1 10 1 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/32209/archive/files/993b5f7a2119fd736ab2b3bdf27623bf.pdf?Expires=1773878400&Signature=OxLJBr5E1wpbI3xXOiTc-a2YMLHtCwi9hDdRkFH-rOH7G409yXhX2nvKWKqMP9asAPhMUm1ybc0dOhgLlbljED87P%7ExJxvonZsVUBff4GeXUN2357brstqSSMMOSEc0LezaNj18PA%7EmhUXBNx4JIbMQbOltMjYFF%7E6cvdhTchNrdtao5YRjjSte2gDv-MQ8IIM7zPSYEEHduX9R4-tYwZ4ccz2OLWe7rQ5vVzGYXXmk-uYCwHsH9QwWawHFSP-uUUHZTXqE6il2V-E0pzDsKqae%7E1BljlCaYc7oU%7EsPHi1wH06T4a4WLfhr7XjgtgPgriR9OK8E9TXYEoddU%7EFEL6Q__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM f4136e540aa3dc09afb5619444d5e435 PDF Text Text Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth Postcards from Falmouth Oral History Transcript Recorded: September 22, 2021 Oral Historian: Linda Collins Interviewer: Anna Lee Topic: Falmouth Public Library Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital Commonwealth online collection. 00:00 [Music] 00:44 yeah so the um the library obviously the 00:47 Main Library is a real anchor of Main #falmouthpubliclibrary Gunning_Village_Bldg_0258 through 0288 & Hunt_Village_Bldg_009 through 012 00:49 Street and the branches have been around 00:51 long enough to be these recognizable 00:53 community centers but it wasn't always 00:56 that way so can you give me a walk 00:58 through of the history of how that came 01:00 to be 01:01 happy to 01:02 there was a librarian in 1958 01:07 whose quote I use often she said library 01:11 Falmouth is a library-minded town and it 01:13 was true in 1958 it's true today 01:17 and it was certainly true um when the 01:19 library was being 01:21 um 1 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 01:22 put together in the 1800s 01:24 there was a subscription-based library 01:27 and goes back to the 1700s 01:31 but the main move to get a free public 01:33 library was in the 01:35 1800s the 01:38 Falmouth Free Public Library was 01:40 established at town meeting in 01:43 1891 um with an appropriation of 50 01:46 dollars a year 01:48 but the the real momentum behind it was 01:52 Esther 01:53 Elizabeth Beebe who died in 01:56 1889 and left us three thousand dollars 02:00 which was a substantial amount of money 02:02 at that time 02:04 to establish a library 02:06 the um 02:08 cost of the library was 35 000 02:11 and there was an interesting letter to 02:13 the editor 02:14 by somebody who signed it um “Heavy 02:17 Taxpayer” and he charged the the 02:21 library trustees with building a Taj 02:24 Mahal 02:25 because they were concerned about it 02:27 being a fireproof building so the #1891 #estherbeebe #beebe #1889 2 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 02:29 construction was 02:31 iron and concrete 02:33 and they had Vermont green slate for a 02:37 roof which we still enjoy today 02:39 and the base is local granite 02:43 so the the 02:45 the library was well built and the main 02:48 part of the library we still enjoy 02:50 the 1901 library was designed for 02:52 Falmouth of 1901 which had 02:55 about 900 homes 02:57 and the collection was about 5 000 books 03:01 so it quickly 03:02 it quickly got to be 03:04 a bit small 03:06 in the 1920s they considered building a 03:09 mezzanine to hold more more books and if 03:12 you go into the old part of the building 03:14 look up and see you would have to be 03:17 pretty short uh to make use of a 03:20 mezzanine in that area so although the 03:22 plans were drawn I’m I’m pretty 03:23 grateful that that 03:24 that they didn't follow through with 03:26 that plan 03:28 the main 03:30 addition to the library the first #1901 3 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 03:32 addition to the library happened in 1967 03:36 when they built wings on either side of 03:38 the initial building and that added 03:40 another seven thousand square feet to 03:43 the building 03:44 in 1978 03:46 uh a 03:48 addition was added to the right which is 03:50 the current Adult Collections room and 03:52 that 03:53 uh added another 15 000 square feet 03:57 and then the most recent addition in 2007 04:00 added the wing on the left side which is 04:02 the Reference room and the meeting rooms 04:05 to bring it to the current um 40 000 04:08 square feet so when is the next addition 04:11 not going to happen we are 04:13 a steady state library for um 04:16 zero-based growth for every book that 04:18 comes in um 04:20 we we get rid of one and 04:24 that's not a bad thing uh it's a good 04:26 thing to um 04:29 to be good stewards of the collection 04:31 and