It's time to talk Racine Library, a look who's back, Melissa Donaldson. Melissa is the
head of digital services and innovation at the Racine Public Library. So we have a wealth
of knowledge sitting right across from me. We found that you don't like to watch old movies.
Yep. And the library is full of them.
Yes, we are. Tons of old movies in there. See, I love old movies. My wife and I love to go
back and watch old movies. Not so much the silent movies, but you know, once they started talking,
I don't like that. But yeah, I love old movies. They're so good. Anyway, when I hear to talk
about that, we're here to talk about digital, that kind of wipes out old movies, digital and
innovation. And we're going to talk about what's left for the year. But you also, we have to have
a January. Yeah. And it's coming up fast, isn't it? It's coming up in a month and a half. Yeah.
According to my calculations, and I'm with the college, I can do so. Yeah, a month and a half.
Actually, today we're two weeks away from Thanksgiving. I know it's just hard to believe
that these past, the whole fall is just flown by faster than that. Two years of college. And I can
tell you that we're two weeks away. I went to a university, a higher learning, and I figured
that out. All right, let's talk about some of these here. The preschool in toddler steam time.
Before we talk about steam time, this is not a steam bath. It's it's an acronym. What is the
sample? It stands for science, technology, engineering, arts and math. So it's another word
I get learning college acronym. Okay, go ahead. So what we do with this program is we set up
centers and parents or caregivers come in with their children. And they will do different
centers based on each letter of the acronym. So we'll have a science table. We'll have
technology out. We'll have engineering, which is mainly like blocks. We have some of those
old cardboard blocks. Remember those from. They're the favorite of all the kids because they can
build really high towers and knock them down, you know. We always do an art project. And then
we have a math activity as well. So yeah, we always have something out for every every letter
when I was a kid. My parents bought me for Christmas. The giant sheets of cardboard and you
bend them and fold them into blocks and they look like bricks. And there would be 20 of them.
And you stack them up, you kick them down, you make four to them and everything. I love it. It was
just cardboard. That's what these are too. I loved it. It was great. My brother and I used to make
a wall. And you know, we used to lay be on the walls and do secrets behind these walls with
these 20. There were huge blocks. And it was just cardboard. Yep. My parents didn't even put it
together. They just gave me the sheets. I have Merry Christmas. It's a couple of sheets of cardboard.
Well, I just love to how high like they sometimes think that their parents to help stack them higher.
How high can we get it? And then they have fun knocking it down.
Take it make. Now this is hell. The first Tuesday of every month and keep in mind a lot of these
programs are for kids, some are for adults, some are for teens. It's your library. You're paying for
it. You might also take advantage of all this. Yep. So taking make is an activity that you just
come. We'll have them available between the 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. and it'll be an activity you can
pick up and take home and work on together as a family or just by yourself.
Something fun. The um, the senior study time, the seniors. I hate to say a senior tech time,
rather. Um, this is for me. You know, I just last night a friend of mine came over. I gave him an
old laptop. I said, yeah, I get this working. And he asked me a question and said, I don't know.
Don't know anything about that stuff. All I know is when I turn it on, if it doesn't work,
I call you and you can help fix it. But yeah, I don't, I don't know anything about tech. I just,
I don't want to learn it. I don't know anything about it. I'm afraid. And so let's talk about senior tech.
So senior tech time is something new that we're starting um, this January. It's going to be just
a open drop-in session. You come in with your tech. You can ask us your questions and we will try
to answer them to the best of our ability. I got this broken thing. What do you think? I've never seen
that before. I mean, like, so like, for example, if you got a new phone or you got a new tablet for
Christmas, you know, like, how do I use it? You know, I, I, I have this tablet. My wife got me from
my birthday. And when we do our uh, Google meets at the company, I use my cell phone. It's really
easy. I hit it and I just put the cell phone up there. But my daughter said, why do you use that
tablet? It's bigger. And so I turned it on. And I have to change my Google account to the company
account. And it's it verify. It's you. Well, I'm going to bear, I don't know. What do you want in
there? I mean, so I look at it. I think they're looking for a password. Yeah, usually it's a password
and sometimes they'll send like a code to you, but they didn't send a code to your phone. Yeah,
get a code on it. Because sometimes I'll just have to go to my email and to say, yes, this is me.
