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Today is March 17th, 2023. I'm interviewing Kevin Delaney for the first time. This interview is taking place over Zoom. I'm in Kew Gardens. Kevin, I believe is in Brooklyn?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=11.0,27.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: I'm in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. Yep.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=27.0,29.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: Carroll Gardens—and this interview is part of the Queens Memory Project. So at the end I'll send the consent form for you to sign. It's E-Form. If you have any questions, let me know about that. But I guess just to start, if you can tell me a little bit about where you grew up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=29.0,48.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: Yes. I grew up off of Hillside Avenue in Bellerose, Queens. And my parents had moved there just prior to my birth basically, and grew up, you know, through my childhood in Bellerose and then for high school started commuting to Manhattan to a school on the Upper East Side, taking the Q43 Bus to the F train to the N or R to the 4 or 5 or 6 to 86th street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=48.0,81.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: That's so familiar. That kind of epic journey.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=81.0,84.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: It was very epic.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=84.0,87.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: And what was Bellerose like when you were growing up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=87.0,91.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: Yeah, Bellerose, it's hard to like characterize something that is kind of where you come from, I think. But it was a very, you know, middle, middle class Queens community that was relatively, felt like a community in a neighborhood and had some reasonable amount of civic activity. My family was members of St. Gregory the Great parish, and so a lot of our community was anchored around the church. I went to the grammar school and played all the sports for the grammar school, and so that defined the community for us a fair bit.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=91.0,149.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: And what made your parents decide to move to the Bellerose in the first place?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=149.0,155.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: So my dad was a civil servant for the city, and so he wanted to, sort of needed to I think, was required at the time to live within the city limits. And Bellerose was seemed like, I think a good community for them to start a family, but it wasn't in Nassau. And so it was, you know, a place that, so it satisfied those requirements. My mother was a nurse at Long Island Jewish Hospital, and so she had been working at Columbia Presbyterian. And so I think it also had the advantage of proximity to Long Island Jewish for her to be able to work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=155.0,208.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: So, Bellerose Library obviously figured quite large in your family's life, before some of the demonstrations that we'll get to in a moment. But do you have earlier memories of library time at the Bellerose branch or otherwise?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=208.0,227.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: Yeah, well, so the library, I was I guess four or five and the library was built. They had taken over a gas station site to build this library, and so I don't really have any memories of libraries prior to that library opening. So yeah, the story starts with this library that was built and then for budget reasons was in this kind of limbo for a year or two years where it wasn't actually opened.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=227.0,272.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: I was trying to find some news coverage from the time. Just to inform myself because we have a bit of a gap on the digital archive side, but could you talk a little bit about what was happening, kind of set the story a little bit.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=272.0,289.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: Yeah, so the story is, as I know from my father who was really involved in the Bellerose Civic Association, and actually amazingly has kept these files of clippings for like years that are letters and various updates on the library. It's a folder entitled library and includes things like this Queens Borough Public Library 1976 update report. Um, and basically what as I understand it, what happened is that the city decided to, or the Queens Borough Library system decided to build a bunch of community-based smaller footprint libraries. And Bellerose was one of the places where they took over this gas station site on 250th Street and Hillside Avenue and they decided to build a library. And so they built this kind of cement block, one story, you know, basic, relatively small library building. And then for budget reasons, they decided that they didn't have the money to actually buy books for the library or to operate it. And so it went, the community was really excited to actually have the library built, but then it never opened.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=289.0,384.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: And so what happened from there is the library was actually given over to the Social Services Administration of the city to operate an office for, like a community office there. And meanwhile, the community was pretty active in, like they finally built us a library. We need this library to open. And so the documentation that my father has is these endless chains of letters with various legislators which, with the library head, with the kinda whoever could be addressed to say, this community really needs a library and is ready to support a library. You have to figure out a way to open this. And making various arguments about how, obviously there were financial constraints, but the city was spending lots of money in lots of other places and the cost of actually operating a library that was already built was relatively modest on the scale of things. And so that for a few years actually, there was this kind of back and forth and the kind of campaign seemed lost when the library system actually turned the building over.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=384.0,470.