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You take us on a broad romp through the world of ideas from the 17th century france to tahrir square, occupy wall street and the streets of indianapolis. You talk about the Network Effects that enable ideas to generate and build on each other in a way that is harder to do online where it is hard to get momentum out of a tweet or a post. Tell us a bit about the arguments you make in your book. The impetus for the book with a feeling that i had that social movements were we were seeing in our moments, social movements who burned very bright, briefly and then flare out. Sometimes they would leave...

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...

Struggle. There have been hundreds of meetings coming together. There are High School Students today who were preschool students when we started this conversation. And i have to tell you as we all know, it takes a village to raise our kids, but it has taken many villages to build this library. I want to start first and foremost by thanking three mothers, who helped to lead friends of joe dimaggio, julie christinsen, lizzy diaz and lizziehurst, thank you for all you have done. [ applause ] and i also want to take a moment and thank all of the parents who are here of all the different schools th...

Lets go prop b, lets go joe d. Are you ready, kids . Lets go probb, lets go joe d. Lets go prop b, lets go joe d. Thank you so much. [ applause ] all right, is there highenergy today . Fantastic. A couple of other colleagues, peers in the city family, tom, who is our Arts Commission executive director. Thank you for joining us. We have a partnership in the Arts Commission that every new building has public art. I dont know if our artist for north beach is here, bill fontana, were excited about his work and the opportunity to have beautiful art as part of the project. So bill, thank you. Also, ...

Look up. Because that is where the meeting room will be on the second floor with afterhour access for all the poets and all the kids story times and various activities. Its going to be fantastic. We want to continue our theme of partnerships and teamwork by acknowledging the great staff that has put it all together and its going to continue to offer services here in the neighborhood at our current library. And i see robert carlson, robert, would you wave . He is a Great Community advocate here and does a terrific job. [ applause ] other members of the team, begining with our chief of branches,...