Missouri: exterior of a library, cars pass on the road. A mother walks into the library holding her son’s hand. people check out books from a librarian. She speaks into a recorder. Another woman smokes while holding her dog, she takes her book and leaves. CU of a hand adjusting knobs on a Dictaphone. A woman uses a typewriter. Shot of another woman typing. CU of a rotating record. CU of a postcard with the drawing of a girl on roller-skates. A man uses a lettering machine to create a new cover for Rising Star by Jackson. A line of women use a paintbrush to put glue in the book’s cover. A graphotype machine types out cards. A woman and a man reorganizes books. A balding man rolls out a paper to show another man. It is a blueprint of a library. Cuts to a van towing a trailer labeled St. Louis County Library.