A quiet library turned into a buzzing café of curiosity—and it changed how students read. We sit down with Olean High School librarian Brianna Howard to unpack the “book tasting” that quadrupled circulation in a month, the power of visible mentorship, and the small choices that make reading feel irresistible instead of required. Starting as a social studies teacher and now in her second year as librarian, Brianna blends data, design, and heart to build a space where students explore freely. She walks us through eight high-interest genres, the simple menu system that invites quick sampling, and the classroom partnerships that keep momentum going.
We zoom out to the bigger literacy picture: why foundational reading skills and digital literacy matter in an information-saturated world, and how students learn to evaluate sources, navigate online feeds, and make sense of complex media. Brianna shares how a countywide network of school librarians swaps ideas each quarter, how a neighboring district sparked the tasting concept, and why adapting ideas to your own community is the secret to success. Along the way, we talk genre surprises, Stephen King devotees, and the staff reading wall that turns hallway chats into book recommendations students actually follow.
Mentors matter. When teachers and families talk about what they’re reading—paperbacks, audiobooks, memoirs like Matthew McConaughey’s Greenlights—students see reading as a living habit. Brianna offers a timely book recommendation, Mel Robbins’s Let Them Theory, and explains how it reshaped her approach to daily interactions: suggest and support, then let readers choose. We close with a look ahead at new collaborations, family engagement ideas, and the ongoing goal: more students finding books they didn’t expect to love. If you care about school libraries, student choice, and practical literacy strategies you can use tomorrow, this one’s for you. Subscribe, share with a colleague, and leave a quick review telling us the last book you couldn’t put down.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:04):
So, welcome everybody to our first episode
of the Husky Huddle for theschool year.
We are so excited to get this upand running again.
And I can't wait to interviewlots of people in Oleanne City
School District and ask themabout everything that they're
(00:24):
doing and share that witheveryone out there who really
wants to learn about ourdistrict and things that we do
here.
So, our very, very first podcastguest is Brianna Howard, who is
our esteemed librarian here atthe high school.
And we are just going to have agreat conversation about
(00:47):
literacy and libraries and allthose awesome things.
And so I'm going to begin byasking Brianna to tell us a
little bit about herself and whyand how she got to Oleanne High
School here with us.
SPEAKER_01 (01:04):
Yes, so I am Brianna Howard, and um I started my
career with Olean actually as aseventh-grade social studies
teacher.
And I did that for a few yearsand I loved it.
Um, and I got my master's degreein library science.
And it just so happened the yearI graduated that a position came
open here at the high school.
(01:24):
So it worked out great.
And um, so I've been in thisposition now.
This is my second year, and it'sbeen just so much fun.
It's a delight to get to meld mylove of history when I have
those history nerds in thelibrary and just general
literacy because I do love toread.
So that's a great, I mean, it'sjust fantastic.
SPEAKER_00 (01:47):
Well, that's wonderful, and it's a beautiful
space up there.
So I love going in the libraryand going in all libraries, but
particularly autos.
Our library is just an awesomespace for sure.
It's great, it supports literacyand funny enough.
September uh was NationalLiteracy Month, and we just
(02:07):
celebrated InternationalLiteracy Day.
So, do you have any opinionabout why these literacy
celebrations are important forour district and our students?
And how do you celebrate thesethings?
SPEAKER_01 (02:21):
Yeah, I mean, I think literacy is really the
cornerstone of everything we dowith education.
And it's just so important toget a good strong foundation
there before we try to build onto all these extra things.
And with all of the informationthat people are getting
inundated with every day, allthe time, it's so important to
(02:44):
know how to sift through it.
And there's literacy skills thatgo beyond just reading, but like
digital literacy and every otherpiece of that.
And so I'm really proud of ourdistrict in that we we start
from elementary.
The elementary schools havethese awesome programs where
they bring in um families, theyhave reading nights, they have
(03:05):
all this fun stuff, and then wecontinue that.
And Karen Fox does a great jobat the middle school.
She has an awesome program withthe kids.
And uh so I just hope tocontinue that with the high
school.
So up here this month, we'vedone a lot with the um,
especially with the youngergrades, and we've done like book
(03:26):
tastings, trying to get studentsinterested in doing independent
reading.
And the English teachers havebeen super on board, and it's
been really great to see thatour numbers have increased
dramatically from years past.