Well, the problem is they're sending it to an old Google account. I don't have a boyfriend. So
I got to change everything around on my phone again. So I did that. And it still didn't come up.
Oh, that's a bummer. Yeah. So I don't know. I'll just use my, so it's just easy for me to use my phone.
I'll play around with it. What kind of is it like an Android tablet kind of thing? Yeah. Yeah.
What do you check in your head, presuming? No, it's just like, because I know you have an iPhone.
And so like, is it Lenovo Lenovo? Lenovo? Yeah. So sometimes it's just easier if you do have
everything the same, but it doesn't have. I know. My wife and I always had iPhones and she went out
and got a flip phone. And what? Like the new flip phone? No, like an old flip phone. They still
sell them at the TV store. Yes, they do. And she realized after a few weeks, she didn't like that.
She said, I can't do this because when you type a letter and you've got to go to the number
and then you got one, two, three, it's a pain. So she went out and got an Android phone.
So what's going to be Android phone for? Every other family's got, you know, iPhones. Now we've got
a, it's not going to meet and meld, right? And you got a question. I don't know. So I don't know.
There's, it's like beta VHS when VCRs first came out. Yeah, we're good at beta. I got a VHS while they
didn't mesh. Same like Android. Yeah, we have beta, I beta and I beta VHS laser discs. You name
it. I had it. All right. So that's senior tech time. And that's the first Wednesday of every
month. Bring all your junk. You don't understand how it works from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
adults, 55 plus no registration. We're going to wheeling in carts over their latest computers and
tablets. The second Monday of every month is maker Monday. What's that? So maker Monday is
kind of like a showcase of what we have in the innovation lab where you have
centers set up. We'll have some of our robots out. We'll have some of our gaming equipment out. We'll
have you can check out our laser engraver or 3D printers and whatnot. So it's a drop-in program,
open all ages, not just kids. It's open to adults as well. And they just can come in and learn
what we do. I can see how those 3D printers work. I know I've heard about it. I've seen still photographs.
I can't. They did just in receiving. I think the other day they found a house where they were
making 3D guns. And they were making the parts and putting the guns together. And they just I
Stuart J. Wattles was talking about it yesterday. So I can't imagine making a gun from a 3D printer.
But they do. I can't imagine making anything from a 3D. We do not. The only thing the only thing
they make is your notes here. I made it on a printer. And it came out really nice. I just don't
know how one works. I can't imagine putting a key in and getting a real key out of it.
Yeah. So basically you take a 3D image. It's plastic, right? Yeah. We have rolls of plastic.
And the printer takes that 3D image, that 3D mental image and just replicates it in plastic. So
it knows like the slicing software will cut it down layer by layer and allow us to put it down.
You understand all this stuff? I do. It's my job too. I'm talking to Melissa Donaldson head of
innovation and digital services at the Racine Public Library. We got a lot going on that.
This is for 2026. This is the new schedule. Yep. Forget about the old schedule. This is the new
schedule. And we got a lot to talk about. Plus Shay King gave you some extra stuff to add in.
Absolutely. Yeah. So we're going to talk about that.
Gaming. This is huge. My daughter is in her 40s and she sits there with her husband on these
gaming things in her in their house and placed with people all over the world. And she says
this is part of her life. And you know, her job gets in the way of it. So let's talk about gaming.
Yeah. So right now the program that we do, and it's still popular. Minecraft's been around
for a long time. Just had the movie out. Yeah. It's still, I mean, my kids were really little.
