Rob Casper: All right, so if you could just say your name and tell us where we are.
Catherine Williams:  Hi!  I’m Catherine Williams. I’m the branch manager of the New Haven Branch Library, in New Haven Kentucky.
Rob:  Well, thanks for having us here, and I just want to talk to you a little bit about what the New Haven library already does that this program is a part of.  
Catherine:  We have tons of programming throughout the whole week, for various ages:  we do children’s craft nights every Thursday night, we have a teen zone night solely for teens, we actually geared this towards the teens in the hope that they would be able to come in and get to learn more about poetry because they’re not necessarily taught that on a daily basis, we also have adult programming, and then during the summer we have summer reading programs which we encourage all ages to participate in.  We do various activities, there’s normally a theme, and this year’s theme is going to be about how libraries rock, so it’s going to be music based.  So we will encourage people to come in and grab books that are about music, and then learn different types of music as well, so the library opens your world to more than just reading.  
Rob:  And what do you think is the best thing Tracy could do, coming into this community, coming into the library, engaging with middleschoolers and their families?  
Catherine:  Hopefully she will come in and show people that poetry is not something that you should be afraid to try and to read, that there’s great poets out there that are living poets.  Most of the time, when I was in school, I just learned about poetry from Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe, and there’s more to poetry than all of the dead poets.  There’s real life poets out there that make a living out of this.  It will teach kids and their families that there is more to just reading and writing than what they see in books.  
Rob:  Terrific, thank you that was great.