From Kew Gardens Hills to Bay Shore

We didn’t have these at my last library!

Touro libraries are not all the same. Are we one big family? Yes! Work very well together across the miles? Yes! Provide services to students and staff? Yes, again! However, there are still some pretty big differences between the locations. This is something I have a new perspective on after moving from librarian at the Lander College for Men to become Chief Librarian at the Bay Shore Campus in Fall 2015.

Staff Profile: Yeshaya Metal

Yeshaya Metal (L) with Dr. David Levy at the Winter 2016 Library Staff Meeting

Where were you born?

Poland

Where else have you lived?

The Bronx, Connecticut, England, NJ, Brooklyn

What languages do you speak?

English, Yiddish, Hebrew

Books On The Move

Empty books shelves—but not for long!

Over the summer we did a total library book “shift” at the library for the Lander College for Men.

You might ask: “Why would you do that?”

Or “Wasn’t that a lot of physical work?”  (Yes, it was.)

Or “How many books did you move?” (Over 15,000 books.)

So here is the story of why…