Topnotch library in safe and welcoming environment throughout the city we promote literacy and learning and any opportunities for the residents in terms of Digital Strategies what that means were providing access to Public Technology ill drill down in the actual measures and seeks participating to leverage our dollars so we can do more with what we have and our 2k3w5e789 not the inclusion of any other resident weve targeted our citys youth with a lot of Services Cutting to the chase with the services in like that for focusing 7 by 7 totals hundred and 16. 5 million most of 67 percent is labor and benefits all those folks do a great job in the libraries and main library about 6 hundred and 62 for the library were pleased the budget pays back the debt so we have a healthy reserve to allow us to do that our collections represent 11 percent of the budget it is a healthy materials budget for e media and print materials so i want to talk about some of the key initiatives that are related to
What is your insight into president barack obama because of four dinners with them . He is a highly intelligent man. He is keenly interested in history and the way in which the president ial institution has evolved. What he could take away from past president ial performances to make his a more compelling and more successful administration. I wish we had some extraordinary answers to provide him, but of course the nature of history is that it is an imperfect humanistic enterprise. He understood this. We talked a Great Variety of things in those interviews, in those dinners. Roughly 12 historians. I wasnt the only one there. ,ome of his principal aides including one of his principal speechwriters. For me it was a fascinating experience to be able to sit right next to the president at dinner and have this kind of exchange with him. Anmany ways, it felt like academic seminar. He is someone who has been a. Rofessor of law it was like being in a seminar with a bunch of colleagues. Did you l
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