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Good afternoon. My name is Adrienne Hawthorne and I am interviewing Ms. Sharon Banks on Tuesday, February 4th, 2021 [Ed. it was May 4th.] . By making this recording, we both consent to the use of our names, voices, images, and likeness by 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 program, 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 use of this interview and recording. Do you agree Ms. Banks?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1.0,72.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: I agree.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=72.0,74.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Excellent. Excellent. All right. So welcome to WebEx at Cambria Heights Community Library, such a pleasure to have this meeting with you to discuss your life and professional career here at Queens Library and ending your career at the Cambria Heights Community Library, where we worked together for - what was it? Two and a half years?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=74.0,109.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Yeah, two and a half.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=109.0,111.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Two and a half years. So, we have a few questions and we have a slide show that we want to go through to really exemplify what life was like here at Cambria Heights. Okay. All right. So, I'm going to let you introduce yourself and give a little talk about how you became a librarian.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=111.0,141.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Okay. So, all in all, I call Queens Public Library my home for 17 absolutely amazing years. Becoming a librarian was actually my mid-career transition. Considering my early experience with the library as a child, it's actually ironic that I eventually chose librarianship as a career path. As a child, my parents moved into a neighborhood that was in racial transition. This was in Chicago. I was nine years old. About a year after we had settled in, my mother took me to the library, which was located in the neighborhood park. After a couple of visits, she felt confident in allowing me to go to the library on my own. My first visit by myself, the librarian looked down at me and asked, \"what could you possibly want from here?\" Answer, \"a book.\" With no further conversation she returned to her desk. I thought it was a strange question since I was in a library, but I didn't dwell on the exchange.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=141.0,217.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: I simply wrote her off as a mean old lady, not much different than some of the teachers I had. However, as I grew older, the library became my second home and I was actually in the library when I heard that Dr. Martin Luther King had been assassinated. This, of course, was some years later. A handful of years later than that, I was a page at my university library. Hated it. There was nothing more boring than returning the same books to the same shelves, day after day, and I remember thinking that I would never, ever consider working in a library [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=217.0,264.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: I was a page in my college library too, and I absolutely loved it. I would put on the little plastic gloves, get my truck, put my headphone, and I have my Malcolm X tapes [laughs] and it was closed stacks, and it'd be about 200 books on the truck. And I just be gone, just shelving and learning. I loved it [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=264.0,291.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: We had two such totally different experiences [laughs]. But then, what happened? Well, you know, life catches up with life. So, the funny thing is that, although I never considered the library as a place to work, I was always in a library. I had my card and frequently would lose myself in the stacks, looking for something new and interesting. And this was true for the years before I was married, before I had children, I was just always in a library. And yes, I found myself occasionally replacing books on the shelves, out of old habits and training. However, once I became a mom, it was off to the library at all times. Over the years, I slowly began considering working here, but there was one major problem. No one seemed to enjoy what they were doing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=291.0,358.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: I was pretty good about not needing reference assistance, but I took note of how other people were served. I never heard a greeting and rarely saw a smile. As time went by and the children grew older, I knew I had to transition from a job to a career. One night, I happened to visit Central Library with my son. I looked around and made a decision. I would apply. And if hired, I would make it my business to enjoy what I was doing and to make whoever came to me for assistance, glad they stopped at my desk and the rest, as they say, is history.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=358.0,404.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: So you acquired your MLS before joining the library or during?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=404.0,414.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: During.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=414.0,414.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Oh, wow. So how did that whole interview process happen?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=414.0,421.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Oh, now that's a story in and of itself. Okay. So at that time, I was working at Holy Trinity Community Church and School, and I had befriended the mom of one of our students, because our sons were similar ages. I had glanced at her file and I knew that she worked for the library, but I never had reason to peruse the file any further, just something you stuck in the back of your mind. But once I made a decision to apply, I said, \"well, let me go find out what library she works at and talk to her.\" And lo and behold, it wasn't so much that she worked at a community library, but she worked in human resources. I never realized that until that moment. So when I call her, the first thing she asked is, \"Oh Lord, what has Philip done now?\" And I said, \"leave your baby alone. He's fine.\" I said, \"this call, isn't about Philip. This is about me. How do I join Queens Library?\" And she shepherded me through the entire process. I do remember that I told whoever the team was who interviewed me, that I was not looking to career hop. I said, \"all my life I've been vested in libraries as a customer, as a patron. You hire me, I promise you two things. One, I will give you the best that I have to give. And two, I will retire from here.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=421.0,538.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: And that was part of that interview.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=538.0,542.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: They saw stability, they saw stability and said, okay, we like stability [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=542.0,550.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: And the fact that I was willing to give the best that I had to offer. And I think that that really is important. And I did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=550.0,562.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yeah, cause I remember when, you know, my first master's was in getting certified to teach social studies, but I kept having bad flashbacks to being in the school setting with teachers who weren't happy and I never wanted to be that kind of teacher. And it just always gnawed at me. And I didn't go to - even though I did an internship for library science, I just felt like teaching - I had totally been preparing myself to teach, you know. Ultimately, I became a librarian and it was the best decision for me. Yeah. Okay. So the next area, the next question - can you share a story of QPL having a positive impact on someone's life?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=562.0,635.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Well, let me put it this way, Cambria had Queens Library's first Teen Center and the Teen Center had literally just opened at the time when I came on board here at Cambria, and during the height of the school year, the teen Center served up to a hundred students per day, 7th to 12th grade in a relatively small environment. And those teens were served by being offered a palate of programs, literally from A to Z. While at the same time, because of our teen center coordinator, Ms. Gayle Smith, and our youth counselors, being able to give those young people to individualize attention that they needed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=635.0,715.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Most adults look at the teens who come to the library, any library, but certainly Cambria because we have so many teens, as something that they would rather not be around. We forget we were once teens. We forget that we were giddy and giggly and moody, and sometimes we were wise and many times we were foolish and all of that could happen within a 20 minute timeframe. It was after the school year, the academic year, was over and the teens had a chance to sit and talk with Ms. Smith, just in a frame of mind that they started sharing the stories of what the Center meant to them. And I don't know if you remember, but when the Teen Center first opened, we had a music studio, and we had someone on staff who taught basic keyboarding, who taught basic studio work, and the teens actually created their own CD.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=715.0,804.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: One young lady, in particular, said, \"I would come to this library every day, knowing that I could lose myself in the music studio. It was rough getting through school. I had so many issues and I knew that when I went home, I was going to have to deal with some things that I didn't want to deal with with my family. It was that time, those few hours, between the end of the school day and my leaving to go home, that I felt my best.\" And actually her story was replicated in so many different ways, on so many different levels by the other teens. And that's so important because your teen years are so formative and you're emerging from being the caterpillar of childhood, but you're not yet the butterfly of adulthood. And we served our teens. In fact, I'm sure you remember that we were the first library to offer a QB - what am I looking for? What's the word -","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=804.0,883.