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Be live from austin with two other events. Today you would hear from authors charles blow francis fukuyama. For complete schedule go to booktv. Org. We will begin at a panel on president Richard Nixon featuring former Nixon White House counsel john dean author of the nixon defense and historian Douglas Brinkley and luke nichter editors of the nixon tapes 19711972. Journalist Robert Draper is the moderator. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] this is a wide broadcast on cspan. We will keep things moving smoothly. Th...

Columnist. Jimel bui. My name is salvatore skibono director of the dorothy in lewis b Coleman Center for scholars and writers here at the library. As some of you know the Common Centers selects 15 fellows a year for a nine month term fellows receive an office in the Center Access to our collections and to stipend so they can focus exclusively on their work during their fellowships. The fellows are some of the very best and most promising academics independent scholars poets playwrights journalists dramatists artists and fiction writers at work today. They come here from around the country in t...

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...

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...

Which brings me to the last subject, what i would call paper preservation discoveries. Prior to 1870, before the transition to woodpulp, newspapers were printed on raglinen stock, paper made of linen rags, primarily of the facts of the colonists, what people wore as close. Also shipped sales. These rags were boiled and pulled and ultimately sifted into these sheets of paper. The durability of that paper plays a significant role in their preservation, and that today we can find 250 year old newspapers that are in better condition than, say, last weeks boston globe which is probably already yell...