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  • Tenzin Kalsang, a librarian in Brooklyn whose Tibetan-English Storytime went viral

    Tenzin Kalsang, a librarian in Brooklyn whose Tibetan-English Storytime went viral

    Prior to the outbreak, a typical storytime at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Greenpoint branch would have had 40 participants: babies, toddlers, and caregivers gathered for songs and stories read aloud. During the peak of the outbreak, Tenzin Kalsang, a children’s librarian, established an online Tibetan-English storytime, and up to 20,000 people tuned in. Even though…