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Long-Awaited Library Recruits Given Orientation, Mandate to Make Impact

By DAN ROSENBLUM
Posted 9/28/15

Midway through a day-long orientation last week in a conference room at the Queens Borough Public Library’s Central branch in Jamaica, a trio of recently hired Librarians spoke about the misconceptions raised by people who didn’t understand the library’s role in the Internet era.

Jeremy Zoref, 30, said he graduated from library school two years ago and had been working at a records center for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He said he loves not only the institutional atmosphere, but the opportunity to share his knowledge. “I find the library is a great place to disseminate my random, random fields of information to people who want it,” he said, joking that his new colleagues would be “human Googles.”

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