At the mississippi book festival in jackson to talk about literacy and american libraries. [inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. Welcome to the third mississippi book festival. In the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Ive been asked to remind everyone that you are more than welcome to take photographs, post to social media, and the hash tag is literarylongparty. This is the conversation with the library of Congress Panel sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and friends of the library. Mississippi is fortunate to have so strong a supporter as its literature, music and art as congressman greg harper. Now in his fifth term in the United States house of representatives, congressman harper chairs the committee on House Administration and serves on the House Committee on energy and commerce, the joint committee on printing and perhaps most pertinently for us here today, as the chair of the joint committee of the library of congress. Here is congressman gre
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With kids making sure they have breakfast in the morning and all these things. Can we reach out and try to make sure that the people within our neighborhood are cared for and i think thats the opportunity that the budget cuts, perhaps, could be remedied for. I think we can advocate hard and long for them to not exist, but i think the ways to mitigate less money and less resources is for us to do the work, so. That would be my 0. 02. [laughter] we got to do something. [laughter] but i mean, i know everyone here is, you know, doing so much, so i do appreciate all of you. [mic is off] i dont know. I can only [laughter] so, okay. Any other commissioner comments on directors report . No. Any Public Comment . There are no Public Commenters. Okay. Great. Hearing no callers, no Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Item 8, commissioner discussion and new business. This is a discussion item. Commissioners, commissioner ortiz cartagena. I want to announce the Small Busines
The library. Mississippi is fortunate to have so strong a supporter of literature, music and arts as congressman greg harper, now in fifth term, harper shares the committee on House Administration and serves House Committee of energy and commerce and joint committee on printing an more pertantly chair committee. Here is congressman gregg happen harper,. What a great day. All the work thats been done, you cant say enough to all of the people that have participated, but its my honor to have in mississippi dr. Carla hayden 14th librarian of congress. Still new on the job. We had an incredible day yesterday with her here at the state Library Commission and also we we had just an amazing day, didnt we. I want you to know that when you talk of rockstar status, and i see susan here. When we had her with a hundred librarians from across the state, it was like elvis was in the room. [laughter] it was pretty special. Also, it probably at about 10 15 we will open it up for q a. You have a questio
[inaudible conversations] welcome to the third mississippi book festival. Im with the department of archives and history. Have been asked to remind everyone you are more than welcome to take photographs, post to social media. Literary lawn party this is sponsored by the Humanities Council and friends of the library. Mississippi is fortunate to have a strong supporter of its literature, music and ar arts. Now in his fifth term in the u. S. House of representatives, congressman harper chairs the committee and serves on the committee of energy and commerce and perhaps most pertinently as the chair of the joint committee for the library of congress. [applause] thank you so much. What a great day for mississippi. Third annual mississippi book festival, all the work thats been done, he cant say enough to all of the people who have participated, but its my honor to have, in mississippi, doctor carla hayden who is the h library of Congress Sworn in on september 14, 2016 so still new on the job