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Also discussed are the changes in the Corona, East Elmhurst neighborhood since his childhood - and while still primarily being the home of the Black Heritage collection, the library’s outreach now is inclusive of the multicultural community that the area has evolved into. Jackson tells of how the library has been important to the Black community as a place for the young to learn their history, and as a place for elders to talk about their stories. He also discusses the role libraries throughout Queens as agents for learning and change, especially for underserved communities.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn the last half of the interview Andrew Jackson reads his statement entitled \"My legacy of service as an activist librarian at Queens Library's, Langston Hughes Community Library, and Cultural Center\" – where he discusses his journey toward librarianship, activism, and advocacy. 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In this interview Jackson discusses his 41 years at Langston Hughes Library, which has perhaps the largest circulating Black Heritage collection of any public library in the country, and how it\u0026rsquo;s non-traditional structure allowed him to take a unique approach to librarianship. Also discussed are the changes in the Corona, East Elmhurst neighborhood since his childhood - and while still primarily being the home of the Black Heritage collection, the library\u0026rsquo;s outreach now is inclusive of the multicultural community that the area has evolved into. Jackson tells of how the library has been important to the Black community as a place for the young to learn their history, and as a place for elders to talk about their stories. 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So my name is Natalie Milbrodt and I'm interviewing Andrew Jackson on June 4th, 2021. By making this recording, we both consent to the use of our names, voices, images, and likeness by the Queens Public Library, understanding that this recording will be the property of the library and will be used in connection with the promotion and marketing of the library, its programs and services. It will not be sold by the library in any way. We understand that we will not receive compensation and agree to hold the library harmless from any claim arising from the use of this interview and recording. So with that out of the way, Andrew, thank you for doing this.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=1.0,43.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: You're quite welcome.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=43.0,43.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Natalie Milbrodt: So, let's just kind of run through these questions. So the, the first one is how have you contributed to the work of the library? So this is a big answer. Where would you like to start?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=43.0,54.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: That's a good, that's the question? Where do I start? First thank you for this invitation and allowing me to share my thoughts as a retired librarian from Queens Library and today as a member of the Board of Trustees at Queens Library. How have I contributed to the work of the library? I think if I try to answer that, I have to say that my role at Langston Hughes Library has always been unique, in that it was not as straightforward as typical libraries are. Langston Hughes is a non-traditional setting for library because it started out as an experiment. It started out as a federally funded, special project of Queens Library. And then over 18 years, it transformed into a branch, full branch location. And in that environment, it allowed me to be non-traditional as well as the Director of the library and even the title: Executive Director, Langston Hughes, Community Library and Cultural Center is very different in duties and responsibilities and approach and, and even mentality than it is to being a community library manager of a typical branch at Queens Library.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=54.0,132.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: So it allowed me to be experimental, allowed me to be non-traditional allowed me to be different and unique in the approach that I took to my position. And I think that also relates to the fact that for, from 1980, when I started at Langston Hughes through 1996, I was a non librarian and managing a library and managing librarians and creating programs and services. I didn't get my MLS degree until I graduated from the graduate library program at Queens College in 1996. So I think that that outlook of being a non-librarian and learning about libraries, learning about the importance of libraries, understanding the critical nature of libraries at the same time that I was managing a library as a cultural institution, was a completely different approach. So the contribution to Queens Library was the types of programs we created.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=132.0,192.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: We were, it was not just about book circulation as most, as most of these stats were when we first started, but it was about how do we best serve the community? What are the needs of the community? How do we, how do we reach out to the community and let them know what we are as, as a library, and what we offer as a library, by getting out into the community and doing extensive, I mean, extensive community outreach to churches, schools, community organizations, police, fire department, correctional facilities, city agencies, state agencies, federal agencies. So my outreach was all over New York City. And I was also introducing them to this unique jewel in the crown of Queens Library called Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center. When people think of Black History and Black Culture, they think of the Schomburg Center for Research and Black Culture in Harlem, which is strictly a research library, and you can't circulate anything out of it. So even the Schomburg refers people to Langston Hughes when they want to circulate books on the Black Experience. So in order for people to know about that, I mean, we had to take the library to the people and not always hope that the people would find the library by coming into Queens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=192.0,271.