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They're both trying to impress the girl. And, you know, the guy's from Harvard and he's he's talking down to Matt Damon
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Matt Damon is a genius type thing. But, you know, afterwards, when he walks away, he sees the guy like in a fast food place or whatever
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And he walks up to the window is like, you know, well, actually, that's a different scene
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But I guess the one I'm thinking about is where he says, you know, you're going to realize one day that you could have learned everything that you learned with a library card and $14 in late fees
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You know, and I was like, that's a great line. You know if you have the motivation and the ability the resources really are there There what you can learn is limitless on almost no budget But you get back to the you know we did an episode on the value of college right And that the the assembling
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things for you, making, setting up the pins for you to knock them down type thing, because
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it takes a very bright, industrious person to understand first what they need to know
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Right. And then to have the motivation to actually do it on your own. Right. Um, Yeah
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You know, I look at the library now. I mean, obviously maybe this is because of, you know, us coming from business
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I look at library as just like any business, especially like a school library, is they're having to compete
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They're having to compete to get the attention of the students in the school libraries because the Internet
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I mean, just like e-commerce, brick and mortar stores are having to figure out how to get customers in their store to compete with the ones that they can do online in their pajamas in their bed
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libraries are having to do the same thing especially school libraries they they're they're
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having to become more innovative and creative in ways to get the students into their doors because
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they have to i mean that's part of it that's part of the reason why they're there that they're there
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is to give them that that resource and if nobody's using it then they're not going to get the funding that they need so they have to come up with creative ways and i think some of these these
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libraries like you said some of these things that they put in libraries are are fascinating because you can, not only can you get a degree in business or get a degree in, you know
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whatever you're going for, you can also get the skills if you're dedicated and determined enough
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you can get skills to do side gigs. Like you were talking about with 3D printing and learning CAD
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programs and stuff like that. You can get those skills while you're going through school for free
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You're not having to pay for them. You're not having to do anything. They are there for you
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And you have not only is it you don't have to use just YouTube videos to figure this out
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You can actually get your hands on these these expensive programs. Yeah. Like, for example, most universities out there now use LinkedIn Learning
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It used to be a combination of LinkedIn Learning and Lynda.com. Those were the two market leaders
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But LinkedIn bought Lynda.com. And now it is the single biggest repository of instructional videos on just about anything you want to learn
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And they're done so well and they're done professionally, right? By individuals who really know what they're doing
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Thousands, thousands, thousands, thousands of videos, maybe even millions on so many different topics
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But things, if you want to learn some area of technical skills, there is something on there for you
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Almost every college buys that for, you know, access for free to all its students
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I've used LinkedIn Learn for CAD programming. Have you? The whole vector issue, because I didn't know anything about vectors
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and being able to split them up into their pieces and save them into a vector file and stuff like that
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because I have a CNC machine because I do woodworking. And you see, you have to have that
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And, man, that's what I relied on, LinkedIn Learn. There's no way I could have got through it
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I used it recently to learn some of the more technical aspects about blockchain
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Yeah. Right? I mean, they had a computer scientist and a lot of stuff, you know, I've kind of skipped over
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It's a little too technical for me. Yeah. Type scenario. But yeah, I mean, just something like that that's outside of my knowledge base
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Otherwise, I don't know where to start looking. Right. Because a lot of things are just explained on a very cursory level to start with
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That type of thing. Right. Just incredible resource. So, yeah, I love the library
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I loved the library when it was basically nothing but a quiet space with a bunch of books and resources and, you know, stuff like that
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Just the ambiance of it made it a useful place for me
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And, you know, we did a different video talking about the resources or the reasons why you would live on campus versus off of campus, you know
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And two of my big things were the dining hall, right? Having to cook your own meals and how convenient that is and being close to it
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And the library. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. And the gym. Usually there's a free gym membership that comes along with it when, you know, and in college, I didn't need a whole lot more
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My life was pretty simple. Go to class, learn things, gym, library, food hall
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That was it. Right. I think there's an MTV show that dealt with something like that, gym and some other stuff
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Let's get into the uncommon tips. So these are things when we put this on the show, doc
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This is kind of things that you may not know about the library