Um, so my most recent numbersnow compared to last year, where
(03:46):
I had about, you know, like lessthan 100 checkouts, we'll just
say.
This year we have as of todayover 450.
unknown (03:55):
Wow.
SPEAKER_01 (03:56):
So the numbers just keep skyrocketing, and that's
great.
SPEAKER_00 (03:59):
Only a month.
Yes, yeah, yeah.
And that's all supporting thateffort.
So thank you.
That's great.
All right, so um, we heard aboutthe Olean High School book
tasting event, and that's led tothis increase in the checkouts.
(04:21):
So tell us more about this eventand why do you think it was so
successful?
SPEAKER_01 (04:27):
Yeah, so basically what I did is I looked at data
from past years and I figuredout which genres students are
most likely to check out.
And then I so I I pulled out, Ithink I had eight total, and
their ones uh it was a kind of ahealthy mixture.
Of course, you've got yourromance in there.
(04:48):
Um, graphic novels are verypopular right now, so that that
was one.
Um, but we've also got you know,fantasy, we have sports, um also
very popular right now is likehorror or thriller type of
books.
Not really my jam, but I know alot of kids really like them.
SPEAKER_00 (05:06):
Oh, Brian and I share our similar taste in the
horror zone.
Yeah, I've read every singleStephen King.
SPEAKER_01 (05:15):
Have you?
Yes.
Well, then you could certainlytalk to some students about some
Stephen King because we havesome serious Stephen King fans
in this building.
Yes.
SPEAKER_00 (05:24):
One day I want to go to Maine, and I don't want to
sidetrack too much, but he alsohas a Corgi.
So I feel like if I bring myCorgi and he's out with his
Corgi, those corgiers are gonnasee each other and they're gonna
fall in love.
His Corgi's name is Molly, andmy Corgi's name is Nutmeg, and
(05:46):
they're just gonna getimmediately bonded.
It's perfect.
SPEAKER_01 (05:49):
Yeah, I see it.
I see it now.
SPEAKER_00 (05:51):
See it.
All right, so you found thesegenres.
SPEAKER_01 (05:56):
Yes, and everybody was like, What happened?
Okay, so I set up the library tolook like a little restaurant,
and then I had students come in,they had a menu, and on their
menu they had to give thesebooks ratings.
So on every table, there wasprobably, I don't know, 10 books
or so in that genre, um, basedon again what was most popular
(06:18):
in years past.
And then the kids would justpick up a random book and decide
if they liked it or not, or ifthey wanted to read it maybe or
not.
And they spent a few minutes atevery table.
And then by the end, almostevery student checked out a
book.
SPEAKER_00 (06:32):
Wow.
SPEAKER_01 (06:33):
Which was really cool.
And to me, it was like I heardso many conversations of I don't
normally like this kind of book,but this sounded really
interesting.
And so that was that was reallycool.
And I'm like, see, you neverknow, you just gotta give it a
chance.
SPEAKER_00 (06:49):
Give it a try.
That's awesome.
So the cool thing about that iswhen they have that experience,
they're able to, you know, maybesomebody who's always reading
only Stephen King.
Is there some other authorswithin the genre that you might
want to explore too?
(07:11):
Or maybe there's a completelydifferent genre that I never
even thought I would enjoy, buthere was an opportunity to be
exposed.
That's great.
Yeah, for sure.
Um, yeah.
So um do you know if any of theother schools are doing
something similar, or do youthink that's unique to hear?
SPEAKER_01 (07:30):
So I think that's unique to hear, but I like I
mentioned earlier, I know thatthe other schools all have
different fun events that theydo, especially the elementary
levels with the families inparticular.
I'm hoping to do some more umevents where I can bring in
families, but I still have tokind of work on how that's gonna
work logistically.
(07:50):
Um, but they they've even donefun things before where they
have um staff members that dressup in costumes, and then you
have the kids like guess who thereader is.
And those are fun.
They they they love life.
It's like the mass singer,except with reading.
So the voice.
SPEAKER_00 (08:11):
So that's really fun.
Yeah.
So that's really cool.
That's that's another way toengage people.
So do you ever collaborate withthe other librarians to come up
with these ideas, or is thissomething that you were just
thinking, this would be a greatidea to do here?
SPEAKER_01 (08:27):
Yeah, so um actually all of the librarians, school
librarians in Cataragas County,we get together once a quarter.