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Natalie Milbrodt: And you talked about reaching out to the community. I mean, your demographics changed so much in the years that you were at Langston Hughes, but did the needs of the community change or was it just the demographics?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=271.0,283.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: I think it was a combination. Langston Hughes was designed to be the Black Heritage branch of Queens Library to the borough of Queens. It was not designed just to serve Corona - East Elmhurst. So our mission has always been borough wide, as opposed, as opposed to just community-wide. And that meant that the collections that the library primarily focused on, the Black Heritage Reference Center of Queens County, the largest circulating Black Heritage collection of any public library, definitely in New York state and from my travels and interaction with libraries around the country, the largest circulating public, the largest circulating Black Heritage collection of any public library of the country is found at Langston Hughes Library, of over 145. And probably more than that now more than 145,000 volumes of print and non-print materials on the black experience. Uh, other than many academic collections, of public libraries, Langston Hughes has the largest one.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=283.0,343.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: So, our community having grown up in Corona, East Elmhurst, I'm a resident of Corona, East Elmhurst. I've lived here, other than the times I've moved in and out in the military and travel to California for a few years. Corona, East Elmhurst has been home since I was four years old. So this is home and I know the community, and I know the, the generations of people who have come through the community and have been active in the community. So it transformed from a probably Eastern European community into an African-American or a Black community because of Black, Caribbean, Latino, Hispanic in the community, when I was growing up. And then around the 1985, 86, around that period, you started to see a major influx of Latino, Hispanic residents in the community. And you also started to see a transition of people who had lived in the community, elders, who had lived in the community now deciding to retire and move to the Carolinas and Florida and Georgia, going back home in essence from the great migration.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=343.0,413.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: And you started to see that major change in the community. And even today, it's even more multicultural now than it has ever been with Asian, Latino, Hispanic, Caribbean, African, East Indian, so this is a very multicultural community, but that doesn't mean that the focus of Langston Hughes has changed. We're still the Black Heritage branch for Queens Library, but at the same time, we have always based on that outreach and based on connections and interaction with the community, we have always provided programs and services that related to the total community, within the framework of the Black experience, because most of the people who are living in the neighborhoods now, part of their history and culture is related to the Black experience. So we've been able to do that and show them the connectedness so that we're not different, we we're parts of the same culture, but have never interacted with each other before. And then, those cultures that come from outside of the Black experience are learning about the Black experience and, the programs and services we had, have always been multicultural, art exhibits, musical concerts, literature programs even the students in the homework program have always been multicultural. So we're still providing the, serving the mission within Queens Library, but the fact that you have a modern setting for the library with a performance auditorium and a courtyard means you can have programs and activities and festivals and celebrations that invite the entire community. Uh, and they, and they found that this is an oasis within their community where they can feel comfortable and welcomed, and whether they speak English and not, Langston Hughes can be home to all of these people. Now that's a, that's a special setting in itself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=413.0,526.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Natalie Milbrodt: Yeah. And do do any specific stories come to mind when you think about a particular community member who was helped by the public library or by Langston Hughes in particular?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=526.0,539.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: There's, there's so many, there's like, like a thousand stories in the inner city. That's like Langston Hughes Library. I can think of one that always comes to mind is a young student in middle school who did not like to read. He only came to the library because his mother told him he had to come. He was in the homework program. He didn't really want to be, he didn't like school. He didn't like reading. And his, the director of the homework program would always have him come and sit down and talk to Mr. Jackson, you know, maybe Mr. Jackson can turn him around as a young man talking to an elder. And we would start talking and just to have conversation with him to calm him down. He wasn't a bad kid. He was a good kid, but he just didn't want to listen to the, to the tutors, didn't want to read.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=539.0,591.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: So we started talking and we somehow we got on the subject of Black history and I started telling him about all of the things in Black history that he probably didn't know, inventions that, that many of the disciplines, but the majority of the disciplines that are taught in school originate in the early African civilizations. That the universities in Timbuktu and other places on the continent prior to Europe were places of learning where mathematics, chemistry, physics, astronomy, architecture begin, and that got his attention. So we started looking at books on Black history and looking at things on inventions. And so, talking about the things that were invented, that are in his house, that he would never know anything about, unless he actually read a book and I would start pulling books off the little collection I had in my office.