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Front of the Senate Judiciary committee. We have it live at 10 a. M. Eastern on cspan or cspan now, our free mobile video app. Guest things are picking up with the midterms. Things are really heating up. Host or North Carolina . Guest it was a very interesting race. We were talking to voters ahead of the Midterm Elections what was the dynamic there that brought you to the tar heel state . Guest guest beasley is interesting. She was the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and is currently a member of the house. She would be the third africanamerican woman to serve in the senate. I...

Then at 9 p. M. Ezekiel emanuel is on after words talking about his book, reinventing American Health care. At 10 eastern, tim townsend tells the story of an American Army chaplain who was tasked with providing spiritual support to nazis during the nuremberg trial. And we wrap up at 11 p. M. Eastern with ann scott tyson. She describes the career of special forces major jim grant who developed a strategy to embed special forces in afghan villages to fight alongside Afghan Soldiers against alqaeda. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. The roots into jewish history for most people and that...

The about 2100 employees the. A budget of about 280 million a year operating. About half comes from the city of new york. The largest system. The other half comes from the return on of billion dollars endowment of the private foundation that employes me. And then we raise somewhere between 80 and 100 million a year. Also somewhere in the vicinity of where your 50 million a year on capital improvements. Again, most comes from the city, but it can also come from private sources. It is an amazing system. Almost unique in the world. Combining a Great Research Library System like the library of con...

Him the pioneer of four clinics. It is part of his visionary nature before people were talking about organic food he became of vegetarian and composting is out of conviction and data of tactics but i think we are done. Just one more question. What is the chavez legacy . Not in the field but a generation of activists that have learned from him to take the knowledge to go elsewhere in those that were empowered by the union was a tremendous experience. And also for latinos around the country and that is important to. Thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversatio...

Spoke with the librarys president and ceo anthony mark, about the hoyt of the institution as well as its Current Operations and future. Lets start with numbers. How big is the New York Public Library . How many employees, budget, et cetera . Guest a Public Library combines the largest circulating Branch Library system in america, 88 branches, in every neighborhood in the burroughs, as well as four Important Research libraries, this one being the crown jewel at the center of the system and also the shop berg center in hard harlem. We have 2100 employees, a budget of 280 million a year, operatin...