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: But they kept writing and kept, and I as a kid attended at least once with my dad being on his shoulders, holding signs, demonstrating for the opening of the library. And he wore, still has kept this T-shirt where he and other people had these T-shirts made and wore them at these demonstrations. And we had signs and ultimately to jump forward ahead in time, they found the money and they opened the library and there's a Daily News headline about how people power worked and how this was like a great victory for civic action around getting the library in the community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=470.0,532.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: Do you remember when the library opened, kind of what your personal response or your family's response was like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=532.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: I mean, we were so excited about having this library. Because it was both a real resource for our family and it also was a bit of a like, in the 1970s in New York, like a bit of a ray of hope and sunlight that the people could actually against the odds actually get something like a library built in their, or opened at least in their community. And I remember the early, I spent a ton of time in the library as a kid and it was a, not to, not really exaggerating, kind of a second home for me. And I remember the energy of the library being really so positive and just the ownership of the community and you would run into people there and there are always kids there. And often I probably went without my parents. I was there just kind of on my own as a kid and there were lots of other kids there and would run into friends and neighbors and the librarians had real purpose and expertise and I was always very impressed by them and the service that they were doing in that library.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=540.0,638.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: And the library just opened up so many different things. There were the books, at one point like early on the library, in computing, the library actually let you borrow these very basic computers, kind of like Radio Shack like computers that you could actually check out and take home for a few days and play with. Very, very early computing. And they had records and audio tapes and videotapes eventually. And so it just, for, I was an only child in a modest family, just kind of opened up this activity, this hub around learning and access to different resources. And then from there, there are tons of programs. So I was part of a summer reading program and you had your name on whatever the theme of the summer was, it might be fish, and then you went from being a tadpole to something to something based on how many books he read. And one summer I read over a hundred books as part of this program. They had movies. I remember watching kind of film movies of King Kong and all these old movies that they were, they had kind of, they have like a room, community room and so they could go and watch free movies, which was kind of a thing as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=638.0,742.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: Well, I mean the idea of the take home early computers, like wow, how ahead of their time that was. That's really cool. I hadn't heard about that before. Are there, you know, is there a particular librarian or a particular book that you came across? You know, anything that kind of sticks out as a like, wow, that was important.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=742.0,769.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: You know, the librarians are great. Like unfortunately, I don't remember their names. I was relatively little, but the thing that they did is they took you seriously, like as a, even as a kid, you'd have a question and they had time for you. And I was pretty bookish, in there a lot, and so they were these adult companions in learning in a really interesting way. They would help me find things, they would ask me what I was reading. At one point there were books that were coded, like adult books or something, and they were like, I think they talked to my parents about it, but they were like, I was under the age to check them out without parental accompaniment. And that was sorted very quickly just, because everyone agreed that I was up to reading it. There are two types of books that really stand out in my mind.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=769.0,839.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: I mean one of them is, this is kind of random but The Great Brain books, like just were among the books that I remember reading that whole series. And it was silly and fun and as a little kid among the books that I could read on my own quickly and really connect with. I was really interested, there's a little section on computer programming and robots and like not enough, but sort of somewhere in the craft in between crafts and computing and early computer basic programming and things like that. And that I definitely was really interested in those books and took those books out over and over and over again. And then the section that I like—the magazines were very memorable. I would read Harper's Magazine, I think is among the magazines that I would go and read in the library. And the place that I really spent the most time as a kid was in the classic section. And so I just read through the classics and I am not sure why, I think someone might've said, oh, you should read some of those books. And I like just worked my way through all of Dickens and all of these various classic authors and just kind of immersed myself in that. And that was kind of interesting and I couldn't tell you exactly why I started doing that. But yeah, that was where I spent a lot of my time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=839.0,948.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: I can so relate to so much of this experience as another fellow Queens kid, but I wanted to ask more about kind of the role of libraries through your life, not just the Queen Public Library, but other libraries that you interacted with. But just for a moment, the file that you showed, your dad's civic file of just library, can you talk a little bit about his engagement with the local community and the types of record keeping that he has amassed from that time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=948.0,985.