I'm always putting my foot in my mouth.
I don't stop to think.
I just, you know, just go, oh no, words are coming out.
Oh no, I'm not thinking what is it.
Like I met this woman recently.
I could have sworn she was pregnant.
Let me tell you.
I know now.
I think the rule is don't get set that ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever.
It's not like that.
I didn't have enough ever's memorized, you know.
So I said, hey, what's that baby do?
You have to feel the word coming up, but it's too late to stop it.
It's coming out and loud.
Hey, what's that baby do?
What baby?
At the zoo, the pandas.
I knew they were trying to have one.
I thought we'd talk about them, talk about the fluffy zoo animals that day.
I hear they got them over there.
You can go look at them and if you want, touch them.
Have you ever guessed somebody's gender wrong?
There's no recovering from that.
You just got to move on because you ain't wriggling out of nothing, you know.
Hey, excuse me, sir.
Ma'am, okay.
Okay, bye, bye, human.
That's a good person.
Nice to meet you, individual.
Ooh, Merry Christmas, Christmas comes this time each year.
Ooh, well, away up north where the air gets cold.
There's a tale about Christmas that you've all been told.
And a real famous cat, all dressed up in red.
And he spends the whole year working out in his sled.
It's a little sacred, it's a little sacred, it's a little sacred.
Just a little pop slip, we call it a little sacred.
But she'll walk it till the fog and hold the cold speed stick.
She can't de-appel it with the skateboard.
And the sound of it's the gas man, just watch it.
It's a little sacred, it's a little sacred.
It's a little sacred, it's a little sacred.
Run, run, reindeer.
Run, run, reindeer.
Run, run, reindeer.
Run, run, reindeer.
We don't miss no one.
We're almost through the snow at a brightness peak.
With the half of the dozen deer with the rudely.
He's got to wear his goggles because the snow really flies.
And he's cruising every path with a little surprise.
It's a little sacred, it's a little sacred.
It's a little sacred, it's a little sacred.
Merry Christmas.
Christmas comes this time each year.
Merry Christmas.
Christmas comes this time each year.
Merry Christmas.
Christmas comes this time each year.
It's a little pop slip, we call it a little sacred.
Merry Christmas.
Today's public library is more than books.
And if you haven't been there lately, you're missing plenty.
Read, listen, look, take part, learn, grow, enjoy yourself.
And your public library.
It's a traditional entertainment that's sensational.
It's a way of life.
It's for you and me.
It's the latest.
It's the greatest.
It's the library.
It's the latest.
It's the greatest.
It's the library.
Your public library.
Library, library.
How many kids say library?
Where did I get a library from?
There's an R in this.
Like, February.
Is that February?
It's February.
It's February.
Some adults say it too.
Oh, tell me about it.
And I'm just about to correct them.
And I say, don't do it.
It's automatic for me to say, it's February.
That's fine.
February.
You're right.
Absolutely, you're right.
Shake King is here.
Shake King is the head of marketing and business development subcategory.
Before the recene public library.
Library.
It seems natural to say library.
And I thank you for coming on again.
Folks from the library come here every month.
And we love talking to you guys.
It's great to be back.
Things happen to me.
It's such a resource that a lot of people don't use.
I can go to people of my neighborhood that you've been the library.
Where is it?
Where is it?
You can't miss it.
It's right there.
I live not far from it.
But a lot of people don't even have a library card.
How could you not have a library card?
I know.
I actually signed someone up for their first library card just a couple of weeks ago.
See, another kid, the library card was paper.
Like a little hard.
It wasn't cardboard, but it was between cardboard and paper.
And you know, with kids, those things don't last very long.
No.
They get wrinkled.
You put them a little ball in your pocket then, young.
But they used to do it differently back then.
They take a picture when you took a book out of the library.
You got three things they took a picture of your card.
The actual book card and the date to return card.
Every time you checked it out.
It was on film.
Yes.
Every time they took a picture of it, the flash went off.
That is very detailed.
Well, that's before computers.
So he didn't have a choice.
I mean, this is how you had to keep track of, you know,
the link was like me who didn't return stuff.
And they check the film all the time.
And they wrote down, you know, who's, you know, what's due tomorrow.
But they always had to check the film.
It's like, it's like when you're doing a football game.
Just check the film.
And that's the way they used to do it back then.
I mean, it sounds ludicrous about today's standards.
But before RFID tags.
I think that's something new with the library.
Yes.
And I was, I was staring at the guy.
