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I am the Senior Librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection. And it's my pleasure to be sitting here today with Giovanna Mannino, who at the time of her retirement with the library in 2015 was the Director of Central Library Services, which I had the pleasure of serving under her for a number of years while she was in that position. Today is January 17th, 2024, and we are recording from the Octavia Lab at Central Library. So Giovanna, to get started, can you tell me what year you started with the system? And if you can just give a brief rundown of the different titles and positions you had during your career with the Los Angeles Public Library?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3.329,48.269"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Sure. I actually started in 1974 as a 20-hour messenger clerk at the San Pedro Branch. And I had been a library user since I was five years old. That was my home branch, and it was kind of a fluke that I applied. At the time, I was a junior at UCLA and an English major, not sure what career I wanted. Within about six months of being there and watching the children's librarian, I thought, this is the perfect job for me. And I was so happy. And I served there as a messenger clerk until 1977 when I was hired as a children's librarian at the Junipero Serra branch. It was the old branch on, I think it was 42nd and Broadway Place. And I was there for a year, and then I was asked to become the children's librarian at the Exposition Park Branch. That was the one that was then located right across from SC [USC] on Vermont. And they had moved the regional branch from Vermont Square to Exposition Park. And they had a vacancy, and so I worked there for about three years. Betsy Hoage was my supervisor, and I loved it. It was a wonderful branch to work at, busy regional branch. And then they had an opening at the San Pedro Branch, which was my home branch, a mile from my home. And I applied, and I was a children's librarian there for about 23 years. And I really loved it. And to be honest, I probably thought I was going to retire as a children's librarian there. It was just a joyful job. A lot of work because it was busy. We had 20 schools. We did a lot of outreach. And do you want me to talk about what those kinds of things that we did at that point?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=49.242,188.614"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, absolutely. Sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=189.16,190.639"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e So we...and I worked with Emma Rublow. She was my partner children's librarian. She was half-time. I hadn't been there very long when, you know, they had all of the cuts post Prop 13 when everyone was worried about being on the layoff list. And my position was cut to half-time. So I was then half-time and doing some, you know, sub work and so on. But we did tons of school visiting, lots of programming. We were one of the...I think we were one of the three pilot GAB {Grandparents and Books] branches, had about 17 GAB volunteers. Had a very close relationship with the Friends of the Library who were extremely generous and funded lots of wonderful cultural programs for the kids. We had...I partnered with the San Pedro Youth Coalition. I was on their board and the San Pedro Boys and Girls Club and we established a tutoring center in our meeting room after school. And I was also involved with Art to Grow On. So we had art classes for the kids and then...and we had the school art shows because these were parent volunteers who did art classes for the kids, four big projects a year. And we had big art shows at the library which brought in teachers and parents from all the different schools. And then we...let's see, what else did we do? Just lots of different innovative programs. And it was...I didn't actually take the senior exam for about 17 years. And then the thing that became appealing to me was, about being a senior, was the ability to shape how your staff and your branch deliver service to a community. Because I was really big always on community outreach and customer service. And so I did take the senior exam and in, I think it was 2000, I promoted to senior librarian at the Mark Twain Branch. And at one point, there was a separate Southern and Central Region but they had been consolidated at that point. And so Janine Goodale was my area manager and she was great. I mean, I really appreciated the really wonderful senior training that she gave. So this was in the middle of the building project. So there was lots of movement in the three and a half years that I was a senior librarian. I went to Mark Twain and I had six months to close the building, the collection, prepare the community for the demolition of the branch because they were building a new branch in its place. And so we did that and then after we were closed, I was sent to the Angeles Mesa Branch and I was there, I think it was about a year or so. And I just loved it, it was wonderful, great staff, it was really fun to work with the Friends Groups, kind of revitalized the collection there because the Angeles Mesa Branch, I don't know if it's still true, but they had one of the largest African-American populations of all the branches in the system. And the collection didn't really reflect that. And so, there was a lot of weeding that needed to be done and a lot of purchasing of popular materials that kind of spoke to the community and doing more programming and outreach. And I got to work with Jené Brown who was a children's librarian there. And so I worked there and then I got moved to the Jefferson Branch because they were closed, the building was being renovated, expanded, and Gladys Cole, the senior librarian had just retired. So, I had about four months to bring the staff from Mark Twain which was still closed and staff had been reassigned everywhere. And we were at the Jefferson Branch getting that collection and the branch and the staff ready to serve the public when they reopened. And that was, you know, you have new staff, old staff, you've got staff from two different branches and I was also actually the senior librarian still at the Angeles Mesa Branch. So, we opened and then no sooner had we opened at Jefferson, then I and the Mark Twain Branch staff got moved back to Mark Twain, to get the building, the collection ready to reopen in the new building which was really beautiful and establish a friends group there. And so that, you know, I was able to gain a lot of really interesting experience, you know, working with the building. You had punch lists, you were working constantly with building office with facilities and so on on and doing a lot of outreach in the community to let them know what was coming and so they would be excited about it. And it was wonderful and I love working there. And then I got this call out of the blue which I think it was Betsy Hoage called on behalf of Pat Kiefer, Joan Bartell, or Steve Newcomer asking if I would be interested in taking a position as an Acting Principal Librarian in ITC Adult Services. And I was kind of stunned and it was really hard to leave but it sounded like an opportunity I shouldn't pass up. And I'm still very nostalgic about all the staff that I worked with, you know, at Mark Twain and all the other branches. But this was very interesting and a part of the reason they needed to fill that position was because Virginia Loe who was just an extraordinary trainer for the staff had gotten a promotion and she was the Librarian III in the Training Office. So they needed someone, not to be a trainer per se because it would be hard to fill Virginia's shoes, but to coordinate training and still offer training. And I did that for 15 months and then I was also assigned to oversee Adult Services, Multilingual Services, the CARL Support Office, and so on. And I got the unenviable task of working with CARL, our ILS TLC, to develop OSA which was, is it still, everyone's still using OSA, the Online Selection Assistant for book selection? And, you know, this was a challenge because that meant eventually your ordering was going to be online which was a big new thing for branch staff. We were all used to having book inspection which was, I think, considered archaic by many library systems, certainly by our vendors and by Administration. And remember that, you know, staffing was really tight and you had to, you know, branch staff have to be away. They had to pay for mileage. They had to pay for parking and all of those things. And as somebody who really loved going to book inspection, especially as a children's librarian because in a branch you really wanted to see the material, to know what was tailored to your community, what would move, what wouldn't move. And so that was a long process. It required creating a flow chart of selection for all three levels including, you know, because it all started with Central Library, you know, and their selection. And developing a flow chart, working with TLC, working with trying to learn as much as I could from Acquisitions, from all of the coordinators who managed it, from, you know, from Central Library and developing this product which was, you know, kind of primitive in its open, in its, you know, initial. It needed a lot, I should say, for it to replace book inspection. You needed to have reviews and so on. And so eventually it added little by little but I'm sure it was a painful process for some, you know, for a lot of librarians to transition to that process for book inspection.