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: It's kind of amazing this record that he, you know, I told him that we were gonna be speaking and he produced this file from his basement. My dad has been on civic committees and boards. He grew up in Elmhurst, Queens and has lived in New York City his whole life. And he's been a member of the New York, of a Queens planning board for over 50 years at this point I think. There are now term limits and so I think he has either four years left until he is termed out. But the term limits are, it's not a 55 year term limit, it's that they just instituted them recently. And so he's someone who's just been really involved in the planning boards and the civic association, president of various things from a really young age. And so this is a sort of issue that he has been really involved with.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=985.0,1051.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: When we were speaking about this, he was saying that there was, there's an anniversary or rededication of the library or something a bunch of years ago, and one of the state senators I think was at it, or the borough president or someone was there, and he went up to them and said, this is great. But the PSS 133 playground, which is used by the community, has been falling apart and the city really needs to come and fix the playground. And so the playground has recently been renovated and there's this great playground now. And so that's kind of an example of his type of involvement and a lot of going through this file, a lot of it is just writing letters to various representatives of the government and the library in this city saying that the community needs this library. And just kind of, I guess being heard or being persistent about and also believing that sort of action, which is represented by these two legal folders of correspondence and clips, there's a lot here, you know, is a way for people in the city to have a voice. And endless actually even handwritten notes from civic association meetings and various meetings with people. So it's an amazing, amazing effort to get this library.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1051.0,1164.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: This is only, he has files about other things, but these are the files about the library.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1164.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: Wow. And was it a one year, two year campaign to reopen the library?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1170.0,1176.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: Yeah, it opened in 1978 and I think it was confirmed in 77. And the correspondence is kind of 76, 77, 78. So yeah, definitely there's definitely activity in 76. Like this is, I think among the, this is from 1976, \"budget cuts may close 43 libraries\" which I think is related to their failure to open the Bellerose branch initially.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1176.0,1231.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: So as a kid who spent a lot of time, as you mentioned, a second home to you, the library, how was your school library, the other kind of library spaces that you may have inhabited during that same kind of time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1231.0,1251.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: Yeah like, none of them were really quite as good as the Bellerose Library for me in a way. I had went to St. Gregory's school and the library was more under greater surveillance. You could only go in at certain times and then they were kind of watching what you were touching and reading, and it was relatively small and not as anywhere near as interesting as the public library. So that was that. And then in high school, it was a good library, but probably still not, didn't mean as much to me as the Bellerose Library.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1251.0,1303.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: And when we were talking, this was, I realize now about more than a month ago, probably when we first spoke on the phone, but you mentioned that some of those early experiences at Bellerose Library helped carry you through much of your academic life, your career. If you could talk a little bit about how you see those connections.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1303.0,1323.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: Yeah, I think that the library made me feel very, and that experience and feeling at home in a library and being able to explore my interest and not being constrained by the books that we might've had at home or even just having a relationship with the librarians, I think gave me so much more confidence intellectually. And that ultimately was part of my story. And I got a scholarship to go to a high school in Manhattan and then went on to Yale from there and then ultimately became a journalist and have spent my life writing. I am running a media company now, and as part of what we do, we're focused on the future of work and I pretty much every week read one of the latest business and management books and write a critical summary of it that we then send out in an email newsletter to our readers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1323.0,1399.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: And so I've read over the last two years, something like a hundred books or more. And so I don't know how direct the line is from feeling really at home in a library, but there is some anchoring in that. And I feel like all of the research that I'm aware of shows that early exposure to reading is—the way you become a good writer is that you read a lot and if you read a lot as a kid, that's even better. And so I had that gift as a kid, and my house to actually to situate it, my house was probably about, if I walked it, it was about 400 feet maybe from the library. So it was kind of one block over and around the corner, but I could be there if I wanted in a minute. And so it was just so proximate. It was kind of amazing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1399.0,1480.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: I think we're so used to, of course right now, instantaneous access to information, but then imagining that's not so far off, walking a minute to the library, that experience of access was there for you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1480.0,1494.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: Yeah and also it's like there's a curated but broad collection of works. So you're not kind of randomly surfing or you're not sort of honing in a super targeted way. You're ambiently doing it, you're also ambiently exposed to the life of the community in an interesting way. It's a third space, a public space. It actually gives texture to a community because you see various people coming in and out in a way that it's kind of interesting to have a non-commercial space like that, which is obviously what libraries still are. But that definitely was part of my own experience. It was some significant portion of my experience in my community was actually in the library.