I was checking out some stuff.
And they said, aren't you going to like, you know,
scan it with a wand?
No, no, no, no, no need.
Just put it on this like a tool.
Oh, yeah.
Just put it on this thing.
And it does it automatically.
I love those things.
You can put a whole stack of books.
That's what he did.
He took a whole stack of CD.
There they are.
He took a whole stack.
There they are.
He took a whole stack of CD's.
And he put them on there.
He said, done.
I said, that's it.
Technology is amazing.
It's better than taking a picture of it.
I'm filming on film.
And you can hear the film in the thing going,
mmm, as it moves, mmm.
As it gets moving around.
But that was my library.
And I, you know, I should bring next time you're in here.
I still have bye-bye birdie from 1968.
And I have, um, they didn't give you a card with the newspaper.
I have variety newspapers.
They used to stamp it right on the newspaper.
Because there was no way to put the card.
I know it would be crazy.
Yeah, well, that's why a lot of librarians were in South
Oaks on, uh, on Long Island.
They went crazy.
They were almost straight jackets.
I can't do it anymore.
But I still have the, the card, the date card in the album
for bye-bye birdie.
Ooh.
Oh, that's a relic.
You should keep it.
Well, you know, it's funny because years ago,
yeah, maybe I had 25, 30 years ago.
I called them up and they said, yeah, I found it.
I was unpacking a box.
And they said, no, I wasn't going to do records anymore.
Well, now they do records again.
They do.
And I wonder if they wanted back.
I mean, you can't buy bye-bye birdie on records anymore.
Wow, that's true.
You can't buy bye-bye birdie.
You can't buy.
I'm sure I got that right.
You can't buy bye-bye birdie.
And my brother has two books out, one from 1958,
called The Giant, and one from 1963, the Roger Marrett story.
He played for the Yankees.
You know, they didn't have, you know,
Bookman, like Mr. Bookman from Seinfeld,
the detective to go out.
They sent you a notice.
And if you didn't return it, that was it.
And it's not like today where they can scan your card
and look at the screen.
So you've got bye-bye birdie.
I'm Mr. Rose, and it's been 60 years.
They could play.
It wasn't, they would have to check the film.
So when you went out to take something new,
they couldn't see that you had stuff out already.
Unless they pulled up the record.
Mr. Rose, I want you to step into our theater over here.
We have a film we want to show you right now.
We'll give you some popcorn.
You can watch it.
It's your history of not returning stuff.
Let's take a look, Mr. Rose.
That's basically what my library was.
I remember when the Institute of the Book Mobile,
when I was a kid, you know, I said,
the library's coming to my, it didn't come to my street.
It came to the elementary school where they parked outside there.
And I said, wow, this is the library.
I had a library in the school, but this one's out in the,
you know, you get to where your jacket and everything inside.
I love going on those things.
Like as a kid, that was such an exciting thing to go
to the grocery store or wherever you're headed.
And to see the book mobile parked right there.
But I always wondered, how did they know what books I wanted?
Why wouldn't I think that they read my mind?
How do they select the books for the book mobile, you know?
So there's actually a separate collection just for book mobile books.
Not that we won't take books from the main section of the library,
especially if we have a request.
But there's a whole room in the back of the library
that is just the books we put on the book mobile.
So it's, you know, the most popular books.
They'll be a selection of DVDs.
Oh, you have DVDs in there too?
Yes, I think so, yeah.
It tends to be, it tends to be a lot of,
just a lot of general fiction.
And then a lot of DVDs are the most two common things
that people check out, actually.
Well, when they opened up another branch of my library,
they had two branches, the original one from the 50s,
early 50s, and then another one by the shopping center.
And I said, well, are you taking half the books from this library
and putting them in there?
And I said, well, we're taking some of them from here.
And I draw, I could ride my bicycle to the library, one of them.
And it took about a half hour to ride your bike there, wasn't it, close?
Not bad.
But the other one, I had to take the bus.
And so if I wanted to pick up a book for school to cheat on, you know,
a book report, now I had to take the bus to go get it
because the library was on the other side of town.
I went a few times to the New York Library, the Manhattan Library,
not the New York Public Library.
There's two libraries in New York.
There's a Manhattan Library, and there's the New York Public Library.
The New York Public Library is like a city.
It's got different zip codes inside there.
But the Manhattan Library is where I like because they had the microfilm
for the newspapers I wanted.
So I went there, and it was, even though it's the second library, it's huge.