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=591.0,646.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: But then we'd go downstairs and I'd start walking through the collection. I'd start pulling books off the shelf that showed him all these things that we were talking about. And then he got interested and he started reading and that was what got him to start reading. I ran into this young man about maybe not even five years ago. He's, he's a grown man. He's got his own business now in Florida, he's got two or three young sons that he teaches. And he came to New York for a visit. He stopped by the library and he, he came in, he says, \"You probably don't remember it.\" And I remembered that little, I remembered the smile, but I couldn't quite remember why I remember who this was. And he said, \"can I sit?\" He sat in the office. He said, \"When I was a young man, I was in your homework program. And I didn't like to read.\" And as soon as he said that, I realized who it was, and he's probably like almost 50 years old now. And he said, and he started telling me the story of how I got him to want to read, and the curiosity about Black history and Black culture and inventions and all of these different things. And he said, \"You have, you have been the person that has opened up and door for me to want to learn and read. And I have not stopped. And I sit my sons down today and we have that same conversation and I have a library at home and all these books that I ordered, I ordered for my children so that they can inherit this collection and not have to wonder about who they are, where they came from, where our ancestors came from.\" So that's the one story that comes to mind.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=646.0,741.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: I think if there's another story, it would have to be the elders who would come to the library. And I would be featuring Langston Hughes celebration or I'd have Kwanzaa or a literature program about some author. And then they would tell me their stories. Having been in college when Langston Hughes would come to the college and take the books out of his trunk and have books talks and, and actually signed books and sell books with them. And, and I would read like, cause I always include Langston Hughes poetry in something that I'm doing, and they would tell me their stories about Langston Hughes, and then coming to New York and then migrating from the Caribbean and migrating from the South, like my parents did but why they came, what, what the great migration was and the transition of coming to New York and even migrating from the Bronx or Brooklyn or Harlem and moving to Queens and the difference in having a house in Queens and all of these different things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=741.0,797.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: So, I learned, I helped young people, but then the elders always helped me and gave me an understanding and opened up doors for me to make me even more curious about Black history and Black culture and how their stories relate to my generations stories and how we inherited responsibilities that they fought for. And many of them suffered under, so that we could have the privileges and rights that we have today. I inherited that from my elders as well. So I think it's always been a learning experience. And that's why I say when I, this started when this 125th anniversary started, and the call came out to people to, to record videos. I started writing because I'm a writer. So now, so I wrote my, my story and the more I wrote, the more I remembered. And the more I remembered, the more I realized how much I owe to Queens Library and to York College that combination of education and librarianship has just changed my life completely and became a more aware, more understanding, more, more of a reader than I used to be.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=797.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: And, and I'm a bookaholic, so I've have to accept that I'm a workaholic. I have to accept that. And that even, even today, the, the path that I've taken and the path that I've journey through, I'm still learning. I'm still growing and I'm still sharing with other people. That's why I won't give up teaching undergraduate at college. That's why I don't give up lecturing. Why I still serve on committees. Why I think it's a privilege to be a board, member of the Board of Trustees as the first former staff person and the first librarian on the Board of Trustees. I've been on other boards at Queens Public Television and Elmhurst Hospital, the Black Caucus of the America Library Association. So it's just means that we have, we inherit responsibilities with what we learned and what we grow from to, to grow into, to make a difference in the world.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=870.0,925.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: And one of the ways we can make a difference is being active. And that's why I label myself as an activist librarian instead of just a librarian, because I do so many things, and I mentor, so many committees and round tables that I participate in. It's just part of what we have to do. And the mentors that I've had in the profession, have always given me the charge that, you know, you, you are, you're not, you're not a regular person. You have a something in you that is always about giving and sharing and outreach. And, I just take that from my parents coming from Mississippi. And, I just, I just can't stop.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=925.0,970.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Natalie Milbrodt: I just love the way that you're a conduit, you know, where you're taking things that you're learning from elders and pushing them out to young people and to others. And I think that that kind of impact is just, amazing and something that we will never really be able to measure, but I'm sure that you have inspired so many people to learn and to have an interest in definitely reading and just understanding their own history and culture.