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Sarah Allen's avatar

Yep, this IS the best interview you've done. I love this so much, and I feel like as a novelist trying to manage social media essentially as an independent creator, Grayson's ideas and philosophy about this is SO helpful and refreshing.

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Rachel Karten's avatar

agree! loved his pov.

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Heather G.'s avatar

So much love to the Columbus Library! If you're an Ohioan, reach out to Gov. Dewine to support them right now (and all Ohio libraries) to protect free and open access to information. Details on their social account (of course) and sharing here: https://www.columbuslibrary.org/keep-the-plf/

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Rachel Karten's avatar

YES!

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Tina Boetto's avatar

Huge library lover and I loved this - what incredible work Grayson is doing! Immediate follow. And shoutout to San Francisco Public Library's IG account, highly recommend :)

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Rachel Karten's avatar

ooh! i will have to check it out!

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J. Faye D'Avanza's avatar

As a former community engagement librarian who struggled to manage social media and all the other hats librarians wear, I’m in awe of the way that Grayson describes the library and its value to society. We need more people like him telling these stories! Thank you for such an impactful interview. It made my morning!

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Rachel Karten's avatar

completely agree!!

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Kaitlyn Pacheco's avatar

shoutout the columbus library! an amazing local library system made even better by wonderful folks like grayson!

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Lizza Gebilagin's avatar

I love that Grayson’s approach is the antithesis of my LinkedIn feed, which is all about how AI can help us all create more content, faster. Team Grayson 🙌🏾

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Linnea Sheldon's avatar

I don't need to tell you that your social media is amazing (it's incredible!). You have a huge talent for this, and what you are doing for libraries in general is amazing, thank you! I also want to thank you for pointing out that this is your job and you can focus solely on it, so when the people I work with ask me why we can't do that I can point to all the other responsibilities I have as a communications manager that would make it impossible, even if I had this kind of talent. Fund us and staff us and see what we can do library world!!!!

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Esra Erol's avatar

I love, love, LOVE Library Social.

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Rachel Karten's avatar

the best

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Vanessa Anderson's avatar

SOB!!! <3

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Rachel Karten's avatar

🥹🥹🥹

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Katie Valtcheva's avatar

I always stop scrolling to watch any library's TikTok, and this perfectly explains why!

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Lucy McIntire's avatar

Love everything about this!

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Rachel Karten's avatar

💓

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Shannon Ratliff's avatar

Incredible interview! I'll be revisiting this one often.

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Brittany Healy's avatar

I got goosebumps reading this. This was so compelling and impactful.

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Rachel Karten's avatar

❤️❤️❤️

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Lacey's avatar

Wow. Amazing interview - so impressed by Grayson!

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Rachel Karten's avatar

same!!

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Nora's avatar

I love this so much

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Rachel Karten's avatar

so good. i say it a lot, but this is one of my favorite interviews i've done!

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Lilipod's avatar

My favorite interview I've ever read on Substack. Like, ever, ever. Thanks for this 🖤

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