I mean, I've never seen anything, and the New York Public Library is.
I mean, you need to have a tour guide going through that place.
If they built the first one and decided they needed a bigger one.
Well, they have other branches.
But those are the two main ones in Manhattan.
The Manhattan Library is on 42nd Street in Lexington, I think.
Somewhere around there.
I'm going to think.
Yeah, Lexington in 20 seconds.
I don't know where exactly where.
The New York Public Library is up down a little bit.
But the, let's talk about some library closures first of all.
Because people said, I think I'm going to go to the book deal today.
No, you're not.
You sure aren't.
Yeah, well, you can go to it.
It's locked.
I mean, you can go to it.
You don't take the books out of here every.
That's a really good question.
I think what happens is that the bookmobile staff will cycle some of them out every time the
bookmobile gets ready to go out.
But I think there's still books on board there almost any time.
That's it.
But that's a schlep to take those things out every time.
You've got that job.
All right.
The bookmobile is going to be closed.
It's closed.
What is it today?
Oh, yeah.
It's closed now through January 2nd.
Yes.
That's right.
And so after that, the book, sand is using the bookmobile children.
He needs it to deliver books and toys.
That's right.
He's using that bookmobile.
So they have to give it up through January 2nd.
It's full of presents right now.
They took all the books off, actually.
Yeah.
Okay.
We're talking to Shay King.
He's the head of marketing business development for the recene public library.
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Refreshed.
Santa baby.
Just slip a sable under the tree for me.
Been an awful good girl.
Santa baby.
So hurry down the chimney tonight.
Santa baby.
A fifty four convertible to light blue.
I'll wait up for you dear.
Santa baby.
So hurry down the chimney tonight.
Think of all the fun I've missed.
Think of all the fellows that I haven't kissed.
Next year I could be.
Just as good.
If you check off my Christmas list.
Santa baby.
I want a yacht and really that's not.
So that's Earth of Kent doing Santa baby.
The following year this was a big smash hit Santa baby.
She decided I'm going to do it in this year's Santa baby.
Same music with different lyrics.
The song flop.
Nobody wanted to play.
It was the same song.
Just different lyrics.
I mean, so they've got the good thing.
Well, how many Christmas songs is Earth of the kid?
I always said if you do one song in your entire life,
write one song.
Make it a Christmas song.
Because people played every single year forever.
Do you know what the first number one Christmas song was ever
on the Billboard Hot 100 chart?
What's that?
The Chipmunk song.
No.
That was the first one ever to hit the number one.
And I could tell you, my mother bought us that song.
My brother and I, my dad, it was, it was,
right?
A few days before Christmas.
It was nasty weather outside.
And my brother and I, you know, it wasn't like today with us a
million things to do.
It was TV or play with some toy that's, you know, a relic today.
Right.
And so my mother said, she said, I'll be right back.
She drove in a, in the snow to Bohak Supermarket because in the
basement was Jim's bargain basement where you have 45 RPM records.
And in 1958, she went downstairs, bought us for 39 cents,
the Chipmunk song.
And she hasn't known peace ever since.
And she brought it back because we were so down because my
father wasn't home yet.
It was snowing.
And she put it on and we all had fun playing it over and over.
And do you know up until a year ago last summer, actually?
I threw it in the garbage.
I took all my 45 RP.
I was cleaning out the house and I said, you know, I just get rid of
more.
And it was in there from 1958, the one my mother bought.
It was a black label.
It was Liberty Records.
I didn't remember the record label.
Black Liberty Records label.
Alwyn and the Chipmunks.
And you know what?
We cheered up.
And my father came home and we're all laughing.
I keep in mind.
I was like, well, four years old.
As daddy looked.
I told him to chipmunk.
And that was the first number of the song.
You think you're coming here and you're going to teach me.
I'm teaching you.
I'm here to get school.
I'm teaching you what to do.
You found out about Earth, the kids flop.
You found out about Alwyn and the Chipmunks.
It just gets better and better.
Okay.
Let's talk about some of the things here.
So the book mobile is going to be closed.
Let's get the closures done.
Then the library is going to be closed.
Christmas day, the day after Christmas, January 1st and January 2nd.
One of those.
That's right.
The 26th and January 2nd recovery days.
What are they?
So usually when we have a holiday, like Christmas Eve falls on the weekend.
So then everybody gets a day off on a weekday instead.
But then the next week, days Christmas.
So we get Tuesday.
You know what days we get off in radio?
