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Applause good evening. Good evening. And welcome to the library of congress. It is our pleasure to have everyone here for a very special night, as we open the libraries newest exhibition, rosa parks, in her own words. It is my honor to welcome members of congress, including members of the congressional black caucus, members of the rosa parks family who have come to washington for this special celebration. Can you give them a hand . applause we would also like to welcome the rosen and Raymond Parks institute for self development, led by miss elaine steel. That is another round of applause. appl...

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...

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Entity, and that the purpose of this program, and the others we do is not to advocate for any particular policies, but to provide Historical Context that can help inform policymakers and the public as they deal with difficult issues. Toore handing this over james banner, i want to thank the support of the mellon foundation, which makes this series possible, and i want to , who hashel wheatley organized the arrangements, and i want to thank the office of jerry connelly, who looked room for a booked the room for us. We will be collecting questions on note cards. If you have not received one, and...