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=970.0,996.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: I'm finding that out. One of my mentors told me that, you know, you're, we're we're vessels. We, what we learned and what we, you know, the formal education in the classroom, or the life lessons that you learned growing up, you're a vessel that these things don't come to you in a vacuum. You can't keep things like that to yourself. And it's like, one of my professors used to say, when we're talking about Black history, it's not a secret tell everybody. So that's what I've been doing, telling everybody. And if I've been able to inspire young people like Melvin, the brother that I talked about or, can carry on the tradition of my parents and my elders and my mentors, I see that as responsibility. So I'm willing to do that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=996.0,1045.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Natalie Milbrodt: So, looking now from your seat as a board member, and thinking about the library, maybe more in totality, what are some of your thoughts about what you'd like to see for the future of Queens Public Library?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=1045.0,1060.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: One of the things, and I mentioned this at the last trustee meeting, when we were going through capital projects, we were showing some of the forecasts of what libraries look like, that I'm really, really excited about is the design of libraries around the borough and, in my eyes, because I I'm still in and out the boroughs, Queens has the best, the most attractive libraries in the city of New York. I think New York Public is, is trying to coming up with a couple of new ones. Even Brooklyn Public is coming up with a new facade on some of theirs. But when you look at the numbers of libraries that it started, and it really started with Flushing, South Jamaica and Langston Hughes, back in the, in the late nineties. Uh, but when you look at Queens West, even with all the issues that it has, look at what Queens West is look at East Elmhurst, the new East Elmhurst Library that, that all the libraries that are being modified, renovated or built from scratch in the borough, are such magnets, for people that want to come in there to see what this is that they created. And Langston Hughes going from a two-story storefront on Northern Boulevard to the site that it has on the corner of 100th street that's progress. And it makes people want to come into the library. So that's the first thing that excites me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=1060.0,1147.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: The second of course, has to be the fact that this is Queens, New York and Queens. New York is such an encyclopedia of life stories from people from all over the world and how libraries have changed their lives. Uh, listening to some of the stories at the galas in the past that have been held at the Queens Museum and listened to the little boys and their parents, and new, fairly new immigrants to the borough and talk about what libraries have meant to them and how it's changed their lives. Libraries, that's why I opened up my, my narrative saying librarians and libraries are change agents and how they were our role is to change lives and to make a difference in the lives of those that we, that we catered to those that we serve. And even more importantly, the underserved and the unserved that we're always in the search for, who are we not serving? How do we reach those people that are not, that are not coming into the libraries and don't know all the things that we do. So that makes it, that makes it a challenge that makes it such a great profession.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=1147.0,1212.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: And I tell my students every, every semester that you are in you're in one of the most rewarding professions that you could possibly be in, because all of the skills, all of the experiences all of the trials and tribulations in your life, all of the things that you've learned, all the things that you're learning, everything that you learned from the time that you can speak and walk, you can use as a librarian, and you're going to use it with the different customers. Every day is going to be a rewarding day cause you're serving people every day. It's not the, it's not the same regiment over and over again that you see some professions have. How many, how many times do we do we interact with people and they say, Oh, I hate my job. I can't stand going to work every day. That's not going to happen. You're not going to have that as a librarian. You're not going to have that work in a library. This is a magical place to work. So I, I look forward to the future of libraries. And how many times have we gone through the, the discussion or the the the inkling that, you know, books? Oh, the electronic books gonna replace books. And the internet is going to replace the library. You won't need libraries in the future. And when I talked to my students about the community and serving, so you only call the police department when somebody broke in your house, you only call the fire department when your house is on fire.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=1212.0,1296.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: You only call the sanitation department when you need the streets cleaned from the snow, or you need your garbage cleaned up. But the library, you need the library all the time, the library serves everybody's needs all the time, bad weather, good weather, sunny weather, rainy weather, snow. The library is going to be a serving organization to everybody from the time that they're born until the time that they make that transition. So it's, when you talk about service to the community, you can't relate any of those other services to what we do on a regular day, on a daily basis as a library, that's a unique institution. So to be part of that tradition, I'm really proud of that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=1296.0,1338.