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=191.14,787.315"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e And just to clarify, so book inspection, because I started at the tail end of it. There's actually a room full of physical books that librarians could come thumb through and look at. And so I don't think I realized that the online ordering system was designed specifically to eliminate that process.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=787.74,808.988"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. And to streamline the whole selection process, you know, ordering and everything. Because then it, you know, before it was manually done and then they were adding it, going through these paper sheets to tally up quantities for, you know, of each title, for each branch and so on. So, you know, it, I mean, it really greatly increased the efficiency. So I had to present it at order meetings, you know, all the different levels and train, do conduct 23 training sessions and troubleshoot because there was a lot, you know, I'd be getting calls all the time, how do I, you know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=809.1,850.029"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e And do you recall what year OSA went live?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=850.54,853.87"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e I, let me think. Okay. I would say probably about 2008, 2007. I think so because it was before, I mean, before I came to Central. So I'm thinking it was in that time period, 2008, 2000... Susan Kent was still here, I believe. And so there was that. So there was OSA, there was implementing e-cards, implementing e-media. Those are projects I got to spearhead, working with vendors, tutor.com and all of those kinds of things. And then also the, I think when Fontayne [Holmes] was City Librarian, they wanted a fully RFID branch as a pilot branch and that was when the Silver Lake Branch was being built. So I was able to, I was in charge of that. And of course, working extremely closely with the fabulous ITC staff. I mean, with, of course, Matthew, who's really our MVP. I mean, he was instrumental and so helpful and so patient and so knowledgeable. And every one of those TLC and, not only TLC, but every project we did in ITC, which is now Emerging Technologies, of course.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=855.904,965.608"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e And just to clarify that, that's Matthew Mattson who's been with us forever, thank goodness, and is our webmaster amongst many, many hats.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=965.66,972.849"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e He's the best. He really is. He","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=973.9,976.02"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e really is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=976.463,976.685"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. I'm so incredibly grateful to him. And what else? Oh, online fine payments, which he worked closely, you know, closely with. Throughout the CARL - all of that CARL worked closely with. Try to learn as much as I could because this was not my area. I mean, I was, it was a massive learning curve and nothing, you know, it's uncomfortable with branches. You know, I felt like, and I should, you know, after 28 years, you kind of have it down, you know what you're doing. And then to jump from that to ITC was very, it was challenging and uncomfortable because, you know, you're appointed to a position where you're supposed to be leading people but you don't, you have so much to learn, so much. And so, I'm so grateful. Well, Steve Newcomer was great. He was my mentor in ITC. He was the one who really hired me. And he was extremely supportive and, you know, very smart, extremely, extremely bright. And then, you know, CARL's support office, Lynne Henrichsen, Andy [Vuong], James Van Gerpen, you know, our network manager, and I, you know, Cataloging, you know, Ani [Boyadjian], Keith Chaffee, Joyce Albers, Pat Cuesta, all of those people who were doing so much, you know, were very generous with their time and very patient with me while I was learning. And I really appreciate it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=976.9,1090.448"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, and I think having, you know, because I did work under you for a number of years, and we'll get to CLS, but I do think you always had the ability to identify the strengths of your staff and really tap into them and trust them. And you were always willing to admit when you didn't know something. And so, I always felt that was a very, I always thought you were a very strong leader because you were never trying to prove that you knew everything and were always very quick to rely on the expertise of the staff. And I think that went a long way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=1091.481,1121.466"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, thank you, Christina. I'm trying to think what else. There was just, there was so much so fast going on during that period of time. We implemented, we transitioned from a new ILS platform within TLC to CARL-X. And I had to manage the contract and work with CARL and identify issues and bug fixes. And that was not the most joyful of experiences, but it was certainly an education, which I appreciated. I really encourage people, you know, don't ever be afraid to take on a new challenge because it's an opportunity to learn something and to learn from, you know, wonderful people around you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=1121.92,1173.442"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e And how long were you in that position?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=1175.58,1177.268"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e I think it was, I was in ITC for about seven years. So, I think it was about three years as Acting Principal. And there were a lot of Actings because, as we all know, because of, yeah, for years actually, because of, you know, budget shortfalls and so on. And then I was appointed to, the Principal II Assistant Director in ITC. And that was a few years, I can't remember exactly how many. And then came the, you know, the financial downturn, to put it mildly, and ERIP, the Early Retirement Incentive Program. And at that point, there was, you know, just a massive exodus from the library and particularly from the administrative team. So, the Director and the Assistant Director of Branches retired. The Director of Central Library, Anne Conner, retired. I'm trying to think who else retired. I think one of the Assistant City Librarians retired. And so, basically, we're kind of, the Director and Assistant Director of HR retired. It was crazy, really. And there are very few of us left, and I was appointed, at that time, Acting Director of Central Library, which I'm sure many of the staff must have been horrified. I mean, I didn't know them, they didn't know me, and thought, oh my, you know, wow. You know, it was, because the three Divisions have very different cultures and so on, and, you know, I'm sure that was a very difficult transition for the staff. And I always, having