My kids are when it came out, I think like before they were in school, it came out before
they were born. They were interested in this. And you know, there's still adults and they still
play it. And we really do have a pretty active Minecraft club. You just register online on our
website, racyandlibrary.info. Kids can come in and play Minecraft. Use your equipment and
use our equipment. Yep. Wow. You would have told me I was a kid. Of course, there was no video
games. But the library would be more than books and albums. I would say, we have crazy and newspapers.
That's all they had. Now look at it. Now you're playing Minecraft. I went through the movie theater
and Minecraft is playing there. And I see these kids coming into these outfits. I say,
what movie do you get to see? And the kid looked with Minecraft, of course. What's the matter with
you old man? But they were wearing some outfits, I guess, for the movie Minecraft. And I said,
oh, okay, you know, I mean, it's a really creative game where you build your own world in like eight
bit blocks. So it's kind of fun. I am still working on Super Mario Brothers, which I did complete
years ago and pong. I'm so fun. Well, I just remember when my kids were little, they were playing
on their tablets. And they made played hide and go seek. It was like a snow day. And they couldn't
really go outside because it was super cold. It's like one of those really frigid days. And they
just played hide and go seek in Minecraft. So it's okay. Now you do have to register for this,
right? Yes. This one's not just walk in and do it. You got to register it. Is there a limited
number of people that can do this? Yes, there's a limited number. What are the ages?
Um, we try to keep it school age. Okay. Um, just to keep it adults coming. Get out of the way
kid I'm playing. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. We don't want that. Okay. Computer classes now. Gmail,
what you need to know. Really, we need to know stuff about Gmail, huh? Yeah. I mean, there's still
people who who are newbies to Gmail. So we just try to make sure that they know what they need to
know. Especially if you get a new phone number, make sure you update your two factor authentication.
I don't do that. You don't do what? Well, I have a company Gmail account, but I don't put the phone
number on it. Look at you. When you're looking at, yeah, I'm like, what am I in any of these?
Is that what you're saying? Well, you should turn on to two factor authentication
on your accounts. It doesn't matter. Somebody had your phone number. Who cares? Everybody in the
world's got my phone number. Yeah. But like, for example, is somebody gets gets your password
then they have access to all your shames password. Yeah, but not if they change it on you.
So that's what we get a lot. We get a lot of people who has password have been compromised
and they're locked out of their account. We have people who come in and they're really just stock
because there's nothing we can do. Like, they got a new phone number. They lost their phone.
They got a new phone number. They went to a different carrier whatnot and they just got a new phone
number. And you're spooking me. And because they didn't change their phone number for their
authentication, they kind of stuck locked out of their email. Wow. So it's a big issue. So we
we like to inform people on how to use it and keep themselves safe online while doing so.
Every time I sign on to an old account, I always get this email and it says security just so you
know, somebody, if this was you ignore it and but you know, it's me. I still use them. I'll tell you
what what I use in the break. You're going to think you think I'm ancient using DVDs. What do you
what do you mean? I'll use. All right. So that's interesting. Gmail. What you need to know,
that's February 10th and March 10th 4 30 to 5 30. And again, registration is required. This
is mainly for adults. Kids already know it. It's the old adults that have no clue what's going on.
My father got through his entire life without ever going on a computer except for the early
computers. Maybe it is a company, but the most hard never bothered. Didn't have a cell phone.
Never bothered with any of that stuff. And he went through life up until 10 years ago with
this being happy. He used to not my mother. She was on Twitter. She had a phone. She had a computer.
She had she was on every program that could possibly up until the day she passed. She was 92.
And she was still checking her Twitter account in her bed the day before she died still looking
at it. I see I got this over here. So anyway, yeah. So some people are into it. Some people get
through life without it. So I tried to get through life now. Cutting the cord February 24th. I
hate. I can't believe we're talking about February ready. February 24th and March 24th 4 30 to 5 30
PM. What's cutting the cord? So cutting the cord is we talk about what it's like to get rid of
traditional cable more or less. Well, thanks. Like what do you what do you need to stream? What do you
need? You know, like can you stream for free? What are, you know, how do you get stuff over the air?