keep the collection fresh and 04:33 current 04:34 um 4 #1967 #2007 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 04:37 that's the history of the main library I 04:38 should jump backwards and talk a little 04:40 bit about the branches because the 04:42 branches are interesting the North 04:44 Falmouth Branch 04:45 is actually older than the main library 04:49 that was established 04:50 in 04:51 1879 it was a room in the North Falmouth #northfalmouthlibrary #1879 #northfalmouthcongregationalchurch Gunning_North_Bldg_1363 through 1368 & Hunt_North_Bldg_368 & 369 04:54 Congregational Church 04:56 and 04:57 in 1955 and looking for more room they 05:00 moved across the street to the old fire 05:03 station it's the little white building 05:05 that currently is used by the North 05:07 Falmouth Village 05:08 Association and 05:11 they were there for 05:12 10 years and then they moved to their 05:14 current location in Nye Park 05:18 and that's an interesting story the 05:20 building they're in 05:21 was an old barracks building that came 05:24 from the from um #1955 #northfalmouthvillageassociation #nyepark 5 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 05:27 from the base and it was moved across 05:30 land 05:31 it took five days to get it to Nye Park 05:34 uh it they had some heavy rains it got 05:37 stuck in the mud 05:39 an axle broke 05:41 they had to take a day off because it 05:42 was Sunday and they needed a day of rest 05:44 so 05:45 after five days of of dragging this poor 05:47 building across they set it up on blocks 05:50 in the parking lot and there it sat 05:52 waiting for um town meeting to vote for 05:55 the money to um establish it as a 05:58 community center not a library in Nye 06:01 Park and 06:03 one of the stipulations was that there 06:06 would always be room in the in the 06:08 basement for storage of Park Department 06:11 uh tools 06:12 and I haven't been in the basement in a 06:14 long time but the last time I was there 06:16 there was still tools belonging to the 06:18 Parks Department in the basement 06:21 so finally it was it was turned over to 06:24 the library um 06:26 I think it was in 6 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 06:27 1960 a pardon me for having my 06:30 notes but when I get nervous I would 06:32 need notes to tell you what my name is 06:35 in 1964 06:37 the building was transferred to the 06:39 Trustees of the public library and it 06:41 became 06:42 a public library and at that same 06:45 location still is 06:46 today the East Falmouth Library is not #eastfalmouthlibrary 06:49 as old it was established in 1935 in a #1935 06:52 classroom in the 06:54 East Falmouth Elementary School #eastfalmouthelementaryschool 06:57 and in 1943 #1943 07:01 they needed that space 07:02 for kindergarten and so the library was 07:05 closed and it remained closed until 07:08 1958 when the school was able to give 07:11 them space again 07:13 but it was clear that the East Falmouth 07:15 Library needed more room and so in 07:17 1971 07:19 the um town purchased the Vidal House 07:22 across from or by Mill Pond next to 07:25 Smitty's and 07:27 that's where the library is today well 07:30 that's really fascinating the the note #1964 #1958 #1971 #millpond 7 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 07:32 especially about North Falmouth Library 07:34 that is not the origin I would have 07:35 expected for that building 07:38 and um what you said about 07:40 building uh the idea of building a Taj 07:42 Mahal is very interesting because 07:44 libraries obviously become very heavily 07:46 identified with the buildings they 07:48 inhabit but at the same time they're an 07:49 institution that's beyond a building 07:51 that has to 07:52 think about how to serve the public 07:55 so if 07:57 you could tell me a little bit about the 07:59 library's intentions in the community 08:01 especially things that you think other 08:02 people may not necessarily be aware of 08:04 if they’re just casual patrons 08:07 well it's it's interesting 08:10 the services library services are 08:11 changing 08:12 and um 08:14 again the need for space 08:17 is 08:17 the need for a library is is always 08:20 going to be there 08:22 it's just that the use of the existing 8 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 08:24 space will change 08:26 or be reconfigured to meet the changing 08:28 needs of the community and as as we're 08:31 all aware 08:32 a lot of the collections are becoming 08:34 