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: QB for gay bisexual. We had a club specifically for those teens, but the thing is - the LGBTQ - Sorry about that. The LGBTQ club. But now the thing with that club is that it wasn't a place where teens went into a corner and congregated and talked about the issues of their sexuality. It was where teens could gather and know that they had something in common with each other, that they didn't have with the other teens, but they could still talk about all the other dynamics of their life in a safe environment. And when you consider how small that square footage is for the number of young people that we serve, and yet it was always a safe space. We worked hard to keep it a safe space for all teens who entered. It was their center. And they respected that. And I'm really hoping that when the library completely reopens after this pandemic, that the Teen Center opens fully staffed on the same day that the rest of the library opens because our teens are in need of that center, more so now than ever before.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=883.0,987.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: This is so true. Yeah. They talk about the rise of the suicides and everything, and, you know, we're really going to have to work overtime to make sure that the transition back -","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=987.0,1002.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Is a safe transition.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1002.0,1002.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Right. Yes. Excellent. Excellent. What are your hopes for the future of QPL?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1002.0,1016.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Oh, to keep doing what they're doing, just do more of it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1016.0,1023.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: [Laughs] Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1023.0,1023.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Especially in the community libraries. For instance, take Cambria. I would love if we had three floors instead of two. I think it's absolutely wonderful that they took the lower floor and changed it from a custodial storeroom to a Teen Center. That was an amazing use of space. And one more thing, that Teen Center came about because of impact of the community and the friends of Cambria Heights. They worked a long time to advocate for the teen center on behalf of their elected officials. But, as you know, because I see that you're sitting in the Adult Reference Area, when you walk into the library as beautiful as it is, there's the adult area that's wide open, and then there's the Children's Area that is wide open and the noise echoes and ricochets.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1023.0,1099.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: I'm sure the open concept was popular at the time when this library was built, but it didn't take into consideration the multi-use factor. So I would love a third floor that would have additional meeting rooms, program rooms, and most importantly a quiet room, so that you can go read, contemplate. You could even be a student who needs a quiet place to do homework with the understanding that that's exactly what it is, but easily another floor. And what's true at Cambria, can be replicated throughout any community library. Our libraries are too small. The square footage is too sparse for the number of people who we serve, and who we have the capability of serving. So, an enlargement or a complete rebuild out of our community library, that's what I would love to see.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1099.0,1167.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Truly. I was thinking the whole time, the third floor for the children, make that the Children's Space. But, I think that's a better use that, that you have your quiet spaces and meeting rooms upstairs because the children don't need to be climbing up and down stairs and the elevator situation [laughs]. It's always a lot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1167.0,1190.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: It's easier access to the children and their parents. The other thing - yes, I guess you can gather by now that out of all of the age groups, I'm most partial towards teens. But one of the things that I noticed is so many families, teen families, they came with their younger siblings and their siblings were ably taken care of by our children's librarians and by the STACKS program, by the STACKS staff and the teens had their space downstairs. And the parents knew that they could send all of their children to the library and they were in a safe environment and they were protected. So, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1190.0,1240.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: So how do you negotiate? You know, there's always this, we're not babysitters that, you know, some, some librarians like to echo, but at the same time we serve the community. And, um, that's part of it is that we are a safe haven, that we are a safe space for families. And I don't- it wasn't a part of my experience as a child. I did not use the public library really ever, and I think it might be due to the fact that my mom grew up in Alabama during segregation, we're first gen New Yorkers. And it was a long walk from my home to the library. Our elementary schools, well packed with books, but my family has always had subscriptions- encyclopedias, and Highlights and Ebony, Jet, all the black magazines were always in our home and Scholastic subscriptions. So we always had books coming in. I think it must go back to that. Then when I got out of college, that's when I realized that there was a public library.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1240.0,1340.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Not that I never went because I did have to go on occasion, but it was not a part of my routine. My school libraries were always well-stocked, beautifully stocked [unclear]. And it wasn't until I decided I was going to go to library school that I learned about summer reading club. Just had no idea, had no idea these things were going on. And, um, you know, I went to library school, uh, 1998 to '99, '97 to '99, something like that, you know? So yeah, it was a different kind of a reality check for me. I think it's so funny and strange, you know, I just didn't grow up in the library. We had books coming into the home. We had magazines, all the black publications came into the home, you know, so that's how we did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1340.0,1408.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: You said something that I just want to touch back on. And that is librarians who feel that they are not babysitters. Remember when I started and I said, I used to come to the library and it seemed like nobody was happy doing what they were doing. And it's certainly rubbed off on me as an adult. We are front line staff for serving the community. I'm sorry, if you feel that you are a babysitter because you're surrounded by a gaggle of children who all want your time and attention, but trust me, you are making far more money per hour than any babysitter ever has.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1408.0,1476.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Ever dreamt of.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1476.0,1477.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: So that's, that's my one. Two: You serve the community. You serve the community how the community needs to be served within the boundaries of your job description. We don't expect you to give injections of medication because that's not your training. But you can sit and spend a few minutes and talk to a distraught child and give that child some time and attention.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1477.0,1514.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1514.0,1515.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: You can read a book to a group of children. You can teach middle school children how to use a computer for something other than Facebook. This all falls within the parameter of your job. I have had librarians, thankfully, not at Cambria, but at other libraries who really thought that they were the cat's meow. And I've had to sit down and say, when a customer walks into a library, the first thing they notice is how clean is the library.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1515.0,1565.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1565.0,1566.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: And is it cluttered? Is it in disarray, is it orderly? I said, as a librarian you don't clean, the custodian cleans. The page is the person who generally returns the books to the shelves. To the community, everybody who works in a library is a librarian.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1566.0,1598.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: [Laughs] So true.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1598.0,1599.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Yeah so your [unclear], MLS, or MLIS, or whatever acronym degree you have earned, actually means squat to the customer if they cannot find the materials, if you cannot help them find the materials, because it hasn't been shelved, or if the garbage can is overflowing. So actually, in many respects, the custodian is just as important as the librarian. The page is just as important as the librarian, because to the community, we are all team library.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1599.0,1644.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1644.0,1645.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: But don't get it twisted. You with your degree and that attitude, you're not nearly the professional that you think you are. So I've had that conversation on more than one occasion. And then I'll give you one more flip on that and we can go onto something else.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1645.0,1671.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1671.0,1671.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: So I said, when I was in college, I hated being a page. That turned out actually to be the best experience I could have earned prior to being a staffer because I had to train pages. And I remember in particular, one young man who, Oh, he was giving much attitude. He was new. This job was not what he thought it was going to be. And he thought it was beneath him. And I had asked him to do a section and I walked away so that I could sit at the desk and check his attitude from half a room away. And, you know, when he finished pretty much [unclear] book where he thought they should go, I walked over to him and I said, \"Honey, you're new. This is your first couple of days on the job.