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Or maybe you do, but maybe it's just not as advertised as much
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So do you have one? Well, yeah. Most people probably don't realize anymore that the library has books in it
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I know. Who would have thought that one? Books are still very useful because they are not all on the Internet yet
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So uncommon. Yeah. No, I think to piggyback on that, I think we actually said this a couple episodes ago when we were dealing with purchasing textbooks
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And a lot of students don't realize that many school libraries have textbooks on hold for the class
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So if you don't want to buy that $300 textbook for your class and it's not something that you need to have in class, it's more of like a homework and studying kind of supplementary text
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That's a great way to save $300 in a semester. Or more because it's multiple books
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And, you know, you got to be quick, though. Oh, yeah, because other people do know that
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Yeah. 10, 15, 20, 30, 160 people in the class. The library is only going to have a few copies at best, right
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Sometimes only one, two or three copies. So you better be on the ball, right
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As they say, get there early. Check that thing out. And there is issues about how you check it out and continue reserving it the whole semester
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Right. So you can kind of share the love there in terms of who's got access
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Yeah. And also to kind of reiterate what we said in that episode, you know, it's a good idea to contact your professor early to see if it's something that's needed
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So that way you can get the jumpstart on getting it reserved. Absolutely
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What's another one? Movies. most of them have movie libraries in there where not just educational stuff some like cool movies
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and you can go check it out you can actually lots of them have media rooms and stuff too
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you can go in there and watch some pretty cool stuff just to entertain yourself that one i didn't
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even realize yeah i mean it could be a fun place right especially for like introverts who just are
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you know uh cinema files or video video files you know just love it um it's a great spot you
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know normally the rooms are set up pretty well they'll have high quality headphones you can use
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and stuff like that mine another one for me would be the breakout rooms i i've i now i did use the
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breakout rooms a couple times if i if i went that's pretty much what i went because i was more
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of i got more out of group studying than i did studying by myself if i was studying by myself i
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I tend to get my attention starts to drift, something catching my attention and it just
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goes away from studying. But when I'm with a group, I tend to be more engaged and I'm
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and I love questions. When somebody asks me a question that I can answer, it kind of reiterates
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to me, it reemphasizes what I need to know. And so it helps me study in that way too. So I love group setting studies and those breakout
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To be able to have a common room where nobody else is going to bother you
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It's a smaller room, but it's a common room. It's got a table. But also have like a dry erase board in there
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All these resources for you to have and you can reserve it for this time period
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That was something that I felt was really, really nice. It's not having to study, you know, at a McDonald's or Starbucks or anything
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It's a quiet area that you can really hone in on. And you can, like I said, that dry erase board, that's where I learned the value of a dry erase board
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That was huge for me. So if you didn't know this, you can definitely use those as group study rooms
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Gotcha. That's a great one. I love, I mean, especially when they have the movable whiteboards and stuff like that
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That stuff's awesome. Librarians. You know, everybody thinks the librarians, they're just a shushie
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And they are. But they have. Sorry, you caught me off guard when you said shoo-shoo
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Yeah, right? But they are amazing. Most of them have degrees in library science
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You can go up there and ask them almost anything. It's like your own personal Google, but a helpful one, right
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It's like Google meets TaskRabbit. You ask them about anything, they will go to work for you
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They'll be like, you know, let me look into this. I bet there's resources here
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Let's identify there's resources in this way, this way, this way. You could probably use them in this way
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Here, let me help you find these. They will walk you. You don't even have to look for things
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They will walk you around the library, show you where to get things. They will help you figure out how to use it
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I mean, I've never seen a more helpful group. And I think the reason for that is people just don't ask them for help other than where's the bathroom type scenario
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And like, you know, they're they're waiting to show you how skilled and how knowledgeable
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they are. And then somebody actually like takes advantage of it. They're like, I need a lot of help
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They're like, you are in the right place, my friend. I mean let me take that one step further though because I will say this This is this is especially in the program I in right now If you need help with knowing how to cite something or something in the research department they know what they doing
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Like the whole APA or what other we use APA. That's all I know. MLA, maybe they know it and they know it very well
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So if you ever have issues with that, that's a perfect resource to go to. And like you said, they love the questions because that's the interaction