digitized our current collection of DVDs 08:38 will slowly uh be phased out as as 08:42 we receive more of our um DVD watching 08:45 via video streaming we're buying a lot 08:47 of ebooks people are reading books 08:49 electronically the e-audiobooks it's a 08:52 big space grab in the library but new 08:56 cars are not even being equipped with CD 08:58 players so people are getting their 09:01 audio books through streaming and and 09:03 downloading them to their phones 09:05 I don't want to scare people we will 09:07 always have books we will always meet 09:08 the needs of the community and it's 09:10 interesting because we're a tourist 09:13 community and sometimes 09:16 our summer homes are not kept up 09:17 technology wise as 09:19 as as much as our main home so it's 09:23 important that we 09:24 we have it we still have a collection of 09:27 VHS tapes 9 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 09:29 they have got to be phased out there are 09:30 just a few people who are still using 09:32 VHS but 09:34 we'll hang in there as long as as there 09:36 is a need for it 09:39 the note about the rental homes is very 09:41 interesting because I can imagine people 09:43 um 09:44 there's a divide definitely between 09:45 people who interact with the libraries 09:47 locals and people who come back every 09:48 year as vacationers 09:51 and I would imagine they come back 09:52 expecting what they have seen for the 09:55 past five ten years maybe even their 09:57 whole childhoods 09:59 do you think that there's a difference 10:01 in the way the library serves 10:02 vacationers as opposed to locals in 10:04 terms of programming materials anything 10:06 like that well we certainly direct our 10:09 programming um which is 10:12 financed by 10:13 well the programs are financed by the 10:15 Friends of the Library and the Trustees 10:19 but we certainly 10:20 our main constituents are our tax-paying 10 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 10:24 residents of Falmouth but we we have a 10:26 real commitment to the tourists and we 10:28 do 10:29 allow borrowing and welcome them to the 10:32 library so 10:33 so 10:35 and and go out of our way to provide the 10:37 services that they need I was 10:39 talking with Jill Erickson and she was 10:42 telling she was showing me a letter from 10:44 some visitors from England who had 10:46 uh marveled over the the quilt that 10:48 hangs in the Reference Room and the 10:51 reference librarians gave them all kinds 10:53 of information about the quilt and even 10:55 found a poster an old poster of the 10:58 quilt which they took home and framed 11:00 and sent a photo back to us of of our 11:02 Falmouth quilts hanging on the wall in 11:04 their home in England so um 11:07 we always we meet the needs of the of 11:10 the public and 11:11 many times go above and beyond those 11:13 needs 11:15 the um speaking of the quilt that's very 11:17 interesting because 11:20 perhaps for some people it might fade #jillerickson 11 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 11:21 into the background but the library 11:23 isn't just a home for 11:25 the materials that you would expect 11:26 there's also there's art there's other 11:29 things that are 11:30 in the collections that help to 11:33 preserve a picture of Falmouth as a 11:35 community not just 11:37 not just those informational materials 11:40 it's it's interesting because um 11:44 I found a quote from one of the original 11:46 Trustees of the library Reverend Henry 11:49 Smythe and he I’m going to have to read 11:50 this because I don't want to mix it up 11:53 he um said that the library should 11:55 gather and store materials related to 11:57 the history of the town and he talked 12:00 about old letters logbooks stories and 12:02 traditions 12:03 and he said specifically things that 12:05 have never been written down but which 12:08 are most important material for 12:09 understanding the town's life this is by 12:12 far the most valuable work a library can 12:14 do for a town 12:15 so yes our mission is beyond 12:19 current reading of fiction and that it 12 #henryherbertsmythe �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 12:20 is to preserve the history of the town 12:23 and this project they will that we're 12:25 working on Postcards from Falmouth 12:27 certainly meets um the desires of the 12:31 initial trustee who who would 12:34 greatly approve of what we're doing I’m 12:36 sure I would think so even though in the 