\" I said, \"And already, I'm about to fire you.\" I said, \"Because your attitude says that you think this job is beneath you, but when somebody walks into the library, they need to know where the materials are or the librarian needs to know where the materials are. That's how we serve the public. We're a library. That's what we do. And the page is a person who makes all that possible. So actually you are one of the most important people in this library.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1671.0,1771.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1771.0,1772.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: And I said, \"I need you to understand that.\" And I said, \"And I'm telling you that because I was a page.\" And I said, \"I will never ever ask you to do anything that I will not do.\" I said, \"So I will ask you to put a book on the shelf. I will ask you to move magazines around. But when a mentally ill customer comes and stands in front of both of us and urinates on the floor, I will not ask you to clean up.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1772.0,1809.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1809.0,1809.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: I will do that. So I suggest you do what I ask you to do and put a smile on your face and say, 'Ms. Banks, is there anything else I can do?' Otherwise, I promise you're not going to last beyond tomorrow. He stayed with us a long time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1809.0,1827.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yeah that's- once they get that reality check, you know, every position is valued. Every position has a meaning, a purpose. And, you know, we need to just respect what we do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1827.0,1841.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Became one of the best pages. Had him train newbies and he repeats pretty much what I told him and I just laugh. [laughter]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1841.0,1851.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: So that's the best part. You get to put your stamp on a young person coming up. I was a children's librarian for 15 years prior to becoming an adult service librarian. You know, I always say, I promised that when my children aged out of the children's room, I was aging out of the children's room. So I was- since I had two boys, five years apart, that was a long time in the children's room [laughs], but it was the best. I really enjoyed my time with the babies, the preschoolers, oh, every age group, every age group. And now I'm able to have a lot of fun with the adults and turning our time together into therapeutic time. You know, I love doing the arts and crafts.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1851.0,1909.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: It's amazing what I saw you do with arts and adults. And I remember not too long after you set up your craft program, we ended up having groups who would bring their mentally disabled clients to the library as a field trip. And it wasn't necessarily the best fit because you couldn't give the time and attention to people, other people who came to the library to enjoy a crafts program. And rather than tell them not to come back, which is what I know some libraries would have done, the question was, how can we make this work? How can we make this work for all of us? And we had certain dates that were set aside, and we said, you know, call and make a reservation. So we know, so we can accommodate you. You know, not that we don't want you to come during the regular craft program, but this way we can spend the time that we need to spend with your group so that they feel comfortable, a warm and welcome environment. And for some of them, it was just a matter of them sitting at a table and staring out in space. For others, rudimentary crafts, but, almost like children, they still demanded your time and attention. So just the fact that you sat down and figured that out, that it didn't have to be one or the other, let's figure out how we can make it work. That's what stays with me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=1909.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2040.0,2041.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: When I think about you as a colleague, that I had the privilege of managing. Most days.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2041.0,2051.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: [Laughs] We both do the big eyes on that. [Laughter]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2051.0,2061.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: We can rattle on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2061.0,2062.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yeah. And we had our very first art show. We had three, at least three participants who were, you know, other able bodied people that were able to participate. And they were so proud. Their family came with them to the art exhibit. And, you know, so that's the rewarding part, you know, when you're folding in the entire community, not just the higher functioning members of the community, you know, and it was great. It was great. And then there were groups that were coming from across county and from Brooklyn! [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2062.0,2109.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Yes, yes, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2109.0,2109.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: #NAME?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2109.0,2117.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Was kind of crazy there for a minute.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2117.0,2118.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: It was really a lot but-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2118.0,2121.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: It got kind of crazy, but we worked through it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2121.0,2124.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: We worked through it. And, you know, as a children's librarian, when I worked in another city, one of my assignments was to work with the autistic center. And so I have become accustomed to working with autistic children. And, you know, we just get a lot out of each other when I see when they show me that they want to do and we can do, and we do it together, you know. So every experience builds upon the next. And so that's what made it easy for me to transition to working with adults, you know? Yeah. So our next, um, is there anything else you'd like to share? You can go through your list of prepared and-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2124.0,2182.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Oh! Let's see, what else do I, what else would I like to-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2182.0,2186.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Because we do have a beautiful slideshow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2186.0,2188.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: We do. Um, you know what, why don't we start the slideshow? And some of what I may have in terms of prepared remarks will be apt as we go through the slideshow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2188.0,2234.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Oh I accidentally muted myself. [Laughs] Okay. So here we have our 125th celebration. So here- share about this?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2234.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Yes. Okay. So I was eight years at the Pomonok Library as their manager, and it was a very interesting experience. Um, for one thing, the library was located about a block or so- we were in the- library was located in the local eight electrical union. I believe it was [unclear] B E w. So we were not a standalone library. We were actually on the ground floor of an office building across the street from a shopping mall. And on the other side of the mall was the 103rd police precinct, as well as the assembly person's office.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2250.0,2313.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Okay. Hold on one minute. Hold on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2313.0,2315.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Sure","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2315.0,2321.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Okay. Let me see. Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2321.0,2337.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: So because the library was in such close proximity to the community hall, it was very easy to be active outside the walls of the library and to make an impact within the community. So I was blessed enough, fortunate enough to receive recognition several times throughout my tenure at Pomonok. And what you're looking at is a certificate of special congressional recognition that was given to me by Representative Grace Ming, who still actively serves her community, serves our community well. In fact, has been very prophetic in terms of serving her community and all that is happening in the Asian community as a result, them being singled out in a hateful way. And she was saying even a year, more than a year ago, there's trouble brewing and my community needs to be protected, for the protected. So that was special.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2337.0,2424.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Uh, Queens Library, Queens Public Library, at one point offered a group of young managers, none of us have been in management for more than a handful of years, an opportunity to attend classes given by Long Island University, actually it was the Palmer Institute under Long Island University, so that we had an opportunity to earn a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Public Library Administration. It was actually grad school light. It was an intensive year of classes and assignments. The library underwrote the cost of the class and gave us excuse time so that we could make the best out of it. And it was with the intent that we would take what we learned and be able to use it in terms of our own management skills. To this day, I am so glad that I was given that opportunity to be part of that program. It was amazing. And I would like to think that I put it to good use.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2424.0,2514.