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Yeah. I mean, so that is that is an introverts Mecca. Right. You know, people don't realize it
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You know, extroverts like being around a lot of people and having cursory relationships, introverts and extroverts get energized by that
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Introverts get exhausted by that, the superficial widespread. But they tend to have very strong, deep relationships with small groups of people and they get just as energized by that
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Right. So, you know, the type thing is, you know, when you put somebody, you know, you allow them to show what they're passionate about
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Yeah. Doesn't matter that they're not social butterflies, you know, in a normal setting
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Like they will really go to bat and work hard for you. And lots of them are just really nice people, really cool people
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Yeah. We have any other ones. Yeah. I mean, there are other things about the library that that I would say are pretty useful
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Well, number one, Internet. I mean, you know, yeah, you've got Wi-Fi everywhere, but when you need to upload and download things, they tend to have physical plugs there
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You can bring your laptop. You can check out a laptop. They have lots of times stand-alone computers, you know, sometimes that are a lot faster than your computer
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Sometimes they're not awesome. Right. But you never know. It depends on the time of year and, you know, because they replace the technology so frequently
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But, you know, having the physical like, you know, high speed, sometimes fiber internet
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connectivity, if you've got to upload things to the cloud, big files and stuff that would
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otherwise take you a long time, it just it happens in seconds or minutes when you do that
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So anyway access that you know and you know I don I don I not completely oblivious to the fact that how lucky we are to have these resources
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And a lot of people at home don't have those resources. If they go on the internet, it is via their phone because they don't have a computer at home
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or they don't have anything faster than, you know, 5G or 4G or 3G or whatever their own
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Right. To get onto the Internet, going to the library and having that access means a lot
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So it's a resource for people who otherwise don't have access. If nothing else, that's why I'm so pro library, even though they get so little use like public libraries in small towns
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If nothing else, they give people who otherwise don't have that resource, that resource
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Right. I think the best way to I would create libraries that were nothing but media centers
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Right. In small towns, because I believe it would change people's lives. I think the best way to sum it up is for those who who need resources, it's a very good cost saving resource because you have access to this where you don't have to purchase yourself
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The only thing is, is if you're living off far away, I mean, you do have to get through the distance
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And like I said, that was probably my biggest hurdle when I was in college is that I was, you know, 20, 25 minutes away from campus
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and it was just I didn't feel the need to go there, take that time
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Looking back, I know I could have used it differently. I mean, obviously, even now in my program now
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we still use the library. Every residency, we go to the library
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I use more of it, obviously, online, being able to summon articles and stuff like that
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but I do use it quite a bit more now. So it's a great resource
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and I think that's kind of what we were hoping to get out of this episode, even though we were polar opposites, you know, we can kind of
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I'm sure there's people out there going, I don't need, I don't need a library. And that was me. And there's people that, that live in the library, uh, that, that
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that see the value in it. And, uh, so we kind of hope we, we, we, uh
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showed that the scale here between us two. Well, let me give one more. And this one's for you, AJ
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Okay. Well, this would be interesting. Outside of the library the library steps the portico whatever comes in at least that my college It is a great social place It is People take breaks from studying go out there have snacks just hang out and talk And you meet some of the most
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interesting people. And, you know, in class, you plop down in class, it's very hard to meet
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everybody in your class. And it's hard to talk to anybody other than the person sitting right beside
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you, you know, left or right or whatever, even front and rear is very difficult to. But when at
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the library you just walk outside you walk back and forth you just you can chat with anybody you
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can make some great friends or just some fun acquaintances just chit chat with people at the
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library you're all doing the same thing you're all studying there's that breaking ice isn't very hard
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right so so what are you staying for i yeah i didn't i didn't think about that yeah so there's
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a huge social aspect there too and a lot of that's what college is about right the socialization of
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yourself. It is true. It is true. Well, this is this episode. When I saw this, I was like
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oh, good Lord, I'm not going to be able to impart anything into it because I didn't this. I think
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this episode lasted longer than the amount of time I spent in the library. But it is actually
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been a pretty interesting episode. And it's fun to hear your perspective, the way you use it. I
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think that was really interesting. And I think hopefully that'll help a lot of listeners out when it comes to, you know, finding value in the library
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