worked in branches for so long and on a busy reference desk, especially at San Pedro, I just always had so much admiration for the Central Library staff. They were the go-to guys, because remember, for the longest time, we didn't have all these online resources. We didn't have the reference collections, even in the regional branches that Central had. And we called a lot, calling on the expertise for patrons at the desk, and so on, and, you know, I just, you know, I really, I really admired them, and appreciated their expertise and their knowledge. And so, again, it was a massive learning curve, and, you know, I tried my best to, you know, to learn as much as I could about every Subject Department and their processes, and, you know, meet the staff and learn to know the staff, which was really, you know, really appreciated. You know, you got, you were all wonderful, really. And then, you know, we had layoffs, which was so painful to watch these-I mean, you know, they had the lists. I know, I just remembered all of the tension that came from that, even back to the Prop 13 days, when they had layoff lists, and you were just waiting to be told. But here, you know, we were, I was given, you know, the Divisions were given the list of who was to be laid off, and I sat with a lot of the Seniors, and it was so hard for them, and so hard for the people coming, and you just, your heart was broken for them, you know, especially those who were really invested, you know, we had librarians, we had MCs who were in library school, and it was tough. And you know, so staff was reduced, staff had to be reassigned, which was hard. It's not as easy as going from branch to branch, which is still a difficult transition. But when you have these collections you're devoted to, and you know, and the staff you work with, and then you have to be moved around to cover, and we were, then we closed on Mondays. And I remember trying to work out a solution where, you know, we, Central Library, as you well know, serves the whole system. And what is it? I think equivalent of a whole branch gets moved every day around the system and people really relied on the collection. And the router was huge in every department.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=1177.48,1512.833"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e And the router is the list of books that other branches, people at branches are requesting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=1513.139,1518.174"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, that's correct, thank you. And so, I pitched the idea of letting the staff rotate in to work one Monday a month, and then they would have Saturday off, or Tuesday off, whatever they, you know, whatever they preferred, so that they could have one weekend off a month, and, but more importantly, we were able to keep the router moving, and get these books moving, and providing better service. And I would come in and do it once a month as well. It was so eye-opening, because people don't realize, you know, they think, oh, you have all these obscure titles on the shelf. They go out. They go out to branches, and it was so interesting to me to see that, and, you know, I got a chance to get to know the staff better, and so on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=1518.18,1579.45"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e And it's, the router's really hard work, too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=1580.982,1582.929"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e It is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=1583.659,1584.062"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Because I had never done it before that time period, and I remember thinking, oh, I think I'd rather just work every Saturday than have to do this, because it's hard work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=1584.659,1591.672"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e We try to, you know, once in a while, have a pizza party or something, or bring in donuts or refreshments, and, you know, I mean, whatever you could do to kind of boost morale during that period. But, you know, then Measure L passed about a year, I think it was 2011. It was 2011. And it was like, oh, wow, happy days are here again, and, you know, eventually, so Monday's staffing got restored, you know, in phases. We were able to open on Mondays again, and it was, you know, it was good. It was really good. And, you know, book budgets got restored, because that, you know, that's a painful thing, I know, to the Senior Librarians who are selecting for their subject departments and, or their communities out in the branches, and so on, so. And then, you know, I mean, one of the things that I realized when I was Central, and it was probably, you know, from doing so much outreach and programming in the branches, you know, I could see, you know, once we had our staffing restored, staff had more time. We, you know, we had all of this, all these talented staff in all the different Subject Departments, and I thought, you know, we need to be promoting them and marketing them and their expertise and taking advantage of the skills and talents that they have. And, you know, some of the ways, you know, we thought we could do it was, you know, children's librarians and YA librarians have always traditionally done a lot of programming. Adult programming, especially even in the branches, not so much, but they've, I think, they've done so much more programming, and it's really drawn people into the library. And also, you know, I was pitching some projects that I did not get to see through fruition, but was able to get budget approval for, like the Octavia Lab, the digital media lab.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=1591.92,1748.193"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, where we're sitting right now, which, yeah, which started under you, and it took years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=1748.82,1753.113"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e It took a long time, and staff has just done a fabulous job of designing it and developing it and offering the services that are offered to the public. I just think it's so exciting as, you know, we had a lot of, we have a lot of spaces in the Central Library that were underutilized, a lot of extra, I don't mean shelf space, I mean extra seating that we didn't need. And so, I wanted to see kind of a repurposing of some of those spaces to draw people in, to engage the public, the Job and Career Center down in the Business Department, because they offer wonderful programming and things like financial literacy. We established a photo gallery down in History Department, where the Photo Department could, you know, could create their own exhibits and have programming related to it, and now wonderfully, you know, display that online, you know, creating our digital. I think the TESSA is fabulous, offering all of our digital resources online.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=1753.42,1839.354"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e And I think that the Digital Commons space here at Central, that was established under you, wasn't it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=1839.82,1844.253"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, yes. I was able to get budget approval for it, but I wasn't able to see it through. So, we had a vision for it, because, you know, you go down that escalator and there's this big blank dead space, and it's so nice to see it livened up. And then for programming for such a large building, we had the Taper Auditorium, and we only had Meeting Room A and Meeting Room B. And so, we needed additional spaces for programming, so like the digital media lab. And now I'm happy to see the meeting spaces, I think got added to Business and Science \u0026 Technology.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=1844.64,1888.751"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, yeah, there's meeting rooms, study rooms.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=1889.808,1891.609"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. So, that, you know, I'm really happy to see that, and I think the New Americans, and all of that. So, you know, staff is just, you know, doing a fantastic job and lots of innovating and so on. I'm really proud of everything that they continue to do, and I'm trying to think of what else.