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Actually, this is recognition that I received in March of this year by council person, [unclear] Miller, recognizing community service. And when he called me up, he specifically cited the work that the Cambria Heights library did as an example of my providing outstanding community service through the library. So yeah, that was really kind of special. That made me smile. I did the happy dance. So the year after Hurricane Sandy, we had an influx of teens to the Pomonok Library who worked everyone's nerves. Before it was all over, I had held meetings with library administration, the locally elected, the 103rd precinct, reps from local eight electrical union, who, coincidentally, was our landlord. And I- not just one meeting, I was in meetings with these groups of people at all times. It was, it was awful, just straight up. It was awful. However, just like the teens came, after a year, the teens left. Once the storm blew over, we no longer had the issues that we had. People were glad to come back to the library again, even our teams who had stayed away because they didn't like the new crew who had come in. Once all of that was over and done with and we return to normalcy, I received this well earned, yes, it was, well earned community service award. And as I pointed out, what I really needed was a drink, but yes, I was very honored and humbled because, to be honest, there were times when I thought that I was failing my community, failing in my library, just because we had so many problems with the teens that year, but we held tough. We got through it. And I was recognized for my service to the community that year.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2514.0,2665.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Graduation day, a very happy day indeed. I earned my ML, which is my Masters of Library and Information Science degree from Queens College. And it could not have happened without the support of my husband, Kenneth Hart, and our two teens at the time, Malcolm and Marla. But yeah. Although not inscribed, this Thomas Blackshear statuette was presented to me- excuse me- by the Northeast Queens chapter of the NAACP at their first Essence of a Woman award ceremony. Talk about feeling blessed and highly favored. Very appreciative to them. I used to attend their meetings, I would attend their programs, I would arrange for the NAACP to offer programs in the library. And I would have to say the high point of that day wasn't so much that my family attended because I knew they would, it wasn't so much about the staff attending because I knew some staff members would give up their time on a Saturday to see me honored. I was very appreciative, but what really struck at my heartstrings were the teens who came and sat and presented me with a Teddy bear that I still have. And I'm sorry, I didn't think to give you a picture of me holding my Teddy bear, the youth counselors, and- I must have had three or four teens in the audience- that was a total surprise. And yeah, I was feeling blessed and highly favored as that event.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2665.0,2784.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Nice. This is such a beautiful statuette. It's just amazing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2784.0,2791.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Absolutely. And you know what happened? At the last minute something happened and they thought they were going to be inscribed and they couldn't get them inscribed. But no, that was their first Essence of a Woman ceremony. I know they had at least one other, I don't know if they still continue the tradition, but I was among the first cohort. So, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2791.0,2815.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Nice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2815.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Okay. So let me spend a couple of minutes and talk about the friends of Pomonok.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2820.0,2830.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"New Speaker: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2830.0,2830.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: So the friends group, as many of you may know who may hear this interview, they are our community activists on behalf of the library. They're our cheerleaders. They come together, they raise money for the library. They offer programs that offer support in any way possible. And just like our community, each community library is different in terms of how it serves a community, each friend's group is different. At Pomonok, I had a group of very politically active friends and it's from them that I really learned and got to know the elected officials of Pomonok. And actually they taught me what it was to be an engaged citizen. They taught me how I was going to retire, how I was going to utilize my time in retirement. So they were my tribe, the village that takes care of all of us, they were my village. One of the things that we did was our first ever- and I don't know that it's been replicated- joint fundraising event, where several libraries came together and raised funds on behalf of their respective libraries with one event.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2830.0,2939.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: So we had a dress down, get gorgeous gala at Anton's and we raised money on behalf of, I believe it was LeFrak City, Flushing, ourselves, and there was one other- Oh, gosh, gosh, gosh, gosh, LeFrak city, lefrak city, flushing, and I forgot the fourth one. Um, and I'm trying to see if it's on this flyer. I'm not sure that it is, and I apologize, but you know, memory goes over time. But we raised between $1500 and $2,000 for each of the libraries that participated in this project. And we had an absolutely amazing evening. Yeah. That's what the friends did at Pomonok. Oh gosh!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=2939.0,3004.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: This is a real blast to the past. 1984! Look at you, you're so glamorous here. I just love this picture.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3004.0,3019.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Oh my my my my my. So we're, we're going outside the boundaries of Queens Library. We're going to be like that, huh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3019.0,3023.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Only because you know, our past informs our future and we don't even realize it [unclear] times.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3023.0,3031.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Okay. So the [unclear] bank's report was a hybrid newsletter and mail order catalog, all art and artifacts celebrating the African-American community. We probably stayed in business long enough for me to lose all my money, but it was a wonderful experience. It was a way I got to meet a whole cadre of artists that were very popular in the community during that mid eighties period. It was my first entrepreneurial venture and there again, my husband, Kenneth and I- I mean, just about everything I've done in life, Kenneth has been there with me, but this we produced the SD bank's report. We were very proud of it. It was a learning experience but it actually was a harbinger for things that I did later on in life. And even for things that I did in the library. So yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3031.0,3119.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: American Visions is a magazine, a culture magazine, that was published during that same time. And, Adrienne, I'm not sure how you ended up- I gave this to you for some reason. It must've been when we were putting together, um-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3119.0,3137.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: The quilt club.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3137.0,3139.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Your quilting club. You know, just to show some of the history of quilting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3139.0,3147.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3147.0,3148.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Well, I've been a strong believer of connecting- you connect the dots.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3148.0,3154.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3154.0,3154.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: You connect the cultural dots. American visions is no longer published and I think it's to our community deficit, that we no longer have.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3154.0,3165.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: The date here is 1986, June, 1986. And this was a very special issue. It covers the quilts, you know, there's the quilters of Gee's Bend Alabama, that quilt community has had their quilts in museums all around the world. And this is one that focuses on the quilting community in Mississippi and quilting has just really been, you know, preserving and recording. These memories are so important and little did we know that we would be quilting in Cambria-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3165.0,3213.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: And telling our stories.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3213.0,3214.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: And telling our stories. Yep. So here, another article in this May/June issue, '86, they're talking about Juneteenth. And as you know, over the past year, um, so many state and local governments have made Juneteenth a state level holiday, a community holiday. And, you know, Juneteenth goes all the way back to 1865 and the end of the Civil War, when this community in Texas was the last to receive the word that enslaved time was over, and they got the word two years later. And since then there's been annual celebrations of Juneteenth, and this has shown some communities celebrate gatherings, of Miss Juneteenth. They see the young lady with her crown and cape, beautiful musicians. And so, you know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3214.0,3297.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: And the thing about Juneteenth, I mean, besides the fact that it was freedom delayed in Texas for two years, that meant that the plantations and large farms in Texas got two years of free labor, two years of harvest from people who were no longer enslaved. The only people who knew that were the slave owners and they made those people work for two years before word got out to them that they were free. So many travesties and injustice around our slave years. But that was, I guess, one of the final galling of travesties that they worked the harvest for two years longer than they had to as slaves.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3297.0,3359.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Then here we are with the black ethnic collectibles.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3359.0,3363.