12:39 way that um the idea of what the library 12:42 should be has changed there are some 12:44 things that um 12:45 that definitely haven't they still hold 12:47 strong 12:48 and 12:51 in terms of that obviously we've gone 12:52 through a period of a lot of upheaval in 12:55 the last couple of years or so so if you 12:57 could tell me a little bit about the 12:58 adaptations the library has had to make 13:00 to 13:01 things that might have otherwise been 13:03 considered iron-clad in order to deal 13:05 with the pandemic 13:06 oh during the pandemic 13:08 that that was a very interesting time 13:11 for us we had to rethink how we provided 13:15 library services 13:17 without people coming in the building #postcardsfromfalmouth #pandemic 13 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 13:19 we did a lot of home delivery we did 13:22 outside delivery of materials 13:25 people asked for they missed the 13:28 browsing so we loaded up book trucks and 13:30 brought books outside for people to 13:32 browse we 13:34 listened to the community to see what 13:36 they needed and what we could do to meet 13:39 those needs 13:40 one thing people missed was the 13:41 computers 13:43 and and 13:45 internet connectivity so we bought hotspots 13:48 that people could borrow we bought 13:50 Chromebooks that they could take home 13:52 um 13:54 we had to 13:55 be on our feet thinking fast and and 13:59 staying in touch with other CLAMS 14:00 libraries across the Cape 14:02 to get good ideas libraries are great 14:05 about sharing 14:07 and meeting the needs of everyone in 14:09 that way 14:10 we were lucky that 14:13 that we had already started down the 14:15 digitization path so we had a lot of 14 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 14:17 ebooks available for people 14:22 research that people would normally do 14:24 at the library is a lot more online and 14:26 I’m not talking about 14:28 Google 14:29 we had a wonderful digitization project 14:32 in 2012 using CPC funds #cpc (Community Preservation Committee) 14:36 and we digitized the Falmouth Enterprise #falmouthenterprise 14:38 from January 14:40 of 1896 through 14:43 December of 1962 we 14:46 had to stop in 62 because there was a 14:49 requirement that um only historic 14:52 records could be 14:54 digitized so it had to be from 2012 when 14:57 we did the project back 50 years 15:00 we're looking we're working with the 15:01 Boston Public Library to complete that 15:03 digitization project 15:05 and the the Falmouth Enterprise is such 15:08 a wealth of information about the town 15:11 this is one of the the best things we 15:13 did it really is it's um 15:16 there's so much research so much you can 15:18 learn about that one thing I learned in 15:20 looking at the Falmouth Enterprise was 15:22 that there was a a crime that took place 15 #bostonpubliclibrary �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 15:25 in the library in December of 1943 15:29 the librarians came in to find that the 15:31 library had been broken into 15:33 and a set of historic stamps had been 15:36 stolen 15:37 and he'd come in through the basement 15:40 window and taken the displays off the 15:42 wall 15:44 and one of the librarians had remembered 15:46 a gentleman in army fatigue studying the 15:49 stamps the week before 15:51 and so she was able to give a 15:53 description of him to the police 15:55 and the police went to the base and 15:58 talked to the librarian there and she 16:00 said oh yes 16:01 a 16:02 gentleman had borrowed 16:04 the six books they had on the value of 16:06 stamps 16:08 prior to our break-in so they 16:11 they went and uh 16:13 arrested him 16:14 and he had 16:16 packaged the stamps up in a box and 16:18 buried them in his mother's garden in 16:20 Framingham 16 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 16:22 and they were retrieved 16:24 unharmed but the beautiful frames they 16:27 were in um 16:28 apparently he thought this would 16:30 identify the stamps with Falmouth so he 16:32 stopped on the Bourne Bridge and threw 16:34 them in the Canal 16:35 so those were not recovered but it's 16:38 stories like these that um that you 16:40 wouldn't know from uh 16:42 it would be too hard to go back through 16:44 microfilm and and learn about it I’ve 16:47 looked uh 16:48 that's not the end of the stamp story 16:50 I’m trying to figure out what happened 16:52 to the stamps and I’ve talked to the 16:53 Historical Society and 16:55 talked to people in the