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Natalie Milbrodt: That's beautiful. Thank you. So, anything else you want to add before we I'd like to have you read your, your statement that you wrote?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=1338.0,1346.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: Yeah. This is like a, like a chapter in a book when I, when I really looked at it, but I had to tell it my way and my way is to tell the story from day one. So...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=1346.0,1355.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Natalie Milbrodt: I'm glad I did. And I think that I'm going to leave the screen and just have you on screen to do it. Are you ready?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=1355.0,1362.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: All right. Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=1362.0,1366.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: Again, my name is Andrew Jackson, also known as Sekou Molefi Baako. I'm the Director Emeritus of Queens Library's Langston Hughes, Community Library and Cultural Center. And today, since 2017, I'm a member of the Board of Trustees of Queens Public Library. I wrote this statement entitled \"My legacy of service as an activist librarian at Queens Library's, Langston Hughes Community Library, and Cultural Center\" in response to the call for staff to express themselves and customers to express themselves on the occasion of the 125 Anniversary of Queens Library. And I read this statement that I've written.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=1366.0,1409.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: The American Library Association, cited libraries and librarians as \"change agents\" that transform lives in the communities they serve. When I look back at my adult life, I see Queens Public Library and the Langston Hughes community and Cultural Center. As my change agents. For both surely had a major impact on my professional and personal growth.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=1409.0,1433.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: Librarianship gave me direction and purpose and allowed me to grow as a cultural advocate. In my youth, I never considered librarianship as a career goal. In hindsight, I realize all my earlier experiences prepared me for my directorship and responsibilities at Langston Hughes. I can think of no more rewarding profession than that, of a librarian and no better place to work than Queens Library. In 2016, I retired as Executive Director at Langston Hughes after 36 years. Prior to my appointment in 1980, I served four years in the United States Air Force as an Administrative Specialist and honorably discharged in 1968 as a Staff Sergeant E-5. I held human resource positions with New York City's Human Resource Administration and Agency for Child Development. Each served me well with acquired work experience, develop job skills and managerial development.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=1433.0,1493.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: And during my seven years, seven and a half years in human resources, I attended evening classes at Baruch College City University of New York, majoring in business administration. The combined work experience and academic courses provided the perfect germinating experience for me to learn and grow. Afterwards for a few years, I worked in sales and customer service positions at a large Chevrolet dealership in Northern California. The unique history of Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center brings with a clear understanding that the conception of a community library that focused on the Black experience came from the residents of Corona, East Elmhurst in the mid 1960s. The concept was presented to Queens Library management, who realized the borough's African-American population was indeed under-served and in some ways, unserved, and that this fit into Queens Library's mission. Langston Hughes would serve as the host site for the Queens County's, extensive circulating Black heritage collection.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=1493.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: So our community was not solely Corona, East Elmhurst, but the entire borough of Queens. This special project fit within the guidelines of available federal dollars in 1968, known as the Library Services and Construction Act Title I. Under the auspices of Queens Library, the Board of Trustees of the Library Action Committee of Corona East Elmhurst, incorporated also called LAC, operated and managed Langston Hughes as a federally funded special project from 1969 to 1987. During this period, the LAC board was authorized to hire Corona, East Elmhurst residents, to fill staff positions at Langston Hughes. The librarian positions were filled by Queens Library. In August, 1980, I was offered the Assistant Manager position at Langston Hughes. As a lifelong resident of the community, my youth activism and business background were attractive to the board and deemed beneficial to the growth and development of their library. Although I had no prior experience with libraries, my background, personnel administration, staff supervision, job analysis, and formulating performance evaluations were desired skills.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=1560.0,1636.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: Due to family emergency, the library manager was forced to take a leave of absence, six months into my employment, And I served as acting library manager until the full search was conducted. I, along with other candidates applied for the permanent position. The board felt that I had performed well during my interim period, developed a good working relationship with the staff, had a vision for Langston Hughes future and offered me the permanent position in January, 1981. One of the unique features of the LAC Langston Hughes Library center as a special project at Queens Library was that the manager was not required to be an MLS degreed librarian, but be a local resident, have a relationship with the Corona East Elmhurst community and skills that would benefit and enhance the library. By 1983, I'd gained an understanding and appreciation for the uniqueness and mission of Langston Hughes. As a cultural institution, it focused on the Black experience with direct and ongoing community input and offered multiple programs and services designed to meet the educational, cultural, and informational needs of residents of all ages.