SPEAKER_00 (08:35):
Oh, awesome.
SPEAKER_01 (08:36):
And uh we trade ideas and we share things.
And the Hensdale librarian gaveme this idea last year.
And she did something kind ofsimilar with hers.
I just tweaked it a little bitthat I felt like it would fit my
kids better.
But it it's a really greatopportunity because there's some
great minds out there.
(08:57):
So it's it's cool to get toshare, you know, what you've
been working on and ideas forother schools.
SPEAKER_00 (09:02):
So that's awesome.
That's awesome.
And another event that I knowthat you've been supporting is
asking our staff in the buildingto share what books we're
reading.
Yes.
So how did you come up with thatand how has it been working in
the building?
SPEAKER_01 (09:20):
That one I actually I had just been reading, uh,
came across I probably onFacebook or something, some sort
of research study and stuff.
And it was talking about umstudents or when younger people
notice that people they considerto be mentors do something, they
tend to also do it.
And I thought, well, that'sseems especially fitting for
(09:43):
reading because we all readthings.
It's just that the studentsdon't realize, like, hey, we
still read, even though we'renot in school anymore, you know?
And I've seen that play out thisyear, even in the hallways.
I'll hear staff members talkingto a kid.
They're like, oh, you're readingthat book.
I read that like a couple ofyears ago.
It was so good.
Um, and they give each otherrecommendations now and they're
(10:05):
having these conversations,which is wonderful.
It's an awesome place to startfrom.
And hopefully we'll continue toencourage um more students to
read more books.
SPEAKER_00 (10:17):
I really enjoy walking around too and seeing
some of the people are are uhputting up that they're reading.
There was a book by I think itwas Matthew McConaughey that
someone posted down.
Oh, yeah.
He's got a couple good ones, andthat was such a surprise to me.
Yeah, and I have a whole bunchof audible uh credits, so I like
to do audible books, and then Ilooked his name up and I was
(10:40):
like, I know this man wrotebooks too.
He does, he was pretty cool.
So now I'm gonna explore themafter I do my next rotation
books.
SPEAKER_01 (10:49):
Yeah, he's got a good one called Green Lights.
Green lights, yeah.
I read that one last year.
It's really good.
SPEAKER_00 (10:56):
That's great to know.
I had no idea until I walkeddown that hall and saw that on
the on the wall.
That's hilarious.
All right, so are there anyupcoming school based events
that you want anybody to knowabout that are related to
(11:17):
libraries or literacy that youwant people to hear something
about so they can get excitedand participate with you?
Or do you just want to generallyencourage everybody to continue
to embrace their love ofreading, or do you want to do
well?
SPEAKER_01 (11:32):
I definitely want to encourage people to just embrace
their love of reading.
And um honestly, that wholementorship thing, it goes back
to even parents at home.
So I would definitely encouragefolks at home, uh, guardians, to
start reading books or talkingto the kid about, you know, hey,
I'm I read this book the otherday, it was really good, or what
(11:54):
are you reading lately, orthings like that, even just
those small conversations canhave a big impact on kids
because they might not know thatyou know you like Matthew
McConaughey's books until youtalk to them about it.
SPEAKER_00 (12:06):
So we didn't know.
Yeah, it's great.
Okay, thank you.
And so um, finally, what's onebook you've read recently that
you would recommend to ourlisteners?
SPEAKER_01 (12:20):
Oh man, there's so many good ones out there.
Um one of my favorites that Iread this year was the Let Them
Theory by Mel Robbins.
Yeah, that was really good.
That was impactful for mebecause I felt like after I read
that book, I re-examined all ofthe conversations that I had
(12:44):
recently or events in my life.
And uh I think it also helpsjust as an educator because you
know you interact with peopleevery day.
That's my job.
And and so it it helped me umfigure out how to best approach
certain situations, I guess I'dsay.
SPEAKER_00 (13:00):
Yeah, yeah.
No, I've heard such good thingsabout that.
A really good friend of mine whojust retired as a
superintendent.
She told me, because I have thislong cue of books reading, and
she said, You've gotta add that.
That's a really good thing.
It's fantastic.
So worth the reading.
Worth the reading here.
I'm definitely adding them.
Plus, I want to read all of theDa Vinci Coke series again, you
(13:24):
know, because they just came outwith another book, but I was
like, I forgot what happenedbefore.
So now you gotta restart.