How do you, you know, just stuff like that? You know, and if you go to spectrum now,
they want to get rid of the boxes. So we had two and a half. We got rid of one. And the rest is
you stream the cable companies, what you're basically doing. But when you do that, you lose
everything you DV art. Everything is gone. All the shows you saved that you want to see again.
Old Twilight zone. But all that kind of stuff. The I have a couple of the parades of Fourth
of July parades. All gone because now you're saying you find that on YouTube. Like the old parades.
I wonder why would I want to search YouTube when I could just go right to my TV and just hit
the button and it's right there. You don't have YouTube on your TV. I do. I have YouTube on it,
but now I have the search for it. And it may be there. It may not be there. I don't know,
but I'm back at like four parades already on there. And I've got the whole parade on there.
So I can, but that stuff will all be gone. Then I have appearances when I would say
Channel 10 auction is still on there. Can't get that anywhere. So it's so, so one of ours,
we did get one and we kept the box. So we didn't cut the cord totally yet. Yeah, we've cut,
cut the cord a mile ago. Look at you just cutting cords, cutting the past, get rid of that.
I don't even know if my kids remember regular cable to be honest. It's fascinating.
I know I'm old, but now you're making me, you know, I feel like getting a walker to get out
of the studio here. And of course, let's talk about tech help because people and like me
always get lost. My wife is good on the tech help side. And I have friends you can do with me.
Just make it work. Yeah. So what's the talk about the tech help that they're seeing
public library? So tech help is in a service that we provide to our patrons. If you have a question
about a piece of tech that you own, maybe it's not quite working the way you thought it should be
working. You can bring it in and we can help you to understand your device a little bit better.
And we'll work with you one-on-one to help with that. You're always willing to help.
Now LinkedIn, now I'm on LinkedIn. The problem is when I want to do something on LinkedIn,
they say, well, you have to pay for this service. Now see how you get the free LinkedIn. Yes.
Everything I want to do on there, you got to pay for. And I don't want to do that.
Yeah. So I had to sign on one day because I was trying to contact somebody and I can only do
it to LinkedIn. So I signed on for it. So I see these things. It's nice to see familiar faces on
there. It's more, it's not like a professional Facebook. That's what it's what it's what it is.
Professional social media. Yeah. And but every time I want to, it says, 20 people have searched for
you. Oh, who is it? You got to pay to find out. So let's talk about your LinkedIn learning here.
So our LinkedIn learning. This is a service that we purchase with our share libraries
in Racine, Walworth, and Rock counties. You get access to thousands of courses with your library
card. They're all online and in demand. So you don't have to start them at a certain time and
finish them at a certain time. Kind of can go along as needed. But they have a ton of stuff. So it's
kind of like we do very basic computer classes. And these are, you can get more advanced classes
on here as well. And they are, it's, it's their catalog. You can get Microsoft Office
classes. You can get Windows 11 classes. If you need, if you want to learn how to use your Android
tab a little bit better, they have Android classes, all that kind of stuff is is on there. So
it can take you a lot deeper than we can in an hour and a half.
I like the old days. One of those people, I'm just lazy to learn. That's just it. I'm very
lazy to learn. We're talking to Melissa Donaldson, head of digital services and innovations.
You have to know all this stuff, don't you? See, I want to be the person with the library.
It just puts the books back on the shelf. I can figure that out. That's what we'll
do the card around those days. Well, you still have people to do it. Absolutely.
Yeah, people have to really still have books. Yeah, for now. No, we're still.
I think, I think physical books are ingrained in our humanity. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
My cousin just wrote a new book. It's coming out. The pre-order is out for it. I'll say the
picture of it on Judge Scalia. He wrote books on a lot of big famous people that did well on the
New York Times bestseller list. So he's my cousin. He just wrote me a note and showed me the
cover of the book. And I said, I can't wait to see it. Nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Melissa Donaldson joining us here, the head of digital services and innovation at your
recene public library. We got so much to talk about. You guys are just doing a lot of stuff.