None.
You're going to be on air every day next week, aren't you?
This is the first time I've finagled Christmas day on New Year's Day.
We have a best of.
Good for you.
Get a break.
Get a break.
But then you get a finagle to show that we'll be going ever ready where it's not dated.
But that's that's good.
Okay.
And Monday, January 15th, is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day?
That's right.
When my wife and I went to Memphis, we were doing a road, one of our road trips.
And we went to the Lorraine motel.
You know what that is?
No.
The Lorraine motels were Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.
He was on the balcony of the Lorraine motel.
And that famous picture of him laying on the balcony with the men who were with him pointing
to where the gunshot came from.
So I went there and it was standing on that spot.
And I said, oh, no.
History.
World history changed right where I'm standing because this is where he laid when he died right
here on this spot.
This is where those guys were pointing off to where the James R. Ray shot the rifle from.
That's crazy.
The motel is still there.
Well, it's not a motel anymore.
It's a shrine now.
Okay.
That makes more sense.
That makes more sense.
And right across the street is the Civil Rights Museum.
And that's where the gunshot came from.
Now you can go.
It wasn't a Civil Rights Museum at the time.
No, no.
I think it was a warehouse building.
But you can go in that building and stand in the room where that gunshot came from.
Shoot.
They have the rifle there on display of everything.
It's got to go there.
It takes hours to go through these places.
Yeah.
But to stand there on the rainbow tail and you look in his room and they put it exactly
as it was the day he was assassinated, everything's exactly the same.
Now they're all new things and the same, which isn't real anymore.
But just to stand on that spot, I don't know why are we talking about this anyway, memories
are growing up.
Oh, January 15th.
That's what we talked about.
That's right.
Okay.
I should be going tonight, so I'm going to how tired I am.
Breed a Disobree.
Oh, yeah.
That's one of the favorites.
Yeah.
We go.
I'm going to go tonight and what you tell what that is.
So Breed a Disobree is like a book club, but not just books.
There's no reading assignment or listening assignment.
You just come in.
You enjoy the cheese that we put out.
That's why it's called the Breed a Disobree.
And it's not always Breed by the way.
That's correct.
Goat cheese, it'll be cheese with like cranberries in it.
It'll be a different cheese every, every month.
Cheddar to this, a cheddar.
Okay.
Go ahead.
So you come in and you just chat with the other attendees of the program about whatever
you've been watching or listening to or reading lately.
And maybe you'll walk away with some new recommendations for media to try.
You know, and I had a good, we didn't go to the last one because I was so exhausted.
I bet.
I just didn't go as reigning or something was going crazy anyway.
So, but you meet new people and you have conversations with them and it's nothing heavy.
I mean, it's like, hey, do you see the concert?
Hey, do you see that moving age?
Do you see that TV show?
Do you read that book?
I have to bring a book into it because it's a library.
But anyway, and to find the room, it's right to the children's library.
There's a secret handshake.
There's a secret lock.
A little handbook comes down.
You pull that.
A secret door opens up and you're in.
It's not that difficult, but also, oh, my wife has, would you want to ask me something?
Okay.
I wrote it down.
Yes, I do take autographs, yes, that's what she wanted.
It was the, the, the battle of the books.
Oh, yeah.
She wanted to know if you can go there and just watch the battle of the books.
Oh, that's a really good question, actually.
It's not a no.
It's a, I don't know.
It's not a no.
I think that there are spectators.
I don't know about our library, but when I did battle of the books as a kid, you could
just come in and observe.
But there were, there were rules.
You had to make sure that you weren't writing anything down or doing anything that made
it look like you were signaling the attendees, the answers.
You're telling me people cheated that?
They do.
Do you know at the spelling bee, which was the national spelling bee from Scripps
Howard?
There were parents in the audience, and I don't think they'll know the truth to the word.
They're filming it all because they got to catch these parents.
Oh, no.
And one kid who did well said, I didn't, I didn't see it.
I really didn't.
The parent got to knock down, you got a dopey mother and it was doing that.
Hold on.
Shake King is here from the Racine Public Library at 629 at WRJN, civic media radio, hometown
radio, refreshed.
Stay right we are.
Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, right down Santa
Claus Lane.
He's got a bag that's filled with toys for boys and girls again, hear those sleigh bells
jingle, jingle, oh what a beautiful sight.
So jump in bed and cover your head, cause Santa Claus comes tonight.