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=1636.0,1711.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: To complete my undergrad studies, I enrolled at York College City University of New York in the evening/weekend program in 1983, earning my BS degree in business management in 1990. Initially I consider the master's degree in Black studies, but they're were no local graduate programs in that discipline. With urging and encouragement from my mentor, Dr. E.J Josey, I enrolled in the evening program at the graduate school of Library and Information Studies at Queens College City University of New York in 1983","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=1711.0,1993.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":", earning my MLS degree in 1996. In addition to developing librarian skills and a better understanding of librarianship as a profession, I gained a greater respect for the role and mission of libraries and the librarian to make a difference in the lives of library users, and for the community at large. Throughout my years of employment, Queens Library provided the autonomy, the flexibility and the opportunity to perform extensive outreach. My representation of Queens Library exposed wide variety of programs and services at Langston Hughes and our library system to all grades in public schools, the colleges and universities, city, state, and federal agencies, the New York police department, the New York Fire Department, and at New York City Department of Correction facilities, civic, and community organizations and churches. As a result of this visibility and exposure, I served on boards of directors at Queens Public Television, Renaissance charter school. On advisory boards at Elmhurst Hospital Center, Louis Latimer Museum and Louis Armstrong House museum, and co-chaired Queensborough president's African-American heritage committee from 1986 to the present. Through each I gave a voice and exposure of the librarian. Nationally, I carried the name and reputation of Queens Library and the Langston Hughes Library Center to each conference and meeting I attended and committee or board that I served on. My active participation in our profession, led me to be elected Vice President and President Elect, President and past president of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association from 2002 to 2008, and served on the Black Caucus executive board through 2016. I co-chaired the American Library Association's annual Martin Luther King Jr celebration from 2000 to present and served on the ALA task force on equity, diversity and inclusion.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=1993.0,5472.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: Locally, I served on York College President's Advisory Board from 1985 to 2015. And I'm now on the Queens College's Arts Advisory Commission since 2016. As a result of my experience and knowledge, I am a library consultant advisor in libraries in Fort Lauderdale, Sarasota, Florida, Raleigh, Durham, and Greensboro, North Carolina, at Roosevelt and Wyandanch libraries in Long Island. Having the autonomy and the flexibility to create an expand programming at Langston Hughes Cultural Arts program, I created all day cultural celebrations for greater exposure and audience development. The annual Langston Hughes Kwanzaa celebration started in December of 1985 and the annual Langston Hughes Celebration began in February, 1986. The Langston Hughes film series highlighted the library's extensive VHS and DVD collections, as well as independent films and discussions by filmmakers and film directors. Over an eight year period, I hosted the open mic night on the third Thursday of each month from 1991 to 1999. Each drew audiences and developed a following across the tri-state area for the free live musical performances, film screenings, history, and heritage lectures, artists exhibitions and crafts fairs, and in spring and summer months, we hosted outdoor craft fairs along sidewalk that grew into street fairs. Our craft vendors became part of the annual East Elmhurst, Corona Family Day events, each June sponsored by Council Member, Helen Marshall and Assemblyman Jeff Aubry. A primary responsibility of the Executive Director was to prepare, submit, and implement grants funded by the New York State Department of Education, the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. These grants funded the Black Heritage Reference Center of Queens County and the cultural arts program and the homework assistance program. Different than Friends of the Library, the LAC was a not-for-profit community-based organization with its own 501-C3 tax exempt status. These grant funds came directly to the Library Action Committee board and were separate from Queens Public Library, budgetED funding. This gave Langston Hughes a latitude of flexibility to submit its own grant applications and raise program funds.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=5472.0,5626.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: This set LAC apart from the Friends of the Library connected with many QBPL branch locations and whose fundraising was transmitted to the library system for disbursement. Another of my duties included the promotion of the library. Over the years, I used my creativity to design a wide variety of marketing items with the Langston Hughes Community Library and Culture Center and Black Heritage Reference Center logos that I designed for staff and supporters to use and wear. Items included, bookmarks pens, note cards, tote bags, caps, t-shirts sweatshirts, scarves, vests, jackets, shirts, eyeglass cleaner sheets and pocket calendars. Whenever possible, I supported Black businesses and vendors. Many librarians were envious of the autonomy within Queens Library, but from our inception Langston Hughes was created to be non-traditional and did not conform to the traditional practices and standards of librarianship. Several of today's library practices were conceived by Langston Hughes in our early years, such as a color-coded Dewey decimal system, paperback collections over hardbound books facing the book cover out on the shelve, over spine out, to attract the interest of library users, information referral services, combining cultural programs and workshops with library services to better serve the needs of the community, hosting an afterschool homework assistance program to serve local school children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=5626.0,5723.