library but that 16:58 timeframe 1943 is just far enough back 17:01 that there isn't 17:02 uh memory of the event so I’m I haven't 17:06 given up though I’m still going to keep 17:07 looking to try and find the end of that 17:09 story 17:10 that is a really interesting little saga 17:13 maybe a sign or a I hate to say a 17:15 symptom but when you #falmouthhistoricalsociety 17 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 17:17 have a an institution that's really 17:19 supposed to be a clearinghouse and a 17:21 place for as many people from the public 17:23 to come and be served and to gather 17:25 strange things happen yes for sure 17:28 and um 17:30 thinking of the the steps that the 17:32 library has taken to adapt to the 17:33 pandemic 17:34 do you 17:35 see any of those things carrying forward 17:38 has the patron response been to to hang 17:41 on to these things or they want to go 17:42 back to the way things were 17:44 absolutely library services are forever 17:47 morphing um we would never step 17:49 backwards and um library home delivery 17:53 is really uh important we have a a 17:56 homebound librarian who 18:00 people can register with and she will 18:02 deliver books to them and 18:04 she develops a real personal 18:05 relationship with the people that she 18:07 serves and she knows what books they 18:08 like she makes recommendations and 18:12 that's something that's certainly 18:14 ongoing it happened before the pandemic 18 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 18:16 but during the pandemic we expanded it a 18:19 bit I would 18:22 on several occasions I would stop at 18:24 people's homes with the instruction to 18:26 put the books underneath the back cover 18:28 of the pickup truck in the driveway or 18:31 or put the the bag of books in the 18:33 mailbox after the mail delivery that 18:35 came at four o'clock so it was kind of 18:37 uh kind of fun making sure that people 18:39 still had the reading material that they 18:42 desired 18:43 uh at that time of course we've always 18:46 done a phone-in reference service um ask 18:49 a librarian so a lot of the services 18:52 were there we just needed to ramp them 18:54 up a little bit 18:57 I would imagine that that kind of thing 18:59 really puts you up close and personal 19:00 with the the texture of people's lives 19:02 because people bring strange questions 19:04 to the library 19:06 they do 19:07 they do 19:09 that that would be a better question for 19:11 a reference librarian I know Jill has 19:13 her favorite questions 19 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 19:15 and um 19:18 they're not interesting stories are not 19:20 coming to my mind right now 19:23 I would like to talk about the um the 19:25 Postcards though the 19:27 Postcards from Falmouth is a 19:31 a grant funded project 19:33 and 19:34 why postcards and Falmouth and this is 19:37 an interesting story 19:41 some years ago 19:42 my husband and I were having 19:44 dinner at the Quarterdeck and a woman 19:47 that we knew 19:49 from the Falmouth Road Race and the 19:51 Falmouth Mile enough to say hello to 19:52 Doris Beatty was seated next to us so we 19:55 said hello she was 19:56 dining with a a friend 19:59 and the next night 20:00 we were at the Flying Bridge for dinner #quarterdeck #falmouthroadrace #flyingbridge Gunning_Village_Bldg_0377 through 0383 20:03 while we were having dinner two nights 20:04 in a row I don't know that's enough 20:06 that's a whole other story but seated 20:09 next to us was Doris Beatty and her friend 20:11 and so we teased them that they 20 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 20:14 were following us and we got talking 20:16 with them and um her friend Mr. Hunt 20:19 Robert Hunt 20:20 told me that he had been stationed here 20:23 during the war and had started a 20:25 collection of postcards about Falmouth 20:28 and would we be interested in having 20:29 them and I said absolutely so he came 20:32 with 600 postcards and we scanned them 20:35 and put them up on our our website and 20:38 they were we're really lucky in Falmouth 20:40 because um as a tourist town there are a 20:43 lot of postcards about Falmouth if 20:45 you're not a tourist community you might 20:47 have a handful of postcards but Falmouth 20:50 has lots as we found out 20:53 Mr. Gunning came in the library after 20:55 seeing the 20:57 Hunt collection and said that his mother 20:59 Anita Gunning had collected postcards 21:01 for years and would we be