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1494.0,1553.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: Does the library have a place in your life now?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1553.0,1558.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: We have a great, where we live in Brooklyn, and so there's the Brooklyn Public Library, and we have a great little branch, the Carroll Gardens branch. It's not actively part of my life. I think part of it is that I'm consuming so many books for work that I don't have a lot of other room for reading. And so it isn't really part of it. The idea of a library is still part of my life. And part of that is that my mother-in-law was a reference librarian in the public library in Norwalk, Connecticut until she retired a few years ago. And so we talk about libraries a lot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1558.0,1615.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: Some of the headlines that you were showing just a little earlier, the threat of 40 something branches closing and it feels like kind of a repeated cycle. We keep getting there as a city. We're on the brink, we come back, we're on the brink, we come back, and we're kind of in a moment similar to that right now just with city budgets and what public library funding may be. What is the value of having these places accessible to people in the city in 2023 at a very different time than when your family was fighting for the library to reopen?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1615.0,1664.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: I mean, I think they're, they're like a profound resource that is beyond value to a city. And part of it is you don't know specifically what role they'll play in people's lives because they play so many different roles for people. They're a safe place for people to come and spend time outside of work or school. They're supervision for kids. They're access to—supervision just meaning they can go there and they're not somewhere else that's dangerous. They're a connection to a community. I feel that every time I go into the Brooklyn Public Library, the main branch where [unclear] go occasionally, and it's just you feel the energy and the generations of the, because everyone is there for their own reason. There're kids looking for the copy of David Copperfield for their school reading assignment or other people who are looking for recent novel. There's just so many different people traveling and looking for travel guides. And so I think as a resource, it's, it couldn't be more return on investment in libraries, acknowledging that the nature of information consumption has changed profoundly from when the late 1970s when the Bellerose Public Library opened, they're still a place where people have access to information via public computers. They are this hub of community and they provide access to books, printed books, which retain a real importance and value.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1664.0,1807.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: Have you been back to the Bellerose Library recently?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1807.0,1810.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: I have not, no. I'm in Bellerose on, visiting my parents usually at times of the week when the library is not open.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1810.0,1820.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: After you were an active user of the Bellerose Library and then maybe during high school or later in adulthood when you didn't have that active user status, did you have a chance to go back and just kind of see it with fresh eyes?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1820.0,1837.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: Yeah, yeah. No, I definitely, over the years have gone back and there're the obvious things. It feels very small. It's a relatively small library, which felt enormous to me as a little kid, but who had to push aside the entry gate at my neck height to actually go in. And the population of Bellerose has changed really significantly in the time just in terms of backgrounds and ethnicities and nationalities, and that is reflected in the patronage of the library. So it's kind of just an interesting experience. The more things change, the less they change in a way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1837.0,1899.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: Especially when they occupy the same physical frame. It's so interesting to see the shifts come through, and yet it still looks similar in many ways.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1899.0,1909.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: And people are doing the same things and they're the same kids. And yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1909.0,1917.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: I know that there's so much more of your background and your life we have barely even touched, but I want to keep an eye on time, if you have a little bit of time to just talk about your career and kind of get a sense of what happened once you left Bellerose, or we can save that for some other time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1917.0,1941.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: Yeah, no, I'm happy to talk about it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1941.0,1943.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: Okay. So you mentioned at the top that epic journey from all the different modes of transportation to get to the Upper East Side. What was that like for you as a kid from pretty far out in Queens, to be suddenly closer to the heart of things in Manhattan?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1943.0,1960.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: Yeah, I mean, it was amazing. It was just so energizing and eyeopening, and I think the magic of New York is partly the energy of possibility. And that is what I felt in a really, really personal way because of doing that. It was that commute at the time, especially was longer than it would be now because the train connections weren't as good. I started doing it in, I was probably about 13 years old in the 1980s, and it was a moment of relatively, actually significantly higher crime in the subways and feelings of insecurity. There's much more graffiti and just much more general, I think, insecurity than you wouldn't probably, or fewer people would ride the train late at night because of safety concerns. You would stay in the first car of the train. And I've seen that change really significantly. I've seen a really significant change in there. So that was like an amazing transformative experience to be commuting into Manhattan and exposure to everything that brings. I had a friend Jason who lived in the neighborhood, and so we commuted together a lot of the time, and that was kind of a big part of the experience was having a buddy to make this epic trip.