Starting with one big picture question of all the enterprises affected by the pandemic yours has to be one fe. The most you are about mobility and people have not been mobile. What is the main discovery will surprise you are taken from this experience. We lost 80 percent in eight weeks. That was quite surprising. But maybe even more surprising isat what happened next. People, no matter the circumstances in the midst of epidemic still have a desire to travel. Didnt want to go to crowded hotels, they did want to get in the car and go to another community and live there somewhere getting homes from airbnb there is a fundamental desire to travel and connect and see the world i dont think anything can stop it let alone a pandemic especially if veyou do it responsibly but there is a strong will to see the world it has to be done in a much narrower context. Host airbnb is a new way to do something people have done for a long time to travel and lodging. Because there is a large structure of ar
And he didnt and he didnt. Less move on to our next artistic work. This is an etching by ladelbert work in 1963. Were in the second year where of the civil war. Its getting difficult to circulate battlefield heroes or triumphs and thats for one practical reason, most of the abledbodied artists were fighting in the war as soldiers. So this is an interesting thing to concept as far as sculptural monuments, there were none done at the time of the civil war, no artistic works. Tell us about the artist who created this etching. Hes also an american borne in bulgaria. Unlike most of the germans that came to the United States after the revolutions of the 1840 failed, he was an racist, not antislavery man. He settled in baltimore. The surroundings and environment make the man in a way. He was a dentist by trade and was obviously a very gifted draftsman. And he made these series of antiunion pro confederate etchings throughout the civil war and published them secretly with a fake london copyrig
Whats being done to modernize the library of congress. We heard testimony from dr. Carla hayden, the librarian of congress. This is a little more than an hour. [inaudible] who also chairs the appropriated committee for library and i think thats particularly helpful that you could be here as well. Also a member of this committee so shes here as a of the committee but also on these topics, particularly fallible in her role as appropriate. We have been having with the library, with the smithsonian, with the architect of the capitol these kinds of oversight hearings to fulfill that responsibility and be sure were giving the agencies to help they need. Were glad to be here of course with the librarian, dr. Carla hayden, with mr. Barton, the chief Information Officer and your temple, the register of copyrights. Thank all of you for being here today. I think we want to talk primarily police i want to talk primarily about monetization. We had a chance with dr. Hayden at the last meeting to tal
The head of the library of congress who testified before the senate rules and Administration Committee on modernizing library on efforts to digitizing secure documents and to describe the public would have more access to the collections. She was going to buy the Copyright Office director and bernard bartend the chief Information Officer of the library. Only a committee to the library i think that is particularly helpful you could be here with us today as well as a member of the Committee Said shes here as the committee and also on these topics particularly valuable in the roles of appropriating we have been having with the library, with the smithsonian, the architect of the capitol these kind of oversight hearings to fulfill that responsibility and be sure that we are giving the agencies that help they need. We are glad to be here of course with the library and doctor carla hayden and the librarys chief Information Officer and the register of copyrights. Thank you all for being here to
Only a committee to the library i think that is particularly helpful you could be here with us today as well as a member of the Committee Said shes here as the committee and also on these topics particularly valuable in the roles of appropriating we have been having with the library, with the smithsonian, the architect of the capitol these kind of oversight hearings to fulfill that responsibility and be sure that we are giving the agencies that help they need. We are glad to be here of course with the library and doctor carla hayden and the librarys chief Information Officer and the register of copyrights. Thank you all for being here today. I think we want to talk primarily at least i want to talk primarily about modernization. We had a chance at the last meeting to talk about the ideas of how to make a labor even more of an experience for people who visit. I think we want to talk today about how the modernization of the ailments are coming together and all of the services or being be