I've got to restart.
So get all these books, but I'mreally gonna add that to my list
at all for sure, Jason.
Thank you so much.
All right, is there anythingelse you want to make sure that
our listeners know before wesign off?
SPEAKER_01 (13:44):
Um, I would just say, you know, uh keep
encouraging your readers, andI'm excited for this year.
I have tons and tons ofcollaborations planned with
teachers.
We're gonna do a lot of funstuff this year, and uh, I hope
that that reflects again inincreased circulation numbers
and more kids finding surprisingthings they like to read.
SPEAKER_00 (14:07):
So thank you so much, Brianna, for coming on the
Husky Huddle.
And I'm so happy that I got youas our very first husky huddler
of the year.
So thank you so much, and I lookforward to having you on again.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you for having me.
I appreciate it.
Thank you.
So, welcome everybody to our first episode
of the Husky Huddle for theschool year.
We are so excited to get this upand running again.
And I can't wait to interviewlots of people in Oleanne City
School District and ask themabout everything that they're
(00:24):
doing and share that witheveryone out there who really
wants to learn about ourdistrict and things that we do
here.
So, our very, very first podcastguest is Brianna Howard, who is
our esteemed librarian here atthe high school.
And we are just going to have agreat conversation about
(00:47):
literacy and libraries and allthose awesome things.
And so I'm going to begin byasking Brianna to tell us a
little bit about herself and whyand how she got to Oleanne High
School here with us.
SPEAKER_01 (01:04):
Yes, so I am Brianna Howard, and um I started my
career with Olean actually as aseventh-grade social studies
teacher.
And I did that for a few yearsand I loved it.
Um, and I got my master's degreein library science.
And it just so happened the yearI graduated that a position came
open here at the high school.
(01:24):
So it worked out great.
And um, so I've been in thisposition now.
This is my second year, and it'sbeen just so much fun.
It's a delight to get to meld mylove of history when I have
those history nerds in thelibrary and just general
literacy because I do love toread.
So that's a great, I mean, it'sjust fantastic.
SPEAKER_00 (01:47):
Well, that's wonderful, and it's a beautiful
space up there.
So I love going in the libraryand going in all libraries, but
particularly autos.
Our library is just an awesomespace for sure.
It's great, it supports literacyand funny enough.
September uh was NationalLiteracy Month, and we just
(02:07):
celebrated InternationalLiteracy Day.
So, do you have any opinionabout why these literacy
celebrations are important forour district and our students?
And how do you celebrate thesethings?
SPEAKER_01 (02:21):
Yeah, I mean, I think literacy is really the
cornerstone of everything we dowith education.
And it's just so important toget a good strong foundation
there before we try to build onto all these extra things.
And with all of the informationthat people are getting
inundated with every day, allthe time, it's so important to
(02:44):
know how to sift through it.
And there's literacy skills thatgo beyond just reading, but like
digital literacy and every otherpiece of that.
And so I'm really proud of ourdistrict in that we we start
from elementary.
The elementary schools havethese awesome programs where
they bring in um families, theyhave reading nights, they have
(03:05):
all this fun stuff, and then wecontinue that.
And Karen Fox does a great jobat the middle school.
She has an awesome program withthe kids.
And uh so I just hope tocontinue that with the high
school.
So up here this month, we'vedone a lot with the um,
especially with the youngergrades, and we've done like book
(03:26):
tastings, trying to get studentsinterested in doing independent
reading.
And the English teachers havebeen super on board, and it's
been really great to see thatour numbers have increased
dramatically from years past.
Um, so my most recent numbersnow compared to last year, where
(03:46):
I had about, you know, like lessthan 100 checkouts, we'll just
say.
This year we have as of todayover 450.
unknown (03:55):
Wow.
SPEAKER_01 (03:56):
So the numbers just keep skyrocketing, and that's
great.
SPEAKER_00 (03:59):
Only a month.
Yes, yeah, yeah.
And that's all supporting thateffort.
So thank you.
That's great.
All right, so um, we heard aboutthe Olean High School book
tasting event, and that's led tothis increase in the checkouts.
(04:21):
So tell us more about this eventand why do you think it was so
successful?
SPEAKER_01 (04:27):
Yeah, so basically what I did is I looked at data
from past years and I figuredout which genres students are
most likely to check out.
And then I so I I pulled out, Ithink I had eight total, and
their ones uh it was a kind of ahealthy mixture.