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=1960.0,2076.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: And so what are some of the things that happened after that? How did you find yourself becoming a journalist after you completed your formal education and things like that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=2076.0,2088.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: Yeah, so I was, during college, I was the editor of a weekly newspaper, the college newspaper. I was a stringer for the New York Times from New Haven, and I interned for the Wall Street Journal for a few summers. I was very quickly in college, was like, oh, I love writing. And I did the directed studies, kind of like classic western thing. And part of that I think connects to just feeling confident from reading all the classics in the library that I could do, that I could read a book a week and I could read a few books a week. And then out of college, I went to Montreal and was a TV producer for a production company that made public affairs and documentary television shows for the CBC and for PBS and for CTV. And then came back to New York and worked for the Wall Street Journal on a television station, WBIS, which they purchased with ITT. And so we stood up this new television station in New York that was very short lived because ITT was the object of a hostile takeover attack, and they started shedding assets. So the television station was sold within a year of our actually launching the programming there. I produced the first program for that TV station. It was Channel 21, and it was called Metro Issues, Metro, New York, New York Issues, actually, it's called New York Issues. And it was a show about New York, New York politics and New York policy and civic kind of issues, which is really fun.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=2088.0,2203.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: So then that was shut down. I worked for Smart Money Magazine, which was owned by the Journal for a bit, and then went and lived in Paris as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal for a bunch of years, and then moved to San Francisco, covered internet companies for the Journal, came back to New York, was managing editor for digital for the Journal, did that for a few years, and then left to start something called Quartz, which is a business news startup, and ran that for a bunch of years. That was sold to a Japanese company, and then I left and went to the New York Times to do a project on economic inequality for a year, and then started a new media company called Charter, which is focused on how do we make workplaces better and more fair and more dynamic. So I've written, over the time I've been an editor and a CEO and various things and have also written in and edited hundreds and maybe probably thousands of articles as part of that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=2203.0,2275.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: Thank you for that nutshell, encapsulation. That's tremendous. All the different parts and jumps between media forms and approaches and thinking. You mentioned the time you spent working on the show about local New York policy, New York issues. Do you see any parallels between the work that you were doing, perhaps especially at that time, and the engagement that your dad has had, so central to his life for such a significant amount of time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=2275.0,2312.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: Yeah, no, I think I grew up in a household that very steeped in public service. So it was my dad, civics involvement, his job, he worked for the city as a lawyer in the Queens DA's office, and so that was very much part of our life. My mother was a nurse until her retirement and working with babies and was a lactation consultant as part of that. And so the journalism was interesting. I kind of loved reading and became good at writing, and so journalism felt like a way for me to do a public service. And so it's definitely connected. And there was that time, which was really cool when I was producing that show about New York. But in a lot of the way I've thought about the journalism that I've done, including the time at the Wall Street Journal, is as a public service, like bringing transparency and accountability to businesses and business people is pretty important for our society in a bunch of levels, whether people are investors or whether they're people who are impacted by businesses. The project that I did at the New York Times was also very much about this. It was about economic inequality, and it started kind of simultaneously with the pandemic. And so looked at how the inequalities of health, race, wealth played out, were amplified in the first months of the pandemic especially. And so that again has been kind of a thread.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=2312.0,2439.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: Is there anything that you want to add before we finish up the interview? Anything that we haven't had a chance to talk about that you were hoping to mention?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=2439.0,2453.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: I don't think so. I mean, the reason that I'm so excited about this conversation is just that the Queens Public Library has played a really important role in my life in many ways and unlocked a lot of the opportunities indirectly, but in a really important way that I've had over the years, and is again, indirectly remains part of my life and such an important resource that I feel very lucky to have had access to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=2453.0,2500.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: Well, thank you so much, Kevin. It was really lovely to speak with you, and if your dad and your mom would be interested in doing an interview, I'd love to talk to them too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=2500.0,2513.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kevin Delaney: Great. Yeah, I've spoken with my dad about it, so I will mention it to him again.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=2513.0,2521.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819/transcript/64271/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meral Agish: Great. I will stop the recording.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/99755/file/197819#t=2521.0,2526.32"}]}]}]}