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=1891.86,1918.154"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e So, I wanted to go back a little bit on some of the other things. So, you had discussed when you were a children's librarian that you had done a lot of innovative programming. And is that something that you were, like, urged to do? Did you kind of take it upon yourself and run with it? So, what were kind of the programming mandates for a children's branch librarian at that time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=1918.88,1940.274"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay. There was the things that were mandated or encouraged, I should say, were things like preschool story time, summer reading club. In terms of programming, and that's probably all that was mandated, but everyone did more programming. I happened to love programming and it was just something that I just thoroughly enjoyed. And so, I did, you know, we did a lot. We did a lot of programming. And having the support of the Friends Group, we had everything from, you know, taiko drummers to petting zoos, to you name it out, and I'm sure nowadays they probably would never have passed the liability, you know, reptile shows. And there was always funding, you know, from I think the [Library]Foundation at that time provided funding for maybe two special programs a year. So, we all, you know, got things like that. You know, the art programming I did just because I was involved with Art to Grow On I enjoyed doing that. We had a really active GAB, Grandparents of Books, now STAR Reader program, and that was fun. And I thoroughly enjoyed working with Maureen Wade who was under Anne Conner. She was in charge of that program and just did a masterful job with it. And so, you know, we had a very robust volunteer program there. It was fun. And we did, you know, toddler story time, preschool story time, all of those kinds of things, tons of school visiting. And I don't know that, you know, because during—you had to be freed from the branch. And I was a really strong advocate for school visiting and, you know, you'd have to—what you needed to do is meet with your Senior Librarian and say, \"Okay, I want to visit all my schools at least once a year and this is how many days it would take me.\" And I know it paid off because I still have people who—I mean, I've been—it's been many, many years. And I still have people who come up to me and say, \"I used to love when you came into my classroom.\" So I know it's effective and it brought—we would have like a thousand kids in our summer reading club. It was just—it was so much fun, so much fun. And you know, I really—I enjoy it. So I mean, I'm a firm believer in that just because at—working in the same place for so many years, you got to see the results of that kind of outreach. And you know, I went to Parks and Recs and, you know, the housing projects to their preschools and did story times and things like that. It was—it was a lot of fun, a lot of fun.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=1941.141,2151.811"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you. And then I also wanted to go back to the Mark Twain, so the kind of closing up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=2152.14,2158.574"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=2158.86,2159.001"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Could you kind of go into maybe a little bit of detail of what it takes to kind of close up and pack up a branch?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=2159.74,2167.388"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. First of all, you needed to weed the collection of anything that you did not want to bring over to the new branch. So you know, when—because you want to open up with a fresh-looking collection. And so we had to thoroughly weed the collection. We were working with—the whole time, developing with Adult Services and Children's Services opening day collections. So they were creating lists as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=2168.26,2206.79"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e But you at the branch were very actively involved in developing that opening day collection?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=2207.64,2213.013"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. And then we had to pack up all the boxes and get them labeled and stored. You know, you had to prepare the community as well that we are—we will be closing, but we're going to be reopening in a new wonderful branch, same location, you know, in what, two years or a year and a half or whatever it was. But these are the branches that you can go to. And so, you know, there were, you know, depending on where they lived, they—there were several branches that they could go to. You had to reassign—help to reassign staff, although those decisions actually were—looking back, they were made by the Area Office with Branch Library Services. And it's a lot easier to close up a branch than it is to open it for construction. So yeah, packing it up, taking, you know, all the documents, everything, all of that had to be packed. A lot of them needed to go with you because you were still managing some of these people depending on where you were sent. So that was, I mean, there was a lot going on during the building project.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=2214.12,2306.413"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e And so you'd already talked about how you—so you really—your working career was at LAPL, essentially.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=2307.86,2314.205"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, yeah. Yeah. It was all at LAPL.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=2314.883,2317.165"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e It was all at LAPL. So, but can you talk a little bit about, you know, your decision to go to library school, where you went to library school? Oh,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=2317.38,2324.698"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=2324.698,2324.761"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e And if you can maybe describe the hiring—so your hiring process to becoming a librarian because everybody seems to have a very—even though it's all civil service, we all seem to have a very different hiring process and kind of how long it takes to get a job as a librarian.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=2325.68,2339.905"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Right. It took a long time, actually. So as I mentioned, when I started as an MC, I was an English major. I was thinking, well, I guess I could be a teacher, but I wasn't really sure. And then, as I said, I was really inspired by the work of the children's librarians and loved working in the library. So I was really encouraged by—I don't know if you remember Jennifer Lambelet, Jennifer Wallace. I can't remember. She had two different names. I can't remember which was last. And Selma Streicher, one of the reference librarians. And they had both attended Cal State Fullerton's program, which I don't believe is still in its existence any longer. And I graduated from UCLA in December, and Prop 13 was just getting ready to pass or had just passed. And I wanted to get in and out of library school as quickly as I could. UCLA, I would have had to wait for the fall. It was a very—kind of a rigid program, wasn't that flexible. It was two years. And at the time, Cal State Fullerton's—I started in January, right after I graduated from UCLA, and I actually graduated in a year. I took a really heavy load, went to the summer, through the summer, and everything. And I graduated in January of '76, and, you know, there was still a hiring freeze. I took the exam, which was an oral exam, I believe. You know, I don't know if it was written or—maybe it was just an oral interview down at City Personnel. And I didn't get hired until August of 1977, and that's when I was offered the position at Mark Twain, which Tony Mafrica, I believe, was the HR Director at the time. And I remember he said, \"Well, you can—I don't know if you want this or not.\" But I said, \"Sure, I'll take it.