Of course, you've got yourromance in there.
(04:48):
Um, graphic novels are verypopular right now, so that that
was one.
Um, but we've also got you know,fantasy, we have sports, um also
very popular right now is likehorror or thriller type of
books.
Not really my jam, but I know alot of kids really like them.
SPEAKER_00 (05:06):
Oh, Brian and I share our similar taste in the
horror zone.
Yeah, I've read every singleStephen King.
SPEAKER_01 (05:15):
Have you?
Yes.
Well, then you could certainlytalk to some students about some
Stephen King because we havesome serious Stephen King fans
in this building.
Yes.
SPEAKER_00 (05:24):
One day I want to go to Maine, and I don't want to
sidetrack too much, but he alsohas a Corgi.
So I feel like if I bring myCorgi and he's out with his
Corgi, those corgiers are gonnasee each other and they're gonna
fall in love.
His Corgi's name is Molly, andmy Corgi's name is Nutmeg, and
(05:46):
they're just gonna getimmediately bonded.
It's perfect.
SPEAKER_01 (05:49):
Yeah, I see it.
I see it now.
SPEAKER_00 (05:51):
See it.
All right, so you found thesegenres.
SPEAKER_01 (05:56):
Yes, and everybody was like, What happened?
Okay, so I set up the library tolook like a little restaurant,
and then I had students come in,they had a menu, and on their
menu they had to give thesebooks ratings.
So on every table, there wasprobably, I don't know, 10 books
or so in that genre, um, basedon again what was most popular
(06:18):
in years past.
And then the kids would justpick up a random book and decide
if they liked it or not, or ifthey wanted to read it maybe or
not.
And they spent a few minutes atevery table.
And then by the end, almostevery student checked out a
book.
SPEAKER_00 (06:32):
Wow.
SPEAKER_01 (06:33):
Which was really cool.
And to me, it was like I heardso many conversations of I don't
normally like this kind of book,but this sounded really
interesting.
And so that was that was reallycool.
And I'm like, see, you neverknow, you just gotta give it a
chance.
SPEAKER_00 (06:49):
Give it a try.
That's awesome.
So the cool thing about that iswhen they have that experience,
they're able to, you know, maybesomebody who's always reading
only Stephen King.
Is there some other authorswithin the genre that you might
want to explore too?
(07:11):
Or maybe there's a completelydifferent genre that I never
even thought I would enjoy, buthere was an opportunity to be
exposed.
That's great.
Yeah, for sure.
Um, yeah.
So um do you know if any of theother schools are doing
something similar, or do youthink that's unique to hear?
SPEAKER_01 (07:30):
So I think that's unique to hear, but I like I
mentioned earlier, I know thatthe other schools all have
different fun events that theydo, especially the elementary
levels with the families inparticular.
I'm hoping to do some more umevents where I can bring in
families, but I still have tokind of work on how that's gonna
work logistically.
(07:50):
Um, but they they've even donefun things before where they
have um staff members that dressup in costumes, and then you
have the kids like guess who thereader is.
And those are fun.
They they they love life.
It's like the mass singer,except with reading.
So the voice.
SPEAKER_00 (08:11):
So that's really fun.
Yeah.
So that's really cool.
That's that's another way toengage people.
So do you ever collaborate withthe other librarians to come up
with these ideas, or is thissomething that you were just
thinking, this would be a greatidea to do here?
SPEAKER_01 (08:27):
Yeah, so um actually all of the librarians, school
librarians in Cataragas County,we get together once a quarter.
SPEAKER_00 (08:35):
Oh, awesome.
SPEAKER_01 (08:36):
And uh we trade ideas and we share things.
And the Hensdale librarian gaveme this idea last year.
And she did something kind ofsimilar with hers.
I just tweaked it a little bitthat I felt like it would fit my
kids better.
But it it's a really greatopportunity because there's some
great minds out there.
(08:57):
So it's it's cool to get toshare, you know, what you've
been working on and ideas forother schools.
SPEAKER_00 (09:02):
So that's awesome.
That's awesome.
And another event that I knowthat you've been supporting is
asking our staff in the buildingto share what books we're
reading.
Yes.
So how did you come up with thatand how has it been working in
the building?
SPEAKER_01 (09:20):
That one I actually I had just been reading, uh,
came across I probably onFacebook or something, some sort
of research study and stuff.