Shake King is here, she's the head of marketing and business development for your Racine Public
Library and I say your Racine Public Library, like when I do the concerts for the Racine
Concert Band since it's tax dollars and bomb, I say your Racine Concert Band.
That's right.
And it's your letter carrier, it's your sanitation collector, it's your free-tweeper, as we
own them.
That's fairs.
So this is Genotry and you said you're not familiar with Genotry.
Genotry.
Genotry.
Genotry was a singing cowboy in the movies in the early movies when they first turned
to sound.
He had all these cowboy movies where he'd sing songs, melody, ranch, they can have all these
type of movies.
He came very wealthy man, he lived that in California, bought a lot of real estate, he came
very wealthy.
He eventually owned the California Angels Major League Baseball Team, who was the owner
for years of the California Angels.
He also.
I'm alright, that's my blood sugar going off again.
All over Genotry.
So Genotry went on to own a ton of radio and TV stations, golden west broadcasters they
called it.
So he was a big owner of TV and radio out on the west coast and the Pacific Northwest.
And for when I hear one of the nicest people, so this song here comes Santa Claus, he was
always in the Santa Claus Lane Parade in Hollywood.
I used to watch it on TV all the time, they used to run it every year on delay, they used
to run it like a week after it was.
It was all the big movie stars were in the convertibles and Santa Claus Lane.
So he was one of the stars, the guy on the California Angels.
So he was one of the stars and he would ride in the open convertible and behind him was
the Santa Claus float.
And when he went by, all the kids were yelling, here come Santa Claus, here come Santa Claus.
Right down Santa Claus Lane.
Beautiful.
And that's where the song came from.
He said, he said they wouldn't even say here comes Genotry, but here come Santa Claus
because he's right behind it, they could see Santa Claus.
And so he's saying this song, here come Santa Claus, right down Santa Claus Lane.
That's good.
See, I should charge you for this education, you're getting it free.
Honestly.
Let's get back to our recene public library here.
Twin crafts with Kay.
That's right.
Is Kay a person?
Yeah.
Okay.
Her name's Kionte, but for the program, we call her Kay, for short.
So that is tonight, 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the community room upstairs.
That's one of the new rooms that our renovation built.
It's for tweens, ages 9 to 12 for the purposes of this program.
You do need to register, which you can do at racinglibrary.info slash calendar, but the
craft program is super fun, super cool.
Kionte's got an awesome personality, works really well with the kids, and tonight she's
going to be teaching them how to make personalized stencil, stencil bags.
Oh, great.
Yeah.
Great for Christmas gift giving.
Exactly.
There you go.
A nice, nice and expensive gift.
Or gift carrying.
Oh, what?
Or gift carrying.
Oh, gift carrying.
That's right.
I don't think I'm going to have that many gifts to carry.
Spanish and English citizenship classes.
Now, this is important because, you know, a lot of immigrants come into the country and
you have to take it.
If you're born here, you don't have to take a test.
I would love to see how many natural born citizens in this country would fail that test.
I'd probably fail it.
I'm terrible with history.
I mean, when you, some of the questions I, I've seen the, we went on the air years ago.
I read the questions.
They're not difficult.
Mm-hmm.
But I don't think a lot of people would be able to pass the citizenship test in this
country.
But you would have to take the course.
That's right.
And so this is given one now.
So we actually did just have our last class of the year last night.
Oh, yeah.
Look at that.
I know.
But that is going to be starting up again next year.
Okay.
So it's going to end up being on Wednesdays still.
So next year, we're moving to just doing the English courses.
Unfortunately, we are discontinuing the classes where we help people learn to take the Spanish
speaking version of the courts.
But come back in the new year.
If you're getting ready to take your citizenship exam class and the hosts, Vochez de la Frontera
will help you learn everything you need to know.
You can come in as many classes as you want to and just do whatever you need to do to
feel confident to take the exam.
That's great.
I didn't know that it was even offered the chess club.
I play chess, but I'm the person who doesn't fact this, all right, move, all right, move,
all right, move.
And the person who's playing is, come on, move already.
But there's a method to playing.
I like when they say, well, I'm going to make the move that Casper made in 1960, 80 made
this move.
Let's make the move.
Have you watched the Queen's Gambit?
No.
It is a TV show on Netflix, all about a woman who becomes the best chess player in the world.
She's got a knack for it.
Nobody can beat her.
And I learned a lot about chess.
There are just hundreds and hundreds of specific setups and moves and people, the study
and things to know, which tells me why I was so bad at it.