\" It was—and it was great. That branch was—I think it must have been a church back in the day. This was like two branches ago, two or three. It had a big grassy backyard and it was fun. And the staff was just like a little family. And it was in the middle of a residential area right across from West Vernon Elementary School. So it was a fun experience.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=2340.1,2504.887"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e And so you've talked about a couple of—you've talked about Steve Newcomer having an impact on you, as well as Janine. Are there other staff members that really had a big impact on you that you'd like to talk about?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=2506.46,2518.123"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e You know, my very first area manager when I was an MC was Charlotte Jackson. And her—you know, the support staff was so important, too, in the Area Office, Kadette Cleveland. And Charlotte Jackson was just a model of fairness and evenhandedness, and she was always calm and just, you know, so lovely in the way that she treated people. And I always, you know, I always thoroughly enjoyed working for her. Janine was wonderful, as I mentioned. Kris Morita was always very, very supportive of me, and I really appreciated everything she did. I probably drove her crazy at times, but she was, you know. When I was Assistant Director of ITC, my office was right next to Steve, and then Kris was there. And you know, I was given the opportunity to, you know, to become Assistant Director of ITC. I think it was—I think it was Fontayne [Holmes], maybe Martín [Gómez] I'm not sure. And they were—and then just, you know, there's so many people throughout the library system that I just, you know, I just love them. I have so much affection and appreciation for them, like you, like Ani [Boyadjian], like the Senior—you know, Youngsil [Lee] and her staff. All of the Seniors and the branch staff that I've worked in, from MC's, you know, to the admin staff. Steve Fritz was a gem, you know, to work with. And I mentioned, you know, I can't say enough about Matthew [Mattson], you know, so helpful. Andy Vuong and his staff, James [Van Gerpen], you know. People who really helped me by generously sharing their knowledge and being patient. And you know, Anne Conner was a wonderful Children's Services Coordinator, you know, as well as Central Library Director. And so was Virginia Walter. Virginia Walter was another Children's Services Director who, you know, was really inspiring. And I just, you know, there's so many—I'm worried I'm going to leave somebody out, because there's just so many, you know, Kuang Pei [Tu]. I love working with Kuang Pei. And, you know, Joyce Cooper, loved working with Joyce Cooper. I mean, she, Selena [Terrazas], and Ani were, after—especially after Dan [Dupill] retired, you know, kind of had to sort of reorganize a little bit. They, you know, through different periods in LAPL's history, they were trying to cut positions and so on. I remember when I was still a children's librarian, they consolidated Regions and reassigned people. I think that was when Elizabeth Martinez was City Librarian, and Carmen Martinez was the Director of Branches. Poor Richard Partlow, nicest guy in the world, gets—he got transferred to the farthest possible branch, to the San Pedro Branch, as the Area Manager. And, you know, he was, you know, he was wonderful to work with. And, you know, so I—those were painful, painful, you know, reassignments for people, I think, you know, I always empathize with them for that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=2518.84,2775.294"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e And as I recall, if I'm remembering correctly, when you were going to become acting CLS director, you did get to work with Anne.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=2775.66,2783.167"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=2783.36,2783.762"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e So there wasn't just getting— No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=2784.581,2786.363"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Because when I took over as the Senior Librarian for Carolyn Cole, she retired, she was gone, and then I just started. So you did have a little bit of overlap. Yes,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=2786.383,2793.54"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, yes, I did. And, you know, Anne's great. You know, she—I had a chance to work with her for—and I'd worked with her a lot anyway. You know, as a children's librarian, she, Maureen, and I did GAB training for the State Library and, you know, I knew her, and then ITC, I worked with, you know, you work with Anne. And so she worked with me and the—I have to mention the staff in CLS, the office, Valerie [Rosales], Rebecca [Lopez], Joyce Ung, you know, they were, you know, they're the A-team. They were wonderful to work with as well. And so, yes, I did get a chance to work with Anne, and she imparted as much knowledge as she could in the, you know, in the period of time we had. There was a lot to absorb, and she tried to, you know, ease my way into it as much as possible, and, you know, I appreciated that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=2793.54,2853.188"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, because if you had to—I mean, Director of Central Library services is, for me, so hard to wrap—if you could summarize, like, if you could summarize what that job is, like, can you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=2853.4,2863.281"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e I—well, okay, so you're—you're overseeing—you're overseeing the staff, you know, through the supervisors, and you know, you're responsible for all the obvious, you know, overseeing the budget, managing the book collection budget in terms of making sure we're not overspending, making sure, you know, that the budget is allocated, you know, appropriately, you know, HR concerns and so on. A big part of it is, and probably one of the most challenging is, making sure that the staff and the public feel safe in—in, you know, in the environment, and that they have what they need, and, you know, let's face it, I mean, in the world, in any public facility, you know, you're dealing with people who are mentally ill, you're dealing with people with substance abuse issues, and, you know, it's very difficult, it's very difficult for the staff and for the public. You want, to provide a welcoming, safe environment for everyone, you know, for the public to come in. You don't want people to come in, have a bad experience, and tell everybody that they know, because, you know, as it is, people would say all the time, \"Oh, you work at the library? God, does anybody go into the library anymore?\" And they—they have no idea, you know, of—yes, of course they do, and, you know, all of the incredible resources that we offer, both in person and, you know, this rich, robust website that makes the collections and our services and everything so accessible, you know, to the public. And so, there's, you know, there's that, there's making sure that the staff is, you know, that our strategic goals as a system are being carried through by the staff, you know, by the services, you know, there's a lot. There's, you know... It's","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=2865.722,3030.466"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e a big job.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3031.008,3031.53"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e It's a big job, but it, you know, I feel like I was just able to, you know, I wish I could have stayed longer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3033.04,3041.887"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e We all wish you could have stayed longer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3042.56,3044.367"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e You know, I just, you know, I loved it. It was a wonderful, wonderful opportunity, and I'm so, so grateful, and, you know, I just had, you know, I had, you know, my mother, my aunt, you know, they were ill, and, you know, family obligations that, you know, I just had to attend to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3045.2,3069.212"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. And so, just remind, so you started what year again?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3070.143,3073.251"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e I started in 1974.