Are these all your programs? Yes. Yeah, they came up with these. No, my whole team did. I have
a whole team of us. Yeah, a team. Yeah, I do. Whoa. Do we have a team? What happened to the
library where the old lit matron was the head of the library? She was like 90 years old,
checking out books and she was able to shoot a percentage of the card catalog and
you once you help you locate the book. That's all done, huh?
Well, we still have librarians. The old matrons were 90 years old. Yeah, no, we didn't. Yeah, no.
No, they're not 90 anymore. You know what I'm talking about? The old, they always see the old
movies of the libraries. Yeah, that's all that I remember the scene from Ghostbusters. Yeah,
the card catalog. You know, you still have you still have the card catalog thing though.
We have one that is our seed library. Yeah, the seeds in it. Yeah. Yeah. All the all that stuff
is yeah, there was a scene in the movie The Time Machine from 1960. So you're probably
wouldn't have seen it. And he goes future in time by 25,000 years. And it's the Eloy and
humans like us, but they're different. And he says, do you have books? And the guy said,
oh, yeah, we have a library and he goes to the library and he touches it and the book turns just
dust to powder and he moves his hand across the books just to powder because books are obsolete.
Nobody uses them anymore. You can just think and you get the knowledge in your head.
It's really scary to see what happened. He's all upset because there were no books anymore.
And he comes from your 1900. Oh man. And he sees what's happening to the world and HG Wells
wrote the book The Time Machine. Okay. Enough with that. Okay. Let's talk about audio podcast
studios. Now you actually have a studio that where people can record. Yeah, we do. We have an
audio podcasting studio that was built in honor of our former director, Jessica McPhale.
And people can book the studio for two hours at a time. All they have to do is call the
library at two six two six one nine two five six zero and we'll make an appointment for them.
Now what do they get? Like a memory stick with their stuff on it? No, you have to bring in your
device that you want to save it on. Okay. But if you put a memory stick card in there, it'll save
your stuff. Yeah, yeah. Yep. Yep. You bring it on there. Yeah. It's kind of neat. Yep. And we
have a Mac in there with logic pro on there, audacity, watch band. So you can pretty much do
whatever. It's not a very big space. So it's you can't fit a whole band in there. You can fit
you can fit like two people in there. Hey, bring your own background music and start singing. Yeah.
You never know where the next rock stars get to come from. The receding public library.
There we go. You have the miss, uh, is it Miss America there? Uh, Miss Wisconsin.
Miss Wisconsin. Yeah, I'm jumping the gun here. I think she's the works there. Yes. Oh, wow.
Will that still works? We'll look at you. The receding public library. Sprouting Miss
Wisconsin and the next Joan jet coming out of your library. Okay. Uh, we're talking about 3D
printing. Now you can actually use the 3D printer, right? Yep. Yep. So we do offer 3D printing
services. Again, we're, we're very, we're an introduction to 3D printing. Um, so we do have a
3D printing submission form on our website where you can upload a file to be printed.
We do give links on there like where you can find files like, um, printables,
thingiverse, um, that kind of, those kind of sites. Um, and people can get one item per week.
They must take like three hours or less. And if it's a bigger print and we take longer,
we would just shrink it down to, to meet our, our time limit. And you can't print anything suspicious.
We do not print weapons of any kind. Um, also not for sale work. So anything that,
something may have copyrighted. I got to see that we just hit on the second floor.
It is on the second floor in the, in the innovation lab in that, that enclosed room. Yep.
Yeah. I can take a look at that one. I'm there. I'm going to roll the time checking out the
ancient DVDs you have in blue rays, uh, getting the dust off them, the cobwebs, and I'm, uh,
renting those all taking those out all the time. I got to check out, see what that looks like.
Does it look like a regular printer? You know, like, um, it looks like a box. Oh yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You have seen that. Okay. All right. Now these are some additions.
Shake King gave us some additions on here to add using your time to promote her agenda.