I lost every single game I played when I joined my libraries, chess club, back home as
a kid.
But maybe you'll do better.
Did you ever see these people that play multiple games at one time?
Yep.
Yep.
They have like six games lined up.
And the players on the other side of each playing one game, but this person's going down
the line, making moves and six different, how do you do with that?
Right.
I wish that my brain had that many tracks for chess.
It doesn't even seem to have one track for chess, though, unfortunately.
This was when my brain worked in some hours of the day.
So the chess club is when it's on the 27th on the 27th on the 4 p.m., that excuse me,
at 4 30 to 6 30, we don't be at it right 5 to 7.
Oh, it's after we're done.
I'm looking at the wrong thing here.
Okay, it's after that.
Okay.
5 to 7.
You have to register before how does that work?
You can register.
It's helpful because it'll give us a sense of how many boards to put out if we know how
many people are coming, but you can't also just show up.
So that's going to be 5 to 7, Wednesday, December 27th in the community room again.
And that's for all ages.
So when you arrive, just settle in, get started with the match with whoever's there,
our facilitator, Jeff Garcia usually hosts, he'll be out of town this particular evening.
So it'll just be the players, but come on in and meet some new folks and try your hand
at a game.
Now see, the rooks move in an L shape, one, one, two,
the nights.
I know that much.
The nights, the nights, the nights, the nights, the night, the horses, they move in an L shape.
The rooks move straight, and they don't, they move straight up and straight to the side.
The bishops move at the angles, they move diagonally across the board.
The king and the queen can move any direction.
That's right.
And if you succeed at getting upon to the other side of the board, you can choose a piece
to turn it into just, just not the king.
I know.
All right.
Services and activities always available to the library.
This is something I'm not familiar with, a supply swap.
It's new.
He just launched it.
I'm fully familiar with it.
So the supply swap is an initiative that we started after seeing the interest that we
had gotten in the stitch and bitch, because a lot of folks will come in with just oodles
of craft supplies.
Like very seasoned knitters and crocheters have just hordes, respectfully, of yarn and
knitting needles crochet hooks that they just, they need some more to give it that somebody's
going to make use out of it.
So we started the supply swap.
It is currently a little blue cart in our Beyond Books collection on the second floor.
And this is where you can come browse all of the supplies that our club members have
donated and pick out a ball of yarn, grab some crochet hooks and try your hand at the
craft or pick something you need for a project without needing to make a trip to the store
without needing to buy an entire ball of yarn that you might not use all of.
A supply swap.
That's right.
You can put your supplies in, swap them out.
Yep.
And then whenever you have supplies that you're not going to use, pay it forward and bring
them in.
Well, there you go.
That's a service I never thought of before.
Somebody get warm, study, use the internet or a computer, use a game, ask at the big circle
desk of the second floor, coloring page during what's coloring page like crayons?
Yeah.
We have actually crayons and markers that you can use in the library, just ask for them
at the big circle desk on the second floor and you can sit at a table with a free coloring
sheet if you need something to do and you know what?
It's the latest.
It's the greatest.
It's the library.
Who knew this stuff even went on?
Now, these are new to me.
I never knew they went on.
I go in there.
I know exactly where I'm going.
I'm focused.
I'm headed off to DVDs, CDs, microfilm.
I'm very focused.
I don't look around and say, I wonder what I can do today.
This is why I love telling people about all the little Easter eggs we offer, basically,
because for a lot of people, the library is the place they come to get books or try
something new or they'll go to a program.
But we're at the time of your programming is quiet.
We still want you to think of the library as a place you can just come and hang out.
You can study in a study room.
You can meet up with some friends and drink a coffee in our food-aloud areas.
You can get a coloring sheet.
You can also ask at the big circle desk for a board game that you can play with somebody
to use in the building.
We have games for checkout on the Beyond Books collection and then we have games just for
use in the library at the big circle desk on the second floor.
They have a sauna and indoor pool.
If you do have that beautiful view of Lake Michigan, where you can sit on a nice comfortable
chair, grab a book, or just stare out the window, it is so beautiful to watch.
When I get there early, that's where I like to go.
Oh, good.
Now we know what you're doing.
We finally found you out.
Also here, this is coming now, new programs in 2024.
This is stuff we never heard of before, the reading challenge.
Yeah, so reading challenges themselves are not new, but we have a couple of new ones
that we're doing next year.
We have both the Pride 365 Reading Challenge and the where we come from, Winter Reading Challenge.
