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[applause] [inaudible conversations] you are watching booktv on cspan2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. And as booktv continues book tour of the New York Public Library we are now joined by isaac gerwirtz. What do you do here . On curator of the berg collection of english and American Literature. How did you get that position . I worked in the new Public Library in the past. Ive been in the rare book division, was later a curator at Methodist University and downtown at the general theological seminary, st. Marks library. And got a doctorate and renaissance history at columbia and all that led to my being here. How long have you been at the New York Public Library . As a curator since septembe september 2000. You brought something sal to show us that you have in the collection. I have. The berg is an enormous collection, about 2000 linear feet and tens of thousands of printed items. This is what i like to call the tip of th

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