interested in 21:03 hers he brought in 1800 postcards 21:07 from about Falmouth so with volunteers 21:10 and staff we scanned the front and back 21:13 of those 21:14 postcards and then most recently a 21:17 gentleman in Falmouth Gareth Jennings #robertchunt 21 #anitagunning #garethjennings �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 21:20 brought in his collection and so we 21:22 scanned them so we have 21:25 well over 3000 postcards of Falmouth 21:28 scanned and you you might think there'd 21:29 be a lot of duplication yes there is 21:31 some 21:32 but um there are different time frames 21:34 the different collections of different 21:36 time frames so we're constantly finding 21:38 new postcards 21:40 and postcards you know what what do we 21:41 do with them well it's been really 21:43 interesting we had a creative writing 21:45 program where people chose a postcard 21:48 and wrote a story about it 21:50 um 21:51 this project Postcards from Falmouth to 21:54 to look at postcard locations across the 21:57 town and 21:58 film people's memory of that location 22:02 I had an interesting question from a 22:04 patron he was looking through our 22:06 postcards and came across one 22:09 where someone had written on the front 22:11 of the card “why so quiet,” signed Marie 22:15 and this this was the first batch that 22:17 we had scanned and we hadn't done the 22 Hunt_Village_Bch_093 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 22:19 front and back just the front and he 22:21 wondered if there was any more to this 22:22 question on the back of the card 22:25 so I looked and on the back of the card 22:26 was just the address and the postcard 22:29 had been sent to 22:31 a Julia Quiring in Boston so I looked 22:34 her up to see what I could find out and 22:36 she was a most interesting woman 22:37 fascinating she was a Boston Brahmin a 22:40 hat designer 22:42 her brother was an artist who did 22:44 frescoes in the theaters in in Boston 22:48 and she lived to be 108 which so 22:51 impressed me 22:52 I did find two other postcards addressed 22:55 not to her but to her sister Anna so 22:58 every time we get a new collection I go 22:59 through to see if there are any more 23:01 postcards written to this family but I 23:03 think 23:03 I think that's probably all we've heard 23:05 from the Quirings 23:07 I think that's a really a great example 23:09 of the idea of what we're trying to do 23:11 with the project being to use these 23:13 ephemera to capture moments #juliaquiring 23 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 23:16 in history and in people's memories 23:18 because that's where the really 23:19 interesting particulars are and it's 23:22 also a great visual history of the town 23:25 I was so impressed with the postcards of 23:28 the train stations in North Falmouth 23:31 when when the main uh 23:33 means of transport to Falmouth was 23:35 trains and there it was a huge huge uh 23:38 depot in North Falmouth you wouldn't 23:40 think there'd be room for it but I think 23:42 it was mostly in the area where the 23:44 parking is for the uh for the ferries 23:46 now but quite fascinating 23:49 and nowadays it's kind of an element of 23:50 the landscape that's either been 23:52 effaced totally or really pushed into the 23:54 background yeah so having that record is 23:57 it's valuable but also like you said it 23:59 really provokes people's curiosity and 24:01 leads them down interesting paths yeah 24:04 and to that point as we wrap up is there 24:06 anything that you want to 24:08 say to people about the library 24:10 yes I always am happy to talk about the 24:12 library 24:14 the library appropriation is only 1.5 Hunt_North_Bldg_403 & 404 24 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 24:18 percent of the town budget and it is um 24:22 a real deal for the for the residents of 24:25 Falmouth the um 24:28 there is so much to offer at the main 24:30 library the East Branch the North Branch 24:33 but also the West Falmouth Library and 24:35 the Woods Hole Library all open to the 24:38 public all offering different programs 24:40 and services there’s truly 24:42 something for everyone at the Falmouth 24:45 Public Library 24:47 and our our our two private libraries 24:49 that are still open to the public 24:52 well that's wonderful thank you for 24:53 coming thank you for having me 24:55 [Music] 25 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all 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