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Thank you gentlemen. That was a great way to start. I will ask our panel number one to join me here on the odium. First of all i would like to say thank you very much to chairman wheeler and to tom for being with us. We are very honored. Were moving onto the Panel Discussion portion of our program. I want to remind everybody that this hearing is being live cast, and viewers are in courage to submit questions via twitter. We also have some cards on your chairs if you have questions that you want to submit. We have a staff member who will be picking up those questions fter each panel. We will al...

On a recent trip to new york city, booktv visited the New York Public Library where we spoke with the librarys president and ceo, anthony marx, but the history of the institution as well as its Current Operations and future. Lets start with some numbers. How big is the New York Public Library . How many employees, budget, et cetera . New York Public Library combines the largest circulating Branch Library system in america, 88 branches, in every neighborhood in the boroughs we serve, as well as for Important Research libraries. This one being the crown jewel at the center of the system but also...

If we use them as a kind of historical lands and focus on the period from the 1960s to the present, the last half a century or so, that can tell us a lot about how we as a country move from a relatively liberal political heir to a much more conservative political air. Whether that is changing, were in a shadow of the 2012 election, we dont know yet. I think its still too early to tell. But certainly the last generation or two of american politics has been dominated by a more conservative orientation of the whole political culture. And i think using the family, something that we are all familia...

Good evening. I am the executive director of the Library Foundation under the john f. Kennedy library and museum and all foundation colleagues i thank you for coming. Was a dollars a generous underwriters, bank of america, raytheon, boston capital, the boston foundation, and our Media Partners the boston globe and w. B. You are. Tonights forum is special for those who work at the president ial library and use the and it is a testimony to the hard work and dedication for those employs to work hard to preserve the nations history and of president kennedy. This secret recordings of jfk which is n...

Buzzy Nielsen of the State Library of Oregon said these are troubling trends that have compelled some library staff to quit the industry altogether.