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Yes. So now we've moved up a few more years from the '84, '86. And by the way, the [unclear] bank's report, I started that the year when I gave birth to my son and in '86 was the year that I gave birth to my daughter. So now we're into the late eighties, early nineties. And that period was marked by the entire country being taken over by a wave of collecting. People were collecting everything. People were collecting dolls and symbols and black memorabilia, and cookie jars, depression glass. It was just something that overtook the country. And it didn't have to be related to any specific culture. If there was anything, if you had a box full of paperclips, there was somebody who was collecting paper clips who could give you the history of paperclips. It was just that crazy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3363.0,3441.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3441.0,3442.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: But it was also during this time that Jeanette Carson, who was in Maryland, created Black Ethnic Collectibles Magazine and the Black Memorabilia Collectors Association, which I was instrumental in forming the New York chapter of the organization. And so both the newsletter that the New York chapter put out, as well as the Black Ethnic Collectibles Magazine, I contributed a column called Tomorrow's Collectibles Today, and very simply I could not afford what memorabilia was going for because we used to have the Black Memorabilia show and I couldn't afford $150 for a tablecloth or several hundred dollars, if not more, for authentic slave shackles, but it was wonderful knowing people, meeting people and knowing people, who did have collections that large. There is a woman in Staten Island who has the largest private collection of black memorabilia, probably in this country. But what I knew is that over time, anything can accumulate, can acquire value. So I simply, as Booker T Washington would say, I put down my bucket where I was, and I started collecting things that were available in the community at that time that people were throwing away. It had no value to them, but that's what makes an item collectible going forward.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3442.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: If you're going to have 50,000 items 25 years from now, that's not really a collectible. That's really junk. What makes it a collectible is the cultural and historical value attached to it, whether it's a reproduction or an original. Scarcity, and scarcity ranks right up there. So I started collecting potato chip bags. I started collecting canned food from companies that produced food with images of African-Americans on them. My children were young, so we collected Wheaties boxes. Anything that I could find that I could afford, I collected. I would attend the shows and I would buy things that I could afford. But the funny thing is those things are still in my house. They're still on my shelves. They're still giving me pleasure all of these many years later. And yes, they cost a heck of a lot later.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3570.0,3649.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: They're valued a heck of a lot more now than when I purchased them then, but I just had a blast learning as I went. This was something that was totally new to me. The only thing that I knew about images of blacks is what I had seen- the derogatory images. Just to be in a space and there were so many positive images to be at a space, and there were the negative images, but we could put our own story to those images. That's when I started really hanging out at the Schomburg. I wanted to be where I could go to an exhibit, to a program, and see my culture on display. And that love of culture has never left me. So back at Pomonok, like I said, eight years there so I do have a number of Pomonok stories. Library started an initiative called Health Link some years ago. And we were one of the first libraries to actually take the concept of health link, which was providing community awareness of our health issues and how to engage the community in their own health and healthy well-being. And we started with cancer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3649.0,3760.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: How do you create a cancer awareness program that's engaging? And we did it by collaborating with the Pomonok senior center and we offered quilting classes at both the library and the senior center. And to be a member of the quilting class meant that you were going to- you said that you would create at least one cancer awareness block. If you could create more than one, great, but many of our quilters had never quilted before. So it took time to learn how to make a block. Some of our quilters had been quilting for years. It didn't matter because those who were experienced helped those who were inexperienced. And we all came along at the same time. It was during this time that we discovered the cancer awareness colors for the other cancers. Everybody knew about pink, but who knew about white and black? Who knew that there's a separate combination color for men who have breast cancer? Who even knew that men had breast cancer? These were the things that we learned in this program. As we quilted, we actually had cancer advocates and professionals from the hospital, from Queens hospital, their cancer center, and other organizations, come and give us lectures as we quilted. We told our quilters, \"You're quilting these blocks in memory of someone, or in honor of a cancer survivor. Be prepared to tell their stories.\" And this book that you see are the stories that were contributed by the quilters about what their blocks meant. We took field trips. In fact, I think someone told me later on that the library's insurance didn't cover adult field trips or something like that. And so, you know, I just kept my mouth shut because we took field trips to the cancer center at Queens hospital. We created three quilts. We donated one to the cancer center. We donated one to the senior center and the library kept one. We had a public program that I believe was actually held at the Queens hospital auditorium. We ended up exhibiting the quilts at Flushing Library. I mean, the project took on a life of its own. One of the funders of the program had a symposium and we were able not only to send a Queens staffer, but the master quilter from the senior center, all expenses paid, to the symposium to present our stories. So Queens Library enriches people's lives on so many different levels in so many different ways. But that was a year long experience that- I may in older age forget the details and be kind of fuzzy around the edges, but I will never ever forget the impact that this project had. We had people who came back to the library three and four years later talking about the year that they spent with us with this project.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=3760.0,4014.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: You had a lot of participants, as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4014.0,4016.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: We had a lot of participants because it was both the senior center and the library. It was amazing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4016.0,4024.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Mm Hmm. So in 2015, you joined us here at Cambria. You became the branch manager of the Cambria Heights Community Library. Over 1500 programs provided by the adult teen and children's librarians and teen centers [unclear]. I know it was well over- I did what you said. I went into [unclear] to try to capture the information, but it was over 200 pages of- I just, I put in those parameters, April, 2015 to July, 2017. And it was just too wieldy to try to number. I know you said that you had did over 1500 just with the teen center [crosstalk]. And I had programs at least three to four programs a week, every week [laughter]. So yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4024.0,4091.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: And our children's librarians, they had nonstop program. We had nonstop programs at Cambria.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4091.0,4100.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4100.0,4101.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: There's no way anybody could ever say that we did not serve our community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4101.0,4109.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Mhm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4109.0,4109.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: And, I think the one thing that I really liked best about our programs is that we would have receptions after our receptions-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4109.0,4121.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4121.0,4121.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: #NAME?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4121.0,4130.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4130.0,4130.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: And there's something special about being in a library at night. It's a whole different vibe.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4130.0,4137.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4137.0,4137.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Um, but yeah, no, we had- we did a lot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4137.0,4142.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: We did a lot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4142.0,4144.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: It could be six months of staying in bed after I retired, [crosstalk]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4144.0,4152.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yes. What do you call those roller skates on around here, we were always busy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4152.0,4162.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Always up and down.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4162.0,4166.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4166.0,4166.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: But, you know what? The one thing that I try to instill in the staff is that every customer who walks through our doors, no matter how they felt when they walked in, they should leave our library feeling better than they felt before they entered the library. And I would have to say with our amazing staff, that happened. People greeted- we greeted our customers by name with smiles. \"Hey, how you doing?