And it was talking about umstudents or when younger people
notice that people they considerto be mentors do something, they
tend to also do it.
And I thought, well, that'sseems especially fitting for
(09:43):
reading because we all readthings.
It's just that the studentsdon't realize, like, hey, we
still read, even though we'renot in school anymore, you know?
And I've seen that play out thisyear, even in the hallways.
I'll hear staff members talkingto a kid.
They're like, oh, you're readingthat book.
I read that like a couple ofyears ago.
It was so good.
Um, and they give each otherrecommendations now and they're
(10:05):
having these conversations,which is wonderful.
It's an awesome place to startfrom.
And hopefully we'll continue toencourage um more students to
read more books.
SPEAKER_00 (10:17):
I really enjoy walking around too and seeing
some of the people are are uhputting up that they're reading.
There was a book by I think itwas Matthew McConaughey that
someone posted down.
Oh, yeah.
He's got a couple good ones, andthat was such a surprise to me.
Yeah, and I have a whole bunchof audible uh credits, so I like
to do audible books, and then Ilooked his name up and I was
(10:40):
like, I know this man wrotebooks too.
He does, he was pretty cool.
So now I'm gonna explore themafter I do my next rotation
books.
SPEAKER_01 (10:49):
Yeah, he's got a good one called Green Lights.
Green lights, yeah.
I read that one last year.
It's really good.
SPEAKER_00 (10:56):
That's great to know.
I had no idea until I walkeddown that hall and saw that on
the on the wall.
That's hilarious.
All right, so are there anyupcoming school based events
that you want anybody to knowabout that are related to
(11:17):
libraries or literacy that youwant people to hear something
about so they can get excitedand participate with you?
Or do you just want to generallyencourage everybody to continue
to embrace their love ofreading, or do you want to do
well?
SPEAKER_01 (11:32):
I definitely want to encourage people to just embrace
their love of reading.
And um honestly, that wholementorship thing, it goes back
to even parents at home.
So I would definitely encouragefolks at home, uh, guardians, to
start reading books or talkingto the kid about, you know, hey,
I'm I read this book the otherday, it was really good, or what
(11:54):
are you reading lately, orthings like that, even just
those small conversations canhave a big impact on kids
because they might not know thatyou know you like Matthew
McConaughey's books until youtalk to them about it.
SPEAKER_00 (12:06):
So we didn't know.
Yeah, it's great.
Okay, thank you.
And so um, finally, what's onebook you've read recently that
you would recommend to ourlisteners?
SPEAKER_01 (12:20):
Oh man, there's so many good ones out there.
Um one of my favorites that Iread this year was the Let Them
Theory by Mel Robbins.
Yeah, that was really good.
That was impactful for mebecause I felt like after I read
that book, I re-examined all ofthe conversations that I had
(12:44):
recently or events in my life.
And uh I think it also helpsjust as an educator because you
know you interact with peopleevery day.
That's my job.
And and so it it helped me umfigure out how to best approach
certain situations, I guess I'dsay.
SPEAKER_00 (13:00):
Yeah, yeah.
No, I've heard such good thingsabout that.
A really good friend of mine whojust retired as a
superintendent.
She told me, because I have thislong cue of books reading, and
she said, You've gotta add that.
That's a really good thing.
It's fantastic.
So worth the reading.
Worth the reading here.
I'm definitely adding them.
Plus, I want to read all of theDa Vinci Coke series again, you
(13:24):
know, because they just came outwith another book, but I was
like, I forgot what happenedbefore.
So now you gotta restart.
I've got to restart.
So get all these books, but I'mreally gonna add that to my list
at all for sure, Jason.
Thank you so much.
All right, is there anythingelse you want to make sure that
our listeners know before wesign off?
SPEAKER_01 (13:44):
Um, I would just say, you know, uh keep
encouraging your readers, andI'm excited for this year.
I have tons and tons ofcollaborations planned with
teachers.
We're gonna do a lot of funstuff this year, and uh, I hope
that that reflects again inincreased circulation numbers
and more kids finding surprisingthings they like to read.
SPEAKER_00 (14:07):
So thank you so much, Brianna, for coming on the
Husky Huddle.
And I'm so happy that I got youas our very first husky huddler
of the year.
So thank you so much, and I lookforward to having you on again.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you for having me.
I appreciate it.
Thank you.
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