This is cspan3. We are in the library of congress for a conversation among three people who are responsible for conserving the nations history and treasures, and my opening question is to our host for this conversation, carla hayden, who is the brand new 14th librarian of congress, just starting her job in the fall of 2016. Why did you take this job . Let me have you finish this sentence. I took this job because i want to . Open this wonderful Treasure Chest to as many people as possible. It has, in the room that were in now, six stradivarius violins and original scores from beethoven, haydn, no relation, and there are so many things here, and thats why i took the job. David ferriero, youve been at this a bit longer. You are the tenth archivist of the United States, started the job in 2009. Do you remember why you said yes . I said no twice when i got the first calls but it and it took someone from the Transition Team to come to new york to talk to me about what this administration was
What i know i teach students. If i look at the demand for the courses that deal with the data, if that is any indication, it is an enormous. Everybody wants to have that. Because employers in the want to know can you deal with it. The you have the experience. Even if you are a grocery form, a hospital, everybody realizes this information has a lot of intelligence embedded. Do you have the ability to instruct extract that intelligence and use it in a meaningful way or improve the quality of our product and so on . Is i dont know how big it but i think it is very big. Rahul, coauthor of streaming, sharing, stealing big data in the future of entertainment. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] cspan, where history unfolds daily. Cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies, and is brought to you today g
A discussion with three caretakers of smithsonian documents and artifacts. Andary of congress, archivist of the United States, in the others. They talk about the challenges and opportunities they see in the years ahead. This is 50 minutes. We are in the library of congress. For a conversation with three people responsible for conserving the nations history and treasures. My question is for carla hayden, starting this job in the fall of 2016. Why did you take this job . Let me have you finish this sentence. I took this job because i want to carla i wanted to open this wonderful Treasure Chest to as many people as possible. The room we are in now has 6 stradivarius violins and original scores from beethoven, hayden, no relation. Iginal scor hayden, no relation. There are so many things here. David ferriero, do you remember what you said yes . Why you said yes . Ferriero i said yes because of the opportunity to participate in and administers andi was serious about, thought that the Nation
Innovative spirits. We need to get back to a level playing feared. Book 14 pointshe that on a bipartisan basis that can send these things right. Ill make another point about attitude and why attitude is important. Where washington could show a bipartisan spirit and show itport in a bipartisan way, was twice as high then when we fell in these partisan quagmire where both parties hated each other. Both. Lame i blame both parties for allowing corporate capitalism to descend on the city. And to ignore they have part in then finance little guys not getting a shot. The American People are angry, and you are right the new era of hatred has exhibited shutdown,ased policy does it reasons for mediocre Economic Growth traits. I agree. Ronald reagan and tip oneill, they sell that Social Security was about to go down, and they fixed it. Er and they neither side got what they wanted, but they fixed it. I would give bill clinton credit during the Clinton Administration when he lost to congress, he di