The Winter Reading Challenge, that is January 1st through January 31st, I think I'm mumbling
my words alone.
January 1st, January 31st.
This is a three-gallon coffee abroad, man.
I need a little bit more of that.
The entire month of January, and then the Pride 365 Reading Challenge is the entire year,
so January 1st through December 31st.
I wish I was a kid again.
Right.
Well, you can join them.
They're all ages.
Who's that old man coming in?
What is he doing here?
These are...
They're playing with your own age, people.
They're very self-directed programs, so you don't actually need to show up at the library
that you can come in and talk to the librarians about them, ask questions, get some help.
But the gist is you will go to racinglibrary.beenstack.com.
That's a Reading Challenge platform, and if you have an account, which all you need to
do is use your library card and number and pin to get started, then you can go look through
all the challenges we have available, and whichever one you sign up for, it'll have a specific
reading list.
You can read any of the books on the list to get points that you'll learn badges for,
and there's also activities themed after the challenge that you can participate in that
also give you points and badges.
Sometimes these prizes, but usually you'll see more of the prizes over the summer for
the summer reading program.
Around this time of year, it's just a nice incentive encouragement to get folks reading
more.
Steam programs.
Now, I...
It's an acronym, Steam.
I've got what it's said for.
Yes.
It's Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math.
And you have some new ones for 2024.
I can't believe it's saying 2024.
2024.
I'm going to accidentally say 2023, so catch me if I do.
But so we have a new batch of staff actually in the Innovation Lab who are interested in
some of the more advanced computing, advanced programming.
So the Innovation Lab is always a place just to come in, tinker with toys, and learn the
very basics of how to use a computer or steam skills.
But I really want to tell you about some of the new more unique programs that we've
started to offer, or we'll start to offer next year.
So we have getting started with Linux.
Do you know what Linux is?
It's a computer.
I'm going to say platform, but it's like Windows, but it's Linux.
Exactly.
So there's Windows, there's Mac, and then there's also computer nerds, love Linux.
I had a guy in college who was always trying to convince me that I just needed to set up
Linux on my computer and then my life was going to be sold out.
Yeah, it's all using Windows in Mac, are you?
You know what they invented the wheel?
And one of the perks of Linux is that a lot of people say it'll help an older machine
that's hard to use these days if it still runs Windows, but it's kind of laggy.
You can set up Linux on it.
It takes a little bit of basic know-how, but our computer experts will walk you through
that, and it's on January 3rd, noon to 1st, bring whatever machine you want to set Linux
up on.
It has to be a computer.
Oh, you bring your old computer in, so a laptop, a computer, it can be Mac, it can
be Windows, it just can't be a tablet or a phone.
We'll set up Linux for you and teach you the basics of how to use it.
WRJN Radio, where with Shade King, this morning business development and head of marketing
at the Racine Public Library, cloudy today with a hundred forty-three, a chance of rain
tonight, those thirty-nine rain-like bit of morrow on the hundred forty-
four, a hundred forty-three, a hundred forty-three, a hundred forty-three, a hundred
six, fifty-two at WRJN Radio, hometown radio over fresh Shade King is here head of marketing
for the Racine Public Library!
Let's talk about a couple of new things, we got them coming in 2024.
The food chair benefits sign it, what is that?
So, food chair, you know what food chair is?
No.
So that's food stamps now, or it was food stamps now, I call it no food chair, yes.
So, the feeding America through food chair, open hours that we have starting in January
are going to begin on Saturday, January 6, 10, 10 30 AM to 1 30 PM, and it's going to
be the first Saturday of every month.
And that's a time to come in with any questions you have, or even just to get help signing
up for food chair.
So, feeding America Eastern Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services
are going to be there to help walk you through the process, answer any questions you need,
and make the process a little bit easier for you.
Well, that's a nice thing.
Yeah.
This is all at the public library, and I can't pronounce that word, but it's storytelling
with the Johnson Historical Society, what's that first word?
Yeah, I actually don't know how to pronounce it either, I hope I'm not mangling it, but
Ojibwe Storytelling, that's one of the Native American nations.
So, Ojibwe Storytelling with the Wisconsin Historical Society, that's going to be Tuesday,
January 9th, 7 to 8 PM, and every Tuesday through the rest of January, that now that's
in youth services on the first floor, it's for all ages you don't need to register.
And this is a program all about the Ojibwe Culture of Storytelling, Winters the Season
of Storytelling.