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: I remember mumblings at library meetings and hearing \"Well Langston Hughes isn't a real library, so they can do that kind of stuff.\" Langston Hughes was the first location in Queens Library system that included community in our name from its inception: the Langston Hughes Community Library and Culture Center. Funds raised went into the Library Action Committee budget to supplement our fundraising efforts. At the request of E.J Josey, I became a published author and essayist, with The Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a Double Edged Sword Against Illiteracy, an essay that appeared in the 1985 edition of the New York State Department of Education's publication The Bookmark. This was followed by Dr. Josey's second request to stand in for him and write the forward to the ninth edition of the African-American Almanac, in 2003, followed by the publishers request that I write the forward to their 10th edition in 2008.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=5723.0,5783.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: After I received my MLS degree, I did additional research and published an expanded version of my graduate research project in a ready reference book, entitled \"Queens Notes: Facts about the Forgotten Borough of Queens, New York\" in 2010. Since then numerous essays were published in the BCLA News on Black Caucus of the American Library Association events, and others on Black history. In 2006, \"If You Want to Learn the Secrets of A World, Read a Book\" was published in Patrick Oliver's collection of essays entitled \"Turn the Page, and You Don't Stop: Sharing Successful Chapters in our Lives with Youth\". In addition forwards include preface to Public Libraries by George D. Grant and in his book \"In Honor of: Libraries Named for African-Americans\" in 2011 and Claudette Spence's \"365 days of Liberation\", in 2020, I served as lead editor of the award-winning book, \"The 21st Century Black Librarian in America: Issues and Challenges\" in 2012, where my essay is the preface and the Need for Continued Activism in Black Librarianship, and Progressive Librarian published my tribute essay \"Memories of Dr. Miriam RG Braverman\" in 2016.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=5783.0,5871.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: Over the years, many awards and honors were served as a testament to my extensive community service. Several standout for that uniqueness. 2 poems: \"What's in a Name\" by Imperium and \"Sekounificance by George Edward Tait. Three portraits, one by Julia, Tann, a librarian at Queens Library and a former, Assistant Library Manager, Ping Hu Quinn and Kay Kellman, and a bust in my image commissioned by Corona East Elmhurst residents remains on second floor display at the Langston Hughes Community Library. As a result of my years of service and outreach, I was invited to serve as an adjunct at both of my Alma Maters, teaching Black Studies and Cultural Diversity in the Department of History, Philosophy and Anthropology at York College since 2001 and Library Science a the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College since 2007. Even in semi retirement, I continue to enlighten and educate young leaders of tomorrow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=5871.0,5938.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: What do Queens Library and the Langston Hughes Library mean to me? Everything! As we celebrate Queens Library's, 125 Anniversary, I applaud Queens Library's commitment to staff development and service beyond our, borough, that provides a fertile and supportive environment for staff to grow professionally and personally.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=5938.0,5960.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: My deepest appreciation to Doctor E.J. Josey Constance Cook, Gary Strong, Tom Alford, Jr., Jewel Nicholson, Charlyne Gadsden, Marian Glenn Straw, Evelyn Hall and Joan Cole for their leadership, their advice and mentoring throughout my career. Thank you Dr. Lenore Gall and Grace Lawrence and the LAC board members for their support and community representation over the years. A very special thanks to the past and present staff at Langston Hughes for their teamwork, their support and dedication to our mission and our purpose. Queens Borough president Melinda Katz appointed me to the Queens Library Board of Trustees, iIn 2017. I was honored to be the first librarian and first former staff member to serve as a Trustee at Queens Library. In this capacity, I offer my voice as a librarian, my staff experience and my commitment to the continued growth, development and legacy of our library system to serve this borough and its residents. My journey is not over yet. The journey continues. Thank you very much. Peace and blessings.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=5960.0,6040.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Natalie Milbrodt: Thank you so much, Andrew. I really appreciate you taking the time to record that for us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=6040.0,6046.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: Thank you. It's it's, it's an honor to be able to have something that is a life story to, to add to the Archives at Queens Library and the work that you're doing with the Queens Memory Project and to continue to be part of this Queens legacy and Queens Library's legacy on its 125th anniversary. Uh, look forward to being here for maybe 150th Anniversary.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=6046.0,6069.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Natalie Milbrodt: Yes, that sounds like a good plan. Thanks Andrew.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886#t=6069.0,6073.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43821/file/116886/transcript/34288/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Jackson: You're welcome. 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