\" We took ownership of the care and protection of the children. We chastised as much as we could. We called in parents when the children did not behave, but parents knew that we always had their children's best interests at heart. Seniors who came in, my heart ached for the seniors who could no longer come to the library because the library was closed. Seniors would just come in because it was a welcoming space. We have been a welcoming library. We were a welcoming library under my tenure. And I say that without bragging. And I trust that we are still a welcoming library.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4166.0,4276.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: That we are. Our adult reading room area would have tutors with their charge and adults occupying the same space. This reading room- easily, 20, 30 people crammed around these few desks, you know, in shifts [laughs]. It was always a workout trying to keep everybody happy. But, yeah. This was a very busy library. We're in pandemic time right now, but we are going to open up on Monday for limited browsing. So you get 30 minutes to browse, 30 minutes to use the computers. And so we're trying, we're inching back. We're inching back. We have to get back to serving the community, but back in our program archives- yeah. One of the first things we did was that Eat Light, Eat Right workshop, where we talked about, you know, food choices and things of that nature. And then we implemented the, um, well, this is summer '86, but the title of our programming was Adult Activity Hour, Adult Craft Hour. And I just always loved the beautiful flyers that the library produced, you know, very colorful. We had musicians. We had so many concerts, it was just always so nice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4276.0,4387.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: We had concerts. Yes, we did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4387.0,4391.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Mhm. And these are some of the craft activities that I facilitated for our adult customers- jewelry, crochet, knitting, acrylic, watercolor, stencilings, zentangle, calligraphy, adult coloring pages. We had binders full of adult coloring pages, card making, vision boards, origami. I mean, we just did so much in our adult craft hours, every Thursday. And then adult activity hour, that started Wednesday mornings, 10:30. And after a couple of years, we just switched the name to our quilt club, you know, because we began quilting. But this particular festival, our first big festival was November, December, 2016, the Festival an Koulè. So it featured our Haitian friends of the library, our Haitian art communities in Queens. And we have four branches, our assistant branch manager at the time, Mr. Reggie St. Fort, who is now a branch manager at South Hollis, spearheaded putting together this festival and with the support of Ms. Banks, the staff, we had a beautiful exhibit.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4391.0,4498.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: This was actually Reggie's brainchild, 'cause he's an artist also, and it just really worked out well. And I understand they had a second festival last year or a year before last, a Caribbean Arts Festival.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4498.0,4516.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4516.0,4517.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Built on this. So they set the stage. So I hope that's a tradition.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4517.0,4527.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: I do too. We were able to- it was called the Caribbean Arts Festival and it was open to all artists. You know, I did paint pouring and I had four pieces in the exhibit as well. I'm American I'm, you know, child of the South [laughs]. And, so [unclear] was Migrations of Color. 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So we started with the vision boards sessions in our arts and craft classes. And that was always a big thing, vision boards and dream, and vision casting and just, you know, goal setting. You know, you have to create a plan to set a goal, create your action steps, and give yourself a timetable to do it. Everything's achievable. Then we had this Sankofa discussion and multimedia club. And because Cambria is in the heart of the diaspora, we have our African Caribbean community, and we have Continental Africans all live here in Cambria. And we felt it was very important. The president of our friends club is Angela St. Claire. You know, she's a world traveler and this gave us an opportunity to bring in our collections [laughs] to share and talk about, a little show and tell, and then I would get YouTube videos that I felt fit the theme, you see, from February to August. You know, we had Africans in the United States, Africans in the Caribbean, Africans in Europe and Africa, the Heartland. So each group has a unique story, a unique telling of what life is like from the African perspective. And we wanted to make sure that we capture that and that we come together and be able to learn and grow and learn from each other's stories. So that's what the Sankofa- return to your past and fetch it, it's in a [unclear] symbol, right? Am I right, Ms. [unclear]? I'm calling you Ms. [unclear] [laughter]. Ms. [unclear] is one of our Ghanaian librarians [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4562.0,4734.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Okay. Ms. Banks, Sankofa-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4734.0,4739.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: You look back to move forward.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4739.0,4743.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Uh-huh. Then our next program in February, you can share about this, our Broken Hearts Week.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4743.0,4751.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Okay so, that was an interesting- I'll be honest. This was a program that, when we were first told that the libraries had to do something around broken hearts during the week of Valentine's day, I- it just didn't resonate with me. I just thought why broken hearts during Valentine's day? And I wonder would we get participation? Well, we did, we got amazing participation with people coming in and detailing, I think, detailing the strengths that they derived from their broken hearts. And they were interviewed, much like you're interviewing me. They were interviewed for the Queens Memory Project and the stories all were stories of resilience. Some of them were actually funny, especially when it revolved around teenage broken hearts. But one program, I mean, one interview was haunting and that was the story of a woman who lost her son. I believe she was in Europe and her son was in DC and she had him cremated in DC because it was just too expensive to transport his body back North. And she had just received his ashes the week before her interview. And when she said that, one of the teams was assisting us with the interviewing and we were all crying. I mean, that just moved us to such an extent. Um, so you realize that the broken hearts were not necessarily broken because of failed relationships, but they were broken because, for whatever reason, they couldn't be continued, at least not in the same way they were before. But, so that turned out to be one of the most significant programs that we did that I participated in. And I was very happy that we did it. Ah, the craft artist extraordinaire. So you've gone from the activity hour and the club you all are now the craft artists extraordinare.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4751.0,4934.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: [laughs] Yes. And this was our first, well, no, this wasn't our first, this was our second or third evening art exhibit. And we always had sparkling cider and hor d'oeuvres and beautiful jazz music playing. We turned the whole first floor into an exhibit space. We had our- this was our first time showcasing our quilts. Yeah. Had done the quilts-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4934.0,4972.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: But you know what, Adrienne?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4972.0,4973.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yeah?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4973.0,4974.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: It was probably the first time that many people had their art exhibited.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4974.0,4980.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Exactly.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4980.0,4981.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: That they could actually claim the descriptor of artist and know that it applied to them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4981.0,4996.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Right. Yes, this says here the second, because what happened was we did it so late. We did it in October, 2015 and then 2016, we started quilting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=4996.0,5008.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5008.0,5009.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: And so we needed more, a little more time to get all the quilts done. 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And I am so proud of what we were able to create and what we will continue.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5018.0,5051.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yes. We will continue. I just love our logo. It's simple, but you see there's a little Statue of Liberty there. It's so funny. It's cute. I love it. And we made this amazing flower wall [laughs]. My sorority, Theta Iota Omega, has a biennial cotillion. And so the 2016 cotillion, we came together for many weeks and created big, beautiful flowers, all- and, you know, soft pink, egg shell.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5051.0,5097.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: That must have been beautiful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5097.0,5097.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: It was amazing. It was amazing. I said, I've got to turnkey this into my arts and craft class.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5097.0,5105.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Yes, yes, yes [unclear].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5105.0,5109.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: So we worked our fingers to the bone to create this beautiful flower wall that hung up until, what was that, 2019. So it hung up in the branch for two years. And here we have, we have our friends of the library.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5109.0,5127.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Yup.