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Were the left lane is blocked you concede traffic is backed up in the console area and into hercules. Also were tracking a motorcycle accident i think this thing had been cleared by were looking at a backed up for also read no heading into this city. Theres a quick look at the bay bridge read is the traffic is backed up for those of you folks getting on to the bridge. The drive time is not too bad and the berkeley area takes about 10 minutes to get across the bridge. james we do have some change...

Come. And then it occurred to me, um, they all got advances, you know . So thats probably the difference. [laughter] yes, sir. The new George Washington library at mount vernon [inaudible] in accumulating these papers, would you now consider that to be a president ial library . Well, i consider it a president ial library. Its not considered an official president ial Library Simply because its not, that has to do with a designation with the national archives. That doesnt mean its any worse or bet...

New York Public Library joined by Isaac Gewirtz what do you do here at the library . I am curator of henry and albert berg collection of english literature. Worked in the new York Public Library in the past and was later a curator at Methodist University and downtown at the Theological Seminary and got a doctorate and renaissance history at columbia and that led to me being here. Host how long have you been at the new York Public Library . As curator september 2000. Host you brought up things to...

If 2014 harlem book fair panel on multicultural book publishing. My name is weighed hudson and i am president and ceo of just us books, independent Childrens Book co. My wife cheryl and i started in 1988. We established just us books to addressing the needs to reflect our societys diversity. I will moderate the discussion but before we starts i would like to pay a little homage to a great writer we lost last week. Walter myers, winner of many of the awards for children and young adult literature...

That were ever taken, new york 1867, the winter of 186768 which was his second final reading tour of the united states. [inaudible] how did the library get the dickens materials a . Well, the Performance Company came to the berg collection through the purchase of the greatest collections of english and American Literature in private hands in the 20th century. This was back in 194041. One was a great Book Publishing magnate from cincinnati, and a friend of the irish renaissance. A real friend of ...

You cant have a novel without an audience and the fact there is this eager public wanting to know about the world around, wanted to know how life works, and he keeps this kind of thread of connection within the novel i think. You had the feeling rebellion against delivery status quo when you stumble into money in 2000 willing to learn about it and talk to bankers about it. At the point, i since you have some animosity towards going on in london. That it wasnt just a detached interest. I started ...

Him all throughout. I love his humor. And i mentioned commonsense. Hes delightful. He always makes me laugh, even now, and ive been writing about them for about 25 years. What should occur to journalist take from his career . Well, i think they should have the courage to say what they want to say, not always be waiting to see how it is being received. Also, he gets a lot of shoe leather. I think in this age of the internet, people are rushed to. They dont have the time to do their research. Page...

People will still be in this building and in schaumburg in the library for performing eyes in the business library, but much more Research Material will be sent out into the world. At some point, we will also reach what i call the holy grail, which is everything being Available Online to anyone and out of the blue and linked. But much of the world i dont think this would be 10 years from now because we have a lot of legal and technical issues and it will take a partnership with wikipedia and goo...

Brightest of cuba are found and apprehended and thrown into prison. Theres no open internet there. There arent any dictators in the world. China has written a book on how a dictatorship can control the internet with the great firewall of china and we have the situation that will replicate itself bigtime. Finally he would say this testimony from these unbelievably brave women and men who have suffered at the hands of castro helped steer off the veil of secrecy and an open secret if you will. Its ...

Wage, a discussion on that next with the Eisenbrey Economic Policy Institute and Daniel Mitchell of the Cato Institute. Also, two federal investigations currently going on in light of the shooting death in ferguson, missouri. Theill hear not only about investigation being done by the Justice Department, but also how they are conducted, what they do with evidence, what the end result might be when it comes to these types of investigations. Our guest will be william employee, former doj has handle...