At the mississippi book festival in jackson to talk about literacy and american libraries. [inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. Welcome to the third mississippi book festival. In the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Ive been asked to remind everyone that you are more than welcome to take photographs, post to social media, and the hash tag is literarylongparty. This is the conversation with the library of Congress Panel sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and friends of the library. Mississippi is fortunate to have so strong a supporter as its literature, music and art as congressman greg harper. Now in his fifth term in the United States house of representatives, congressman harper chairs the committee on House Administration and serves on the House Committee on energy and commerce, the joint committee on printing and perhaps most pertinently for us here today, as the chair of the joint committee of the library of congress. Here is congressman gre
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