Transcripts For CSPAN3 Library Of Congress In The Digital Age 20240714

Good evening, everybody. My name is tom mcintyre. I am the Deputy Director of the nyu center. I am pleased to welcome you all to the auditorium. This is our second installment of our Young Leaders Network Series for the summer. Founded in 2014 by the center and the Edward Kennedy institute for the u. S. Senate, the Young Leaders network aims to promote in the next generation of leaders the spirit of Public Service as embodied for decades on capitol hill by ted kennedy. Our goal is to provide students with programs that enrich their experience while interning in washington, d. C. And to help them create a network of peers as they lay a groundwork for a career in Public Service. Tonights program, uncovering the treasures of the library of congress will focus on the importance of collecting physical information and materials in the modern digital age. Our distinguished speakers will discuss the work of the Nations Library by providing Public Access to some of the most valuable treasures and documents in the nation. Please give a warm welcome to the librarian of congress, dr. Carla hayden point by broadcast journalist and nyu alum, ray suarez. [applause] ray i figure the applause is my cue. [applause] carla hayden, welcome. Dr. Hayden i was just in new york. Ray they have schools where you can learn to lose it, but i could not afford the tuition. You have an amazing job. I hope you feel that way too. Dr. Hayden every day. Ray kind of a curator, a guardian of national treasures. Kind of a keeper of the nations memory a very important part of the job. A very distinct assignment that is kind of different from the National Archives though there is some overlap. And we can talk further of where your turfs intersect. You have to keep pace of rapidly changing technology, what is in in the collection, and what the library keeps has to respond to what is in the technology. The library is a vault, but at the same time a place to keep things safe, but also a place that has to be porous and able to be interacted with by the public, which i think is a pretty interesting balancing act. And i want to touch you more about that as well. How long have you been on the job . Dr. Hayden it will be three years september 14. That is when i was sworn in officially. And at my swearingin, i made the point that to be a person of color and to be a woman, the first woman since 1802, there have been 14 librarians of congress, but being that person of color, to head up the Worlds Largest library, 171 million items and to know that the people who were my descendents were denied the right to read by law was very powerful. And so, in fact, i can share this. I have shared it before. I was doing my speech, getting