So the Wisconsin Historical Society is hosting, they're going to be featuring Ojibwe Storytellers
in this four-part airing of their video series dedicated to the entire culture.
No discussion will follow the video of time allows, each session is going to be a little
bit different, so see if you can make it into all four.
I remember once my wife and I went to, somebody was telling something in that night, I
want to say it was haunted stories of this, Johnson, and she was up there.
I remember that one.
And I was fascinated listening to this woman up there, tell these stories, and you know,
people kind of just talk of it, get into the good part.
There were so many things going on, everybody thinks of Library, oh, I don't need any books
today.
You don't need to get books, they have them there.
They don't worry about the books, but there's so many services and programs and people
really working hard, and they're all free.
They're all free?
There's nothing I'm going, I can't wait.
I'm going to stay awake tonight.
I go to bed at like 6.37 in the clock, because my alarm goes off at 4.30, I try to get
up before the alarm goes off, but I'm going to go to breathe to disabry tonight, and
we'll be happy to have you.
Yeah, it's really fun.
And the two people who run it are very nice people.
I don't know their names, the young couple, and I forget their names, because they told
me and I forgot.
Margaret Russell is one of them, if I remember correctly.
You get the guy's name, though.
I don't know the guy's name.
I just don't Margaret's name.
This is Margaret.
Yeah.
He's going to be there as well.
This is really great.
And when you go to the library, and you said, I can't remember anything, you said, you
get one of these nice little brochures.
Oh, yeah.
There are a number of events, which is very well done.
It's multi-pages, and it's got everything we talked about listed in there now.
I picked up the latest one for December, and January is actually not out yet, but it
will be soon.
Oh, I'm glad then, because I was near the other day, and I said, how stupid am I?
I didn't pick up.
No, you didn't miss anything, not yet.
I may be stupid, but that's not the reason one.
But this has everything in it, the Storytimes programs, resources, events, also you can go
online.
That's right.
Or if you want to go right to the calendar, it's racinglibrary.info-slash-calendar.
Or if you do what I do, have them just email you the information.
You can.
You can go to racinglibrary.info-slash-newsletter and sign up for our email mailing list, and
we'll send you every single week preview of what the next week of programs, events, updates
all look like.
I can tell you something.
I am so glad I called the Racine Public Library to be in here on a regular basis, because
I learned a lot.
And I'm very happy.
You know, I'm definitely.
You're going to bad life.
Did you know, Jean Entrie on the Capitol in Angels and where you wrote that, did you
Earth a kidnap, flop with Santa Baby?
Did you know, I can't find that all these things?
You think you learned stuff at the library, coming to the radio station.
You really learn stuff.
And I hope you can have more people coming in.
Yeah, we will.
Is anybody sad and want to be on the radio, do you get those people?
So we do have a couple of people who just, they, they're very comfortable doing what
they do?
Like, they're like working with patrons on the desk.
They like doing their work, like, throughout the staff area of the library, but public speaking
is just not their thing.
And that's okay.
And it's not, you know, we don't, except for the quiz I give you.
You know, it was a real tough one.
But I think I flunked.
I just want you to tell him, it's just a conversation in the morning.
You bring your breakfast in if you want as long as you share.
Oh, yeah, I didn't see that one over there.
What's that?
Oh, that one's just water.
Man, you get enough water.
You have two to three drinks on me at all times.
Goodness.
You got a little cafe going on here in the morning.
Although I shouldn't really go and buy, bring a bottle of water in the morning.
If you bring a shot glass, I'll pour you a little glass.
Former Mayor, former Mayor John Dickard was in here.
Okay.
He deals a lot with water now.
And he's so me drinking this.
He said, you should be drinking tap water.
Really?
He said, yeah.
And don't, so my wife goes to rustic springs in the connocia and she gets fills up
from that tap they have there.
As she runs through the bread of filter, she says, don't run it through the bread of
filter.
No, don't do that.
Don't do that.
Taste better.
No, then you're taking all the good stuff out of it.
He says, shaking, you have a happy, happy Merry Christmas and happy New Year.
And I'll see you guys in the new year.
Oh, we're coming up.
We're talking high school sports with one of the people ahead of the WIA here in Wisconsin
just a moment.
WRG and radio, hometown radio refresh, civic media.
Clowny today with a high near 43 chance of rain tonight, lows around 39.
Rain like the tomorrow highs near 45 right now.
The sun is out.
37 degrees.
Not bad.
There we are.