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3073.5,3074.528"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e And then retired in 2015.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3075.959,3077.349"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e In 2015, just a month shy of 41 years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3079.4,3081.305"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e That's incredible. Okay, I'm going to put you on the spot a little bit. Okay. Do you have a favorite patron interaction that comes to mind?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3084.4,3092.892"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e I do. You know, it's so funny. I was looking through, I was just looking through some of my old papers and things like that. And, I mean, there were a lot of favorites, but one here at Central that I love was I ran into this young man, and he asked me for a favor. He wanted to propose to his girlfriend. And what he wanted to do was put the note, \"Will you marry me?\", inside this particular book. In International Languages, I believe. And, you know, could I make that happen? And so, I worked with the staff and, you know, because somebody needed to kind of keep an eye on the book while he, so he let me know when he was coming in. They were going to get coffee, they were coming back into the department, the note was there. Somebody in International Languages, was looking at it, and it was so sweet. He sent me this lovely note and this picture of him and his girlfriend, and it said, \"She said yes!\" It had the note where he said, \"Will you marry me?\", and the book was of special significance to him. And, you know, that was one of the sweetest, that was one of the sweetest, but, you know, I had a lot of, I didn't, because at Central, I didn't get a lot of interaction with the public where, like you do when you're serving the public in a, you know, in a subject department. So that was one of the sweetest ones here. But in the branches, I have a, you know, I just have so many of them, you know, they're so, I'm, totally sentimental. I saved so many cards and little letters and, you know, graduat-, I, you know, I was invited to college graduations of some of these kids. I mean, it was, it was sweet, you know, it was just, you know, really the blessing of my life, my career here, and I love LAPL.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3093.121,3227.09"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Absolutely. And And so, you know, since you did work here for a fair amount of time, do you feel like the, culture of the Los Angeles Public Library has changed and evolved over the years?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3228.003,3239.594"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I do. I think, you know, I think over the years, we have become so much more innovative and customer focused. And, you know, just getting over that, you know, with the, there, there was just such dramatic and vast technological changes in the system. And I think we're doing so much, much better job at marketing, both online and in person. I think the website's fantastic. I think what they're doing with social media is great, you know, a lot of the programming that's done. So yes, I think it's, it's very refreshing. I think the changes in, that respect, you know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3240.463,3300.354"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you. So now I want to turn to, so in 1986, in April of 86, the Central Library suffered two devastating fires.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3301.162,3309.903"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3310.803,3311.185"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e So you were not employed at Central Library at that time, but you were with the system. Do you remember that day that Central Library caught on fire?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3311.34,3319.291"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e I do. I do. I was a children's librarian at San Pedro. And I remember, at San Pedro. And I remember, like, reports coming in, you know, people actually calling me on the news, \"Hey, did you see what's on, on television?\" And I mean, no comparison to what the, you know, the staff who worked here felt. But everyone was shocked, I mean, shocked and stunned. And you kind of felt like, I mean, having relied so much on Central, just knowing that collection, and the staff, and the experts, and what was going to happen. And it was, I mean, it was nothing short of horrifying. And Branch Staff, we volunteered to come up and go through the wet books and, and so on. But I, yes, I, I mean, it was, it was, it was awful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3320.2,3387.894"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Because, I mean, I do feel like sometimes it feels like there is a bit of a division between Central Library and the Branches. But at that, which I'm sure that existed at that time to a degree, but around The Fire, you felt that it was all kind of one system.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3388.581,3404.151"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, yes. I think everybody rallied, rallied around. And, you know, I mean, it was, it was horrific. I think what eventually came out of it, you know, is spectacular, but, you know, what a devastating loss and how painful, you know, for the staff and the system. After, you know, we, because we would come down monthly for book inspection, for order meetings and so on, for different kinds of admin meetings and trainings and things like that. Those got moved eventually to, they would kind of rotate around. I think sometimes they met at Expo in the meeting room. Sometimes they met out in the v=Valley at a commercial, high rise. I think Spring Street was where book inspection may have been set up, you know, eventually. So yeah, no, I mean, there's no comparison to what the Central Library staff must have been going through. But yeah, everyone, everyone felt the loss, you know, deeply and, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3404.3,3480.294"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e And then just talking a little bit more kind of about the division between the two. Do you think that that kind of relationship improved, evolved in the time that you were here? Do you, or like, what do you think could be done, I think, to kind of have more cohesion between the two, between Central Library and Branch Library Services?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3481.0,3502.248"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e You know, I think, I think personal interactions help. Maybe serving on committees together, having a, you know, Central Library staff, Branch staff, you know, the three different Divisions. I think, I think that helps. You know, some of it I think is just, I think maybe, you know, a lot of branches, they don't feel the connections as much, you know, because you're dealing with, you know, your Region, your Area Manager, and so on. I think, you know, as many opportunities for staff to get together and work on things, whether it's, you know, remotely or whatever, I think those kinds of things help. You know, having common, you know, common goals, common things to celebrate, you know, about, the library and, you know, our services and so on, you know, can help, and.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3505.12,3577.354"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3579.748,3580.15"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e You're welcome.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3580.231,3580.523"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e And so you worked at the library, you know, before the implementation of an online catalog. So can you maybe talk a little bit about kind of working in, at LAPL in the analog days, and then kind of that transition into an online catalog, and just kind of the differences and just what that transition was like.