Axelrod tonight a big week, a big storm, slow ice and rain blanket it is southwest and the system slowly moves east, just as we hit the businessth travel week of the than 24 hourn Historic Nuclear Agreement with iran, the a feedback comes from around the world. Margaret brennan has the reports. The vat scan revives 2000yearold mystery, publicly unveiling the bones of a st. , alan pizzey is in rome. And the bocus library, the look of future in one citys present. It doesnt look like a library. Thats the point. This is the captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. Axelrod good evening, everyone, i am jeff glor, in dallas tonight officials declared something they are calling Ice Force Level 1, that may sound odd but this early season storm is not a joke. Eight people have died so far and tens of millions of facing potentially dangerous weather this week. Already, 300 flights have been canceled, here is a look at where the storm ise m te than a foot of snow in parts of new m
Of time. I doubt if the same decisions on extending copyrights through the ages would pass in todays environment. Whether it is pared back as a matter for legislators and the one making process to look at, but clearly the copyright itself should be maintained. Whether it should be maintained exactly in this framework is an open question. Access where do you stand on this . Spending money on the book. [talking over each other] a lot of books [talking over each other] there are materials that are locked up, the orphan works or things that libraries all over the world find, and that is why we are very hopeful that the Digital Public Library of america will help with the digitization of materials and also the projects that are going on so that you can unleash these things. We would love to think about it, and millions and millions, also think about the digitization that is going to take. That [talking over each other] they have a lousy deal on the publishing side. But still in process. The
Put my candy bar in this book and we will pay you but they do that for the movies. There was the Product Placement novel and it was quite controversial and it was a prank but it fell back in her face. Talkedabout the nonprofit world in this world to talk of the Carnegie Foundation to help publishers to put up the muslim world bookshelf that is 30 books on muslim cultural issues 300 libraries in the country with a cooperative effort with institutions of governance that the libraries are. There is cooperative effort that does take place and officials come to mind my favorite example and lolita says when she speaks to her students she would say can you name in american president of the 19th century . They would say what about Abraham Lincoln . She would say can you name in American Literary figure . They all say mark twain. Who has a bigger impact . A literary figure or political figure . When it is really the driving circumstance. It is advertising. I always insisted putting advertising
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