Okay. That's good. Love shake. All right. Let's talk about some winter closures because
the bookmobile that need to come is kept through the snowstorms. Yeah. This, we have our winter
closures coming up so the bookmobile will be closed December 22nd through the second of January.
Oh, they're holidays. Yeah. For the holidays, um, in the school year schedule, we resume on January
3rd. And of course, weather permitting. Yes. Now, what does the bookmobile wind up at different,
um, streets? Or does it go to like shopping centers to sit there in the parking lot? Yes. Different
different locations all over summer shopping centers. Summer are on the street in various
parking lots for different businesses. I used to love in the bookmobile when I was a kid came
and we used to go through there and we said, Oh, look at the book I'm taking. Look at the book I'm
taking on the guy riding the things that, all right, kids get out already. We're in for 20 minutes.
And it was very small inside the one we had. It really had a squeeze through. Okay. But we used
to get online waiting for the bookmobile to come. I love the bookmobile when I was a kid.
Yeah. I don't know where you, I don't know when you came to receive, but, uh, you remember the,
okay, so you would know the boat house. Do you remember the boat house? Actually,
I came to Wisconsin. I came here and I came here. So we had, so golden books, uh, western
publisher had the boat house. It was on, on the north side and the book will be right across
the street. So we could always walk there from. I used to love the bookmobile. And they had the
little, um, on the spine of the book. If it was a skull and crossbones, you knew it was a,
a scary book and, you know, a mystery. They are little insignias on there. But we said,
oh, I got one here. It looked for the skull and crossbones. I don't know. We have read them.
We just kind of took them out and, you know, look at them a little bit. Yeah. So starting,
so starting a Saturday, December 20th, the holds will be available for pickup. Anything that comes
in during the, the closure will be ready for pickup at, um, the main library instead. So patrons
can pick up any holds directly at the library building beginning Monday, December 22nd.
And they'll be some closures. The course for Thanksgiving, November 27th and Black Friday of the
28th reopening on Saturday, the 29th and Christmas. It's closed December 24th. Christmas Eve in
December 25th and reopening on Friday, December 26th. See, we don't close here at the radio station
on holidays or open year round. No holiday closures at WRJN. New years, of course, Wednesday,
New Year's Eve. Now, this is both the, the building and the bookmobile we're talking about here.
Closed on the 31th and, uh, on New Year's Day, the January 1th, reopening on Friday, the
2th of 2026. Okay. It doesn't roll off my tongue like that. Uh, and during full library,
closures, social services, phone support, not available to keep an eye on the website,
which is recene library dot info slash hours for the full hours and any changes that's
recene library dot info slash hours. I was just talking with Melissa Donaldson from the
same public library and how they used to take out books when I was a kid, they used to shoot,
they used to take out the card that was actually in the book, put your little paper library card
next to it, take a picture with a giant flash bulb going to puff. And then the little film thing
moved and it was just, it was on film and they had to keep reviewing the film to see if you were
overdoing it. And some items got through the crack like a record album. I took out and some
mag as some newspapers. They never bothered me for them because it just went through the cracks.
And there wasn't any automatic thing that gets a hold of you was they had to send you something
through the mail. If they somebody skipped it on the film and didn't see you, you know,
they just missed it. You kept the item. Wow. So not that you were thief, just I forgot about it.
When you're a little kid, I mean, things don't, you know, mean, they think to you, all right,
got a fundraiser coming up a foundation fundraiser. Let's talk about this. Yeah, I'm very excited
about this though. It's our annual fundraiser for the Racine Public Library Foundation.
It's going to be held on December 11th at 326, 6th Street in Racine. The doors open at 5 will have
festive drinks, some more meal. They'll be gift shopping opportunities through our silent auction.
And we'll also have a 5050 raffle and just to come in and enjoy a cozy evening with library,
various library lovers. So we'll just, it'll be a bunch of us there who are on the board.
We are selling tickets for this event. The tickets are $25 and include entry and dinner.