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3581.44,3605.226"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e So I mean, I feel like it was like the Stone Age, almost, when I, you know, we had the card catalog file, which, you know, I mean, all that tedious filing and, you know, the online catalog just made the collection so much more accessible to everyone. You knew what, I mean, in terms of searching, in terms of knowing, you know, what branch had what, just, I mean, it was just a massive, you know, massive change, especially when it would be, was well developed and so on. Because first there was, I'm trying, I was trying to remember, after the card catalog, there was the OPAC, and then, you know, then eventually, you know, CARL Web and the circulation system and, and, and so on. And just, you know, all of, all of the online resources, not just the catalog, but, you know, there was, remember, there was no, I mean, we had the internet before World Wide Web. Do you remember how difficult it was? It was almost impossible to use, no website. So I just, it's really phenomenal what the technological advances have meant in terms of the accessible, accessibility and availability of our services.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3606.92,3713.091"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e And we have to evacuate. Oh, okay. Apparently, I'm going to stop the recording right now, because we need to evacuate, but we will return, I hope it does. Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3715.64,3727.542"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay, so we had a brief interruption, the building got evacuated, which I think was was very fitting, Giovanna, when you were here, I think the building was getting evacuated often. So it was kind of, I think it was, it was an appropriate homecoming for you to come back to Central Library. I wanted to, so because you worked here so long, you did work under a number of different City Librarians, starting with Wyman Jones. Did you have much interaction with Wyman when you were...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3730.554,3762.329"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e No, actually, no. My first, I think, I remember being at an ALA, I think he was speaking on a panel and they're all lined up. He was on the end, and in a just a cloud of cigarette smoke, and that was my first, the first time I had actually really, you know, seen him, he didn't have a lot to say. But no, you know, as a children's librarian in a branch, you know, you don't have that, you don't have that much, you don't have any interaction, really, much, and he wasn't, he wasn't big on outreach and, you know, really trying to engage staff and meet with staff, even at order meetings. I don't, I don't ever recall him being at a children's order meeting or anything like that. 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It was, there was a, there was a big cafe, kind of a cafeteria, not really a cafeteria, but they had some food, they had lunch tables, and then next to it, there was a larger auditorium for staff order meetings, both the children's and children's, YA, and adult order meetings. So that's, yeah, that's where they were held, and book inspection was in G, room G437. So they must have configured that part of the, reconfigured that part of the building, so I'm not sure exactly where that would be right now, but it was Fourth Floor.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3836.16,3885.186"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, I think back then was called the third floor, but it's now called the Fourth Floor. 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So you and some of the other people we worked with also talk about Carmen Martinez, and I think we sometimes, when we start just using the word Martinez, we tend to...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3920.0,3934.126"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e I think, I'm pretty sure, I mean, my memory, I'm pretty sure her last name was Martinez.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3934.52,3939.214"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e I think it was. 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And I don't remember who the assistant director was, but, but she was the Director of Branches.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3946.36,3955.122"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e And so, so she's somebody you would have had interaction with or not really?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3955.44,3959.833"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Not much. Not much because, you know, our interaction in the branches was largely with our Area Manager.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3960.0,3967.108"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay. You","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3967.62,3969.201"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e know, obviously the Senior, the Area Manager would always be at the order meeting and at the regional meetings because in the afternoon of the order meeting, that was usually, you know, say 9 to 12 or 9 to 11. And then you went to lunch and then the Regions would all meet. And they kind of go over the order sheet and any, you know, programming, anything that they wanted to discuss, any plans, any regional activities that were going on. And so you got that information. So you didn't usually go back to the branch on order meeting day. A book inspection, you went, you know, you went either morning or afternoon. And then the other half of the day was in your agency.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=3969.241,4016.149"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e And so do you feel that even though OSA was developed to kind of streamline and make the ordering process more efficient, do you feel like something was lost in taking away meeting with people in person and interacting with them?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4017.42,4034.451"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, we, now we still had, we still had regional meetings and order meetings. I don't know if they still do or not.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4035.06,4042.968"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e They're, they still have them, but now they're all just on Zoom since lockdown.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4043.56,4048.634"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, really?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4048.962,4049.425"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e It's like once a year we'll do it in person.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4049.8,4051.609"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e I mean, as, yeah, I thought they were, I thought that the, I thought both the order meetings and the regional meetings were really important. In, for the children's librarians and the YAs especially, there was, the order meetings were a time for kind of training, motivation, you know, things that you could try. They might have speakers in, that was usually in the morning. But the regional meetings were important because you could share among, you could, we were talking about kind of the books for part of it. And then also we talked about programming ideas. You know, we usually had kind of an agenda and we developed a camaraderie that was very strong in Central Southern region. I mean, I found it very valuable and we kind of fed off each other and planned things and shared ideas. And I thought it, I found it really useful, you know, and as well, you know, when the Seniors had their regional meetings as well, you know, you shared problems, you shared programming ideas, you shared just lots of things that, you know, it was, it was useful at that level, kind of continuing education and training you learn from your colleagues and develop a bond. And, you know, we were going, you know, I worked at two regional branches, so we filled in a lot when they needed a sub, when someone didn't show up, they couldn't get a sub, they might send you over to that branch. So it was nice to get to really know, you know, your colleagues among, you know, among the other branches in your region.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4051.88,4159.566"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e And regionally speaking, so was there a Central Region and a Southern Region then?