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5127.0,5127.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Ms. Seals, Ms. Sinclair, and our resident author, poet, Ms. Jacqueline Carr.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5127.0,5141.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Indeed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5141.0,5141.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: And here are my two beautiful Haitian grandmas that I love so much. They are so talented. So talented. The lady on the right, they both are named Marie, but she was a seamstress and she taught us how to sew. I have always had this fear of the sewing machine. It just seemed like such a complicated thing [laughs]. So she helped me with that. And here we have our board of directors and former branch manager, Mr. Andrew Jackson-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5141.0,5185.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: This is the director of the Langston Hughes-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5185.0,5188.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yes, director of Langston Hughes Public Library, and our assistant manager, Mr. Reggie St. Fort.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5188.0,5197.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5197.0,5202.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: And this is just showing how, you know, we made these flowers, we were all working. Hands working. I always say, don't worry, I'm just getting the hands working [laughs]. And here we have showing off the quilts that were made.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5202.0,5228.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5228.0,5229.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Now this quilt, this quilt on the left side is Christmas quilt. This was our first group quilt. And we each made a quilt. This is a Ninja star quilt with, you know, the Christmas colors, the Holly berries and whatnot. Now on the right, one of our master quilters in the class- this was, I forgot the exact name of it, but basically the story represents the middle passage and how the people chose to go overboard than to get taken away during the middle passage. So they are- they came off the ship and they're now under the sea.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5229.0,5283.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: This dreads, the Catherine wheels, [unclear] wheels, I think it's called. Yeah. But it's also called Catherine wheels. This artist's just phenomenal. She also did a lot of, well, we'll just say, you know, she's a phenomenal quilter. Now this quilt on the far right is these little round discs, I forgot the name of it, but it's- every one is different and is handmade and put together. So, just more examples of our quilts on display.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5283.0,5329.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: How long did you have them up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5329.0,5331.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: These quilts were up for at least three, four months. Now this, this is an Afghan, these are crocheted squares. And our library customer and friend, Ms. Vicky- these squares, granny squares or crocheted squares, her mother used to make them and just make the square and put the square in a bag in a pile. And Vicky would ask her, \"Mom, when are you going to put these things together?\" And her mom would reply, \"I'm not doing it, you're going to do it.\" And then after her mother passed away and they were cleaning out the house, she found this huge carpenter bag full of crocheted squares. Naturally, she put the squares together and she was able to make an Afghan for each of her siblings. And she still had these three leftover.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5331.0,5405.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Nice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5405.0,5405.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: That's such a phenomenal, phenomenal story, a legacy that she can share with her family and a memory she can share with her family. And she also made this Afghan for her son. Now on the left side is a bag that I made [laughs], you know, and they call that the African flower motif. And so there's seven of them and I crocheted that. And here's more of our wares. We had a lady that was a doll maker, paper crafts, this tree, we had crocheted little birds and put them in this little tree [laughs] and sewing projects and beautiful food, our hors d'oeuvres over here. We had such a great time and you can see- Oh, I forgot. I wish I could remember the name of these little round discs, but that's how she did it. She made them, put them together. [Crosstalk] Excuse me?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5405.0,5478.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Are they called pinwheels?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5478.0,5480.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Uh-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5480.0,5482.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Maybe not.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5482.0,5483.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: I can't, but that does sound familiar. I just can't pull the name out for some reason, but this is Ms. Jackson. She is one of the Cambria craft artists that got us going from the beginning. She was having some medical challenges, but she would take that Access-A-Ride out to Manhattan, to art classes all over Manhattan, and she'd bring that knowledge back and teach us here at Cambria.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5483.0,5522.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Amazing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5522.0,5522.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yeah. Yeah. Ms. Phyllis Jackson. And so our last art exhibit, we did a whole monument to her. We had a lot of her work that her relative brought in for us to feature. And it was phenomenal. Ms. Phyllis Jackson, a Cambria craft artist extraordinare. Oops. All right. And so this is a nice fun activity with the tiles. You get the little white tiles, Sharpie pen, and alcohol, 91% alcohol, and you can make marbleized effects. And we did that. We had them on display. So that's always a fun activity. Then in July, a celebration of Southeast Queens authors. And Ms. Banks, you want to talk about this, how and why you pulled this together?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5522.0,5600.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: I pulled that together because I had never seen it done at least not on the community level, but when you think about it, what is a library without its books and its authors. You have to have- well, if you're gonna have one, you're gonna have the other. And I knew that there were so many authors in Southeast Queens over the years and I just wanted to- I wanted our library to be the one to celebrate them. And by then I knew I was going to retire, so I wanted it to be the last event before my retirement. If nothing else, it was how I felt about them for giving me a lifetime of enjoyment and edification from all of the books that I've read from the time I was a child. And if you'll see the second artist from the top left was an eight year old author. So we actually did have a child author. The celebration included all day panels. The authors participated in different panels. They were each saluted by their elected officials through proclamations. Dennis Walcott, the library CEO, came and acknowledged, saluted, and congratulated them. It was just a wonderful day of celebration and yes, they were interviewed for the Queens Memory Project. They felt honored, they should have. Many of them were new authors. Many of them by the same token had been writing for years. I did not care if they were celebrated as bestselling authors from coast to coast, that wasn't the point. They are ours and they needed to be acknowledged, celebrated, and thanked for what they contribute to our community from- children, some of them were children's authors. One woman wrote a college admissions manual. We had authors who wrote fiction, we had authors who wrote books of empowerment. We just have a wide cross-section. [crosstalk]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5600.0,5774.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: -Poetry. And that was held on Saturday, July 22nd?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5774.0,5782.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5782.0,5783.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: I believe it was on Friday, July 28th, I said goodbye.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5783.0,5795.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: That was it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5795.0,5795.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: I'm done.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5795.0,5795.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: But you set us up, you set us up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5795.0,5802.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: But! There was one program that I had booked before I had determined my retirement date and knowing how this program was going to be structured, I remember asking you, would you take on ownership of seeing the program through, because if not, I totally understood and I would have canceled the program, but you said that you would. And so, basically, it was my going back 30 some years to when I was in the Black Memorabilia Movement and we had an amazing collection of black memorabilia. We're bringing the collectibles up to date and what you see there are actually part and parcel of my collection of collectibles over the years. Unfortunately, you got sick. If I'm not mistaken, something happened. And you weren't there that Saturday. And all of that hard work that you put into making the program happen, you weren't there to actually witness it. And I was devastated because you earned that one. 'Cause I know what it is to put together a memorabilia show like that. It takes a lot of time and going back and forth, but it was a fantastic show. The doll on the left, that's still some of my collection. I actually got that down at a depression glass show and not very many African-Americans collect depression glass. So I purchased the doll and the foregoing, a slide that we just saw, I had purchased the table cloth. Now, remember me saying that back in the eighties, you could spend $150 on something like a tablecloth. So the backdrop story for this is that the two women who had these items for sale got nervous when they realized that I was at the show and I was inquiring about the different Afrocentric art pieces that I saw. And it's funny, they actually- one lady was stammering and, about this, and she didn't mean for it to be disrespectful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5802.0,5982.