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Or on our free cspan app. Creators from the National Portrait gallery, National Archives and the library of congress discuss their institutions exhibits commemorating the nineteenth amendment, which gave women the right to vote. They talked about the Creative Process behind the exhibits, including determining goals and selecting objects. The berkshire conference of women historians and womens Suffrage Centennial commission hosted this event online and provided the video. Hopkinsjohnson university, a copresident of the berkshire conference. Im happy to be welcoming all of you to this evenings c...

Event the National Book festival . Nice. Nice to see that. Welcome back. And how many of you have attended one of these dash book festival presents . Good, keep coming back. We like you. Thank you so much. [laughing] welcome to the library of congresses National Book festival presents, a vibrant new series of programs inspired by the National Book festival and t to bring you into the heart of this historic, dynamic institution, the library of congress, joe national library. Library. This is a brandnew effort through which we helped to spark conversations, engage, inspire and entertain you with...

Members of congress, government officials and technology leaders. Brewster kahle, what you do for living . I run the archives. Internet library on the internet that catalogs books, trying to build the internet into the library of alexandria for the digital age. That sounds like the internet. Doesnt it . Guest the internet is getting there but the published works is not fast enough. The average life of a webpage is only 100 days. Before it is changed or deleted. One hundred days. We built our culture on this ever shifting hand soap with the internet archive it takes snapshots of the webpages on...

[inaudible conversations] please welcome dr. Carla hayden and susan orlean. [applaus [applause] well, i have to start by, im carla Hayden Library of congress and i want to thank jamie and feline and the angels and the readers for allowing me to be with someone who hassle evaluat evaluated elevated libraries to such an extent. Thank you. Let me say there have been patron saints of libraries, Andrew Carnegie and stuff like that, about you you are now number one. I finally smacked down Andrew Carnegie. You have. Thats great. How does it feel to be the patron saint of librarians . When i started t...

There. The life a webpage is 100 days. This takes snapshots of webpages, done it since 1976, and called the way back machine on archives. Org. You can find things that disappeared either maliciously or sometimes they just drop off the net. How many websites are there today . Hundreds of millions. Theyre sort of coming and going all of the time. We collect about 800 million pages every day. The total collection is about 800 billion u. R. L. s. Its kind of huge. That turns out to only be part of what we do. We also archive television, abc nbc, cbs fox, and more. You can search to find clips of w...