Say $5 off your tickets. If you purchase your tickets before December 1st, you know, I was the
Racine Theatre Guild, those 5050 raffles. And a couple of years ago, I won two in a row.
And I said, I've been the third. Please don't let me win. Please don't let me win. I don't want to,
because I have to go a third time because the people who see these season ticket holders,
we all see the same show on the same day every time because we all go to that form.
And so they call my name off. And I said to them, I'm like, here, you go up ticket. No,
you take it. I'm not going to go up there again. It's going to be like the fixes in, but three
times in a row. Wow. Lucky. Yeah. But with that, but then I play Powerball. And I was nothing
for 30 years. So I mean, the tradeoff. I just, I got one of those $1 billion tickets for
mega millions. If I win the $1 billion, I'm going to go right to that scene library
and buy some DVDs for you. No, I already have it in my head, but I'm going to do it. I'm giving
most of it away. We can do it with a billion dollars. So like it was a constant, you made society,
gets a bunch, the church gets a bunch. You guys already on my list to get all my, my old blue rays
and stuff. I don't care if you dump them, whatever. But yeah, I give you money. You've been very good.
Library something good to me. All my life, no matter where I've been. I just love going to the
public libraries. And they were seeing public library. What a jewel. You just had a redone about
three during COVID. You had every done. We had right after COVID, right after COVID. We did
the lobby during COVID. And then after COVID, we did a major remodel of the second floor. So if
you haven't been to the library and since COVID, you should come down and check us out because it's
yeah, it's beautiful. It is really pretty. And you can see a great view of Lake Michigan.
I want to know when you go into the elevator, there are three buttons, one, two, and blank.
Yes, just actually go anywhere. Yeah, right. That's the sea. I saw the Twilight Zone episode.
Where one of the women went up to the floor and turns out the whole story is she's actually a
mannequin. And one mannequin a week is allowed to come out and go around and they're kept on the
secret floor. The mannequins. Yeah, we don't have it. So I think they put that in if my memory serves
me correctly, because I was a kid when they built that addition in the 80s. I was a kid. And
from what I've been told is that they were future planning. So if we ever wanted to add a third floor.
Yeah, right. I'm going to hit that button next time. I mean, go ahead. I don't think it
goes anything. I want to go to the secret floor. Well, the good stuff is it's like a nightclub
up there on that floor. All the party is going on. Yeah, I want to go to that floor because it's not
labeled. I love that. All right. So I might do that and film it and make a Twilight Zone episode
out of it. Well, thank you for coming in. It's anything else that I missed that again. We got
everything in. I think we got I think we got everything in. Okay, give the website for the
Racine Public Library. I have it on my phone. I just click on it because I want to check the
CV have items in there all the time comes right up. So once you give the website. So our website
is Racine Library dot info, INFO. Racine Library dot info. Okay. Everything you want to know
about the Racine Library. And if they don't have it, you guys have that thing we can go to all the
libraries in Southeast Wisconsin and have some guys schlep out there and go pick it up and bring
it back for you. Believe it or not, it doesn't take that long. I mean, the guy who ever does,
it's really good at it. We have delivery service who brings materials from all over. So we are,
we share systems between Kenosha, law worth Racine and rock counties. So we have you can get books
from all over the place. I picture the guy looking at the thing seeing a couple of DVDs. Oh,
this guy again. Well, thank you very much. You're very welcome. Thank you for having me.
And next month, Jay King will be in here. We're going to have her in here. And she's going to talk
more about all this stuff coming up for the new year as well. Well, thank you very good. And I
want to thank you. I screwed up the DQ is supposed to be in here last week. And I screwed up.
And you were very gracious and said, Oh, this works out better. And I know behind the scenes,
I don't mix that again. He missed it again. No, I don't know. Okay. Well, thank you very much, Melissa.
You're very welcome. Have a good day. You do Melissa Donaldson head of digital services and
innovation at the Racine Public Library. I got to check out that 3D printer. I'm going to see
what that's all about. And I will.