Jesus let me look into this as a portfolio of data that ive i purchased from florida tells couples hold and a lot of the members have been manipulated into the problems. And he but his attitude was not a shock, but kind of like this is part of the course in the business. Youre just purchasing data and you never know what youre purchasing. And its this kind of chilling end to the whole thing because of course youre not just purchasing data, youre purchasing the rights to collect on people in a profoundly affect their lives and somehow or another whoever stole it from aaron must have stolen it from someone else as well and to this day, but that is just floating around in cyberspace and someone else will buy it and try to collect on it. And somehow that more than anything else just kind of seemed to speak to the chaos and the dysfunctionality of this industry. Host you actually give one message to consumers and regulators to fix this; what is the take away . Guest you have to be skeptical
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 the Schomburg Center and harlem, the library for performing arts, the lincoln said, science industry and Business Library. Have about 2100 employees. We have a budget of about 280 million a year operating about half comes from the city of new york. Largely to pay for the circulating Library System in all the neighborhoods. The other half comes from a return on a billion dollar endowment of the pr
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 congress and the Public Library neighborhood system in washington d. C. The library of congress and the washington Public Library had nothing to do with each other organizationally here we are all within the new york public Library System. Close to 8,919,000,000 physical visits a year. 55 million items. It is really one of the great treasures of new york end of the world. Is our cars, prince, maps, m
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, operating, about half from the city of new york, largely to pay for the circulating Library System in the neighborhoods. The other half comes from return of a billion dollar en. Com that employs me, a trust, and that we raise somewhere between 80 and 100 municipal a year. Theres also 100 million a year. Theres also somewhere in the vicinity of 40 or 50 million a year of capital improvements, again mostly
Joyce appleby would you doing these days . Guest i am waiting for spring to arrive in mexicos lichens are guarding. Host i still writing . Guest no i am not or teaching i decided after nine books sizes start reading other peoples books and that is what i have been doing with great pleasure. Great pleasure. Host to miss being a ucla . Guest and his the people but no. Retirement is wonderful. Just wonderful you can do what you want to do you have time to read the newspaper for two hours in the morning if you want. No. The only downside is it chipolte page. Host what booker you best known for do you think . I dont know possibly inheriting the revolution which is a social history of the first generation of americans those born after 1776 with no colonial background they heard about the tradition from their fathers and grandfathers and if not that then perhaps the history of capitalism. I really dont know. You would have to ask somebody else that question. Host are you still active with the