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Ok. Uh, can I have your first and last name? My name is Autumn first though. Ok. And autumn, how long have you been coming to Freeman Library? That's a long time. Uh, I've been going to the library, I'd say ever since my brother started baseball, like,

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you know, at the park across the street. But, like I have to say, I've been, like, loyally coming here for the teen zone stuff since I'd say four years for by now. Four or three. So, what is your, um, tell us your typical day at the

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library when you come to the library? What is, what is it that you typically do, uh, typically, like, hang around for a few hours, like goof off, read a books, stuff like that. But then sometimes I'll come and, like, do stuff to either volunteer at the

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Teen Zone for like Tab or I'll, you know, and, uh, participate in some of the Teen zone activities, like, uh, like the video game days and stuff like that. Uh, I know you are a member of Tab, right? So, that's Teen Advisory Board. Can you tell

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us a little bit more about that? What is it that you guys do there? Uh It's basically a bunch of teens getting together uh trying to like plan out more activities to do for the rest of the teams at the Teen Zone. Uh We get together,

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we decide stuff like what movies will be shown on Monday. Uh What food crafts will be making that month. Uh And like, let's say someone wants to do it, wants to introduce a new activity to the Teen Zone. For example, I'm introducing the anime club. Then

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we get meet together with Tony one on one. We introduce it to the rest of the teen zone people. Tony helps us work it out and he'll allow us to like, run the meeting. Uh I know you have a program going on summer, right? Yeah. The,

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the anime club. So you want to tell us a little bit more about anime club. Well, like when anime club first started uh several years ago it was with the, the different, the librarian before Tony. Uh it was a lot of just like streaming and showing

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stuff but, and like that was good for a while, but a lot of people didn't show up eventually, Tony. Uh I didn't have the passion to keep it up even though there, there were some people uh who wanted to do it. So I thought to myself,

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well, I feel comfortable showing people things and running the meeting. I think I could do it So I got together with Tony. Uh more and more problems started popping up like what we couldn't show what we could show. And I thought to myself what we could

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show isn't a lot. And there is stuff that I want to add, you know, to make the club more fun. So to both make up for what we couldn't show and to make it a more involved club. I decided to basically have the first half of

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the anime club for 30 minutes to talk about like cool little facts about Japanese life. For example, last week I was talking about Japanese mythology and the Japanese religion, both like Shintoism and uh Yokai stuff. So the first half is doing a cool presentation then passing

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out treats and showing some anime that's approved by our license licensing agreements. So have you say it's been a good learning experience how to set up a program together? Most definitely, I'd say it's definitely helped with my leadership skills. At least I said something. Yeah, you

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wanna continue later on after the summer? I hope I do. Um Is there? So besides Tab N Ma, is there anything else that you've done at the library? Program wise or class wise that um you found interesting or you really like a lot you want to

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talk about? Um There, there is a lot of uh aside from anime club, there was another thing that I actually helped make. It was another food craft actually. And like, it was just a night, like, we were running out of food crafts and I was like,

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man, we're kind of doing the same thing over and over again. What if I suggested a healthy stuff and Thanksgiving was coming over? So I was like, what if we put trail mix in a corn and like an ice cream cone and called it a cool

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little self made cornucopias? That's awesome. Um Trying to think. So, you've been coming to Freeman for about four years. Have you been to any other libraries before then? Um Like I've been to school libraries, definitely. But I'd have to say I'm pretty loyal to this one.

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Do you, how has the library impacted? Well, I guess again, we might, we might repeating a lot of stuff you already said. But I like how, how significant is the library to your life or how has it impacted your life? I'd say it's impacted my life

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a whole lot because like before coming to the library, like those four years ago, I was pretty much like on a dead set pattern. Wake up, go to school for several hours. Uh It was a pretty involved school downtown. So then I'd also spend a lot

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of time driving home and then the rest would be like doing homework. I didn't have like a lot of time to spend elsewhere. So this was, this was a big thing for like, me spreading my wings and actually doing something aside from what I do every

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day, go to wake up, go to school, come home. So, have you got a lot chance to socialize, meet a lot of new people, meet new friends. Definitely. Um, first anyone who might be interested or for other teens who might not consider a library like a

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hangout place or what would you say to them? Kind of like entice them, maybe even join a tab. I'd say it's definitely something that you need to try at least once to or once or twice to truly get a feel for if it's good. And like,

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I don't blame you for not for at first not thinking if it's something a lot of teens will be involved in. But you'd be surprised how many people come back to like, play games with their friends or how many people come to do the crafts every

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like Thursday and stuff. Pretty much all questions I have at the top of my head. Really? Um Let me see. I'm trying to think of other questions I can ask people like, oh, ok. Random. Uh if I say library, what's the first word that comes or

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first couple of words that come to your head? Your books, bookshelves, I think like those high arching library books is like that have at least like 12 shelves lined up to the wall, dark brown, like dark brown wood, stuff like that. I actually also think of,

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like, libraries to be way more empty than I usually find this one to be. What, like you mean with people, or? Yeah, like, with people, like, there's like, there's a lot of people who are just, like, reading in front of each other or on the computer.

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Like, there's way more than you'd expect there to be. I feel, especially during the summer. Um, so do you think, uh, so Freeman, would that be like your stereotypical idea of a library or, um, have you found that it's like, is there anything surprising about Freeman

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or, like, like, I guess library in general? But I wouldn't say it's your typical library. I definitely feel like it's like, particularly with the teen zone is a lot more involved with people just, I would say like, the, you know, there's more people hanging out than

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I feel in a library where my first thought is. Oh, it's pretty empty. Libraries are meant to be empty and to be quiet and read and stuff. But you'd be surprised for here. Um, that's pretty much all the questions I have. Uh, I think we got

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some really good material but, uh, is there anything else you'd like to add or anything we didn't touch upon that? I think I've said most of what I really want to say. Ok. Awesome. Thank you so much.