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: And I just let her go on and on and on and on. And I finally agreed with her that she should remove it from the selling table because of a depiction of pickaninnies and mammies, what have you. The same thing as the doll, my big head doll, you know, I said, you know, the distorted features, that's not how we look, big head. And really, I just think that they are offensive and I will help you, you know. I will take them with me so that no one else will be subject to what, even now, you agree could be offensive. I said, well, I do believe in giving you something for the fact that you had them here and it's a selling show. So I think I paid $18 for the doll. And I think maybe $20 or $25 for the tablecloth had no, I did not feel guilty at all, not in the least bit. It was my culture that I was collecting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=5982.0,6078.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Exactly. This tablecloth is amazing. Wow. It's so hard for people to believe and understand what this culture was like, what this society was like back, you know, prior to the civil rights era. And even now. It's still just, I don't know, it's some sort of programming that we will deny what's actually happening. You know, it's so weird.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6078.0,6114.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Yeah. [unclear] But they are both treasured pieces in my collection.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6114.0,6120.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6120.0,6121.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Encyclopedia of black collectibles. And it was during this time in the eighties and nineties, that a slew of books were published on collecting black collectibles. And in fact, now these books themselves are collected-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6121.0,6138.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Collectibles. Yeah. So you want to talk about this operation push?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6138.0,6145.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Okay. Um, I was born and raised in Chicago and during the late sixties, my mom would take me to see Reverend Jesse Jackson. This was after Dr. King's assassination. And Jesse was, or Reverend Jackson, was in charge of operation breadbasket, which was the economic end of the SCLC, I believe that was now in charge of the movement that Dr. King left behind. And every Saturday we would go to the operation push meetings, much like, here in Harlem, people go to the National Action Network meetings that are held.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6145.0,6202.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: When I was growing up- When I was a young woman, you know, the early years, 21, 18 to 25, I guess you would say, I call those my Brooklyn and Harlem days when I used to go up to- I used to call it first world on Sundays. And that was over, it was up near City College. They had the African community education, Dr. Leonard Jeffries. And so they had that going on. And then in Brooklyn, on Wednesdays we'd be at the slave theater, a lot of community lecture series, you know, that just went on and then there was- what do you call them? Oh, what's that group name? Um, Oh man. Check 'em or [unclear] 'em. And the, uh, Oh man. I can't remember, but my Brooklyn days [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6202.0,6262.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: But there was so much and then they had the East-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6262.0,6264.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yes! Lecture series.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6264.0,6269.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Well, what happened is that for any number of reasons- Oh, so then I came to New York. I was only supposed to be in New York for a year to go back to Chicago. Long story, never happened. But I began working with Operation Push, whose office at that time was in Harlem. One, because I believed that what Reverend Jackson was doing to it became a connecting link between my mother and I, because she was still active in Chicago. I was not active in New York. And at some point, the office, which was held just a door or two away from the Apollo theater, was closed and Reverend Jackson relocated the New York chapter to New Rochelle. Reverend Calvin G Samson at Shiloh Baptist Church undertook the stewardship and it became Operation Push Westchester. I was on their initial board and their initial secretary and really helped to pull the chapter together. So at the time of my resignation from the chapter, they gave me a plaque of appreciation and acknowledgement at the annual banquet that we had in honor of Reverend Jackson. All I can say is great days, wonderful memories, but yeah. Um, it was a heady time to be in New York. That's all I can say during those days. And it still is. I'll let you take over on this one.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6269.0,6381.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Okay. Well, this here, there in that exhibit, there were the Collecting Our Culture, the name of the exhibit that you have put together, they had these theater posters. Yeah. So I just, you know, I'm big into aviation, black pilots of America, Tuskegee airmen. So this is the flying ACE sensation of the year. Let me see if I can find a date on this. I can't find the date, but, you know, just looking at the clothing and the uniform, you know it was way back [laughs], probably the forties. And then this other poster coming to this theater. It's this black gold, a Norman studio presents thrilling epic of Oil Fields with all colored cast. One of the true stories of living colored examples, a smashing photo play co-starring and it's cast down there. So it was just such an amazing thing with people, what people collect-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6381.0,6459.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Yes, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6459.0,6459.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: You know, and here's Ms. Barbara Scott, these are her items, the colored waiting room, this slave shackles, that was her book, the black collectibles. And you see the iron with the little iron stand and the washboard just amazing, you know. And this is a quilt that she has down there. And another one of our participants collected black baseball league memorabilia. So I love this picture with, I think this is Josh Gibson? Is that Josh Gibson?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6459.0,6506.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: I believe so.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6506.0,6506.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: I just love the angle, you know, his shoes. Yeah. Oh, this is Josh Gibson. That might've been Satchel Paige. Yeah. This is Bix that's right. Yep. Amazing time. Satchel Paige, yeah. So that was Satchel Paige sitting on the ground. His cleats out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6506.0,6538.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: One of the finest baseball players ever produced.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6538.0,6542.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Now the interesting thing is they're going to fold the Negro League into the American Baseball League, the [unclear]. So that's going to be interesting","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6542.0,6559.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: To say the least.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6559.0,6562.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: [Laughs] That's going to be interesting. And here we have a newsletter, the Queens Magazine, Queens Library Magazine, and you're featured for the celebration of Southeast Queens authors. So want to share about this?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6562.0,6584.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Um, there's not a whole lot to share. They interviewed me before I actually retired. So that was my Swan song. But you just had a chance to see what the flavor of the day was like. And we allowed the authors to have their selling tables. And so, yeah, they went home happy. They went home really happy. They were happy. I was thrilled to death. Um, I felt that I could say goodbye and farewell with a large part no tears.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6584.0,6629.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: No tears. And we had our local elected official.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6629.0,6634.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: We had Senator Comrie and Dennis Walcott-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6634.0,6644.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: And our CEO Mr. Walcott. So we had beautiful representation that day. It was awesome.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6644.0,6650.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Yeah. It was pretty nice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6650.0,6652.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: And the work, the efforts didn't stop there. You made sure we had wonderful programs for the fall. So that's right before this genealogy, Saturday, October 14th. After that, I started teaching genealogy in the branch and I continue to see what I look forward to doing when we go back to full time, or, you know, full participation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6652.0,6683.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: The libraries are getting ready to open.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6683.0,6685.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yes, yes. And there it is! That's all folks. But we do have to say one thing, we want you to say Happy Anniversary Queens Library! [crosstalk] One more time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6685.0,6703.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sharon Banks: Happy Anniversary Queens Library! So happy to be part of the journey.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6703.0,6714.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362/transcript/35864/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Awesome. Thank you. Thank you so much. And I'm going to stop our recording. I'm going to stop sharing. And then I'm going to stop the recording.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/69761/file/154362#t=6714.0,6728.128"}]}]}]}