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I am Ellen Alan Clark and i am the Library Director for the American Revolution institute and it is my special pleasure to welcome you and to introduce our speaker, dr. Christy pichichero. She is the associate professor at george mason university. Her talk this evening is being held in conjunction with our current exhibition revolutionary reflections french memories of the war for america, which is on view doctor pecker row will be discussing war and the enlightenment in the context of french ex...

Greetings, everyone. I am Ellen Alan Clark and i am the Library Director for the American Revolution institute and it is my special pleasure to welcome you and to introduce our speaker, dr. Christy pichichero. She is the associate professor at george mason university. Her talk this evening is being held in conjunction with our current exhibition revolutionary reflections french memories of the war for america, which is on view behind this fireplace. Will be discussing war and the enlightenment i...

And how it relates to the prohibition and now they legalization of cannabis and how that impacts consumer access to the substance. Onave been doing research and cannabis legalization for the last two decades. You get to join us now on our tour of the last 100 years of drug policy. Remember yesterday, we were talking about the impact of culture and science on our approach to medicine in anceptualizing what is acceptable substance for medical consumption and what marks those substances that are di...

Watching at home, is a course focused on business in society here at Colorado College and this class in particular were looking at the making of the u. S. Drug war and in particular how it relates to the prediction and now the legalization of cannabis and how that impacts consumer access to this particular sub stan. Ive been doing research either no graphically and historically on the drug war and for the last two decades so you get to join us today on our tour of the last 100 years of drug poli...

Now from portland, oregon, the tv takes a tour of Library Archives and special collections and of lewis and clark university. We are in portland, oregon, at the special collection in the law library upstairs in a reading room and today we will see a range of collection from our lewis and clark collection including material, not representative of the types of things they brought with them on the exposition to the Pacific Ocean, contemporary material that informed their decisions they undertook. W...

They america. They contributed to all of the things you needed to do to get things ready for students. After colleges and universities were founded, many places had people as servants or cooks upkeep andneral maintenance of the school. The a jerk the other major thing is the intellectual work. Colleges and universities throughout the whole civil war period debated slavery. Was it a good system or not . Many colleges had faculty who developed proslavery ideology. Was part, not all of, but a major...

Hayden, and i loved your response to that. Well, thank you. Does anybody else have a question . Do you have a question, sir . Thank you. Just a question about the Montgomery County Library System which is really important here. Since one out of three people here were born in another country, here in gaithersburg and a few others called the english conversation club, ive been with it for about ten years where we teach immigrants english, we help them learn the culture, help them, you know, get a ...

How much you want them to ensure that we can continue to get Library Services and please, when we put out a call that we need your support, please do so. We dont have money for pacs, we dont have a lot of money, we are not wealthy people. So we depend on what you call grassroots and that is normal people picking up the phone or emailing their member of congress or their senator or their governor and saying we want you to support libraries. The mayor, the governor, the United States Congress Need...

Takes place online or in person. I think our mission has stayed very much the same even though the way we might deliver those services has changed. But we do have a new Strategic Plan that will well be coming t with shortly, so youll see how some things have changed and how were trying to better reach the communitys needs. I just wanted to take just a quick second to thank everyone. Like i said, we could go on forever. I wish we had some more time to talk about some more things, but i want to th...

The East Helena branch of the Lewis & Clark Library is almost finished with renovations to create a new separate room in the building and the library is now open,