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4160.62,4165.134"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e There was initially, and I'm trying to remember when that they were consolidated. Because there may have been another consolidation among the regions out maybe in the Valley or Northeast, but I'm not sure exact, I don't remember exactly. So they, there was the Southern region and then there was Central, they reconfigured, they moved Baldwin Hills Branch to the Western region and they consolidated so they had one, so then they had one Principal. And I can't remember if Charlotte Jackson had retired by then, I think maybe she had, and Barbara Clark who was then the Area Manager and in the Central Region became the one for both. And at the time, we had Librarian III's, we had like a Senior Children's Librarian who was assigned to the regional branch who would train new children's librarians and do ongoing training and meet with them. I was really fortunate, I had Bessie Egan or Bessie Condos, you know, and she was a wonderful trainer, you know, she'd come out with you in your first school visits and model things for you and kind of kept up with the training that you needed. It It was really helpful, you know, because it was one-on-one, so.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4165.24,4255.847"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e And for the regional libraries, so for Central-Southern, both Exposition and San Pedro were both called regional libraries. 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The ones that weren't just at Central Library.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4269.18,4309.912"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e So you had to have it geographically just to really serve the communities effectively. So then, so Elizabeth Martinez and then Susan Kent, so, but you were a children's librarian during that period, so you probably didn't have too much interaction with either of them?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4310.12,4323.951"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e I had more with Susan because she was, she was still here when, when I first came to ITC.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4324.66,4335.462"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4336.24,4336.441"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e And then it was Fontayne [Holmes] and then Martín [Gómez]. And Martín left kind of unexpected when he took the job at USC. And so there was a little interim period before John Szabo was, was hired, was appointed, and they brought back Susan Kent for a brief period of time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4337.3,4364.492"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Right. And so when, when you were in ITC, did you have a lot of interaction like with the City Librarians at that time? 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And Fontayne was, you know, wonderful as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4377.501,4408.273"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e And then did you have a lot of, because Fontayne was largely responsible, I think, for implementing a lot of the expansion under the 1998 bond.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4409.059,4415.606"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Absolutely.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4416.761,4417.465"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e So when the Mark Twain move happened, were you interacting with Fontayne?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4417.58,4421.419"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. And, you know, through Juliana, Juliana Cheng was the Assistant Director of Facilities, and they were both great, great to deal with. So I probably dealt more with Juliana, but they both did just a fantastic job of managing those two building projects. I mean, they really did. And also with Eloisa [Sarao], I remember when I was both at Mark Twain and Jefferson, you know, you would have, there was a punch list, you would have to identify all of the things that still need to be fixed before you get that certificate of occupancy. And that was, that was fun. I remember one of those buildings, there were, there was a leak and there were, there was a, literally a mushroom growing on the carpet under, under one of the, yeah, you know. 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And we had programs and, and so on. And it was so exciting to see the public come in and see, you know, it was such a huge improvement over, the old building. We had the public computers there and it was, it was wonderful. And the collection was, you know, was great and it was exciting, really exciting, you know, for them. And, you know, getting to know the community and the schools and, you know, I went to a lot of the churches to talk to their groups because they had, it was like a church on every other corner in that neighborhood. It was nice, you know. And so, and we didn't have a lot of security issues there. People were pretty good at the time, you know, so it was, it was fun. 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Yeah. And I, you know, I didn't, I didn't have, I didn't have the pleasure of getting to directly serve the public, you know, in a, in a Subject Department or, you know, in Access Services like you do with a variety of people looking for a variety of subjects in a, in a branch. So yeah, I didn't, I, and I missed that. 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She didn't really have that title, did she?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4732.8,4735.428"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e She did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4735.82,4736.182"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e She did? 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But she was always, you know, if you kind of explain what you want to do and why you wanted to do it and what, you know, how the public would benefit, you know, she would buy in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4805.38,4831.022"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4831.72,4831.821"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e She would buy in. But yeah, she, you know, with her background managing the budget all of those years, that kind of had, you know, that was her, that was one of her strengths, I should say.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4834.411,4844.653"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, definitely.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4844.981,4845.766"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4845.82,4845.92"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e I always got that impression that she knew the money.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4846.82,4848.568"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, she did. 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Is that something, and I've never, I just, is that something you actively worked at or does that, or do you really have that like uncanny gift to remember people's names? Because it's such a skill.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4934.559,4951.105"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiovanna Mannino:\u003c/strong\u003e I, didn't work on memorizing them. I just, it just came to me. I just, you know, because I got to kind of know people and, you know, once you know them, you can, you, you remember that. My husband is so bad at names. But I, I think it's always important to make people feel valued and welcome and that they're important no matter if they are a volunteer or an MC or, whatever in the system, no matter what, you know, what position. You know, I, I know I still had a lot to learn when I left the position. I just hope that staff felt that, that they were valued and appreciated and maybe inspired and encouraged and supported.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722#t=4954.887,5011.69"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2368/collection_resources/128001/file/239722/transcript/66643/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rice:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, I, I know. I know that, that we all were, and people still talk about, that's the common, \"God, she would come down here and she knew my name.\" And you've been retired for, you know, almost nine years. 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