This goes back to 1775. Weve been had to raffle tickets. Somell be giving away books. Inase join me at this time welcoming randy and james. [applause] i am going to introduce myself. Randy will be giving most of the presentation. I will be here for questions and answers. Ive volunteered after i got my ba in history in 2010. I began volunteering at the National Archives. In 2012, i became a student technician. Degree inasters Library Science at that same time. In 2014, i went to st. Louis and worked at the National Archives at st. Louis. In 2016, i moved back to california. Im going to turn over to randy. He can give you his bio. Thank you. Welcome. I want to thank the wonderful introduction. I want to thank our friends at the North Hollywood library and the sherman oaks friends of the library asking us to come out. I hope you enjoyed the earlier events. I have been with the national in Southern California since 1995. I took a summer job, just pulling materials upon request. That is las
Wrap this up. H will be signing copies of the book. So if you dont have that, we have copies for everyone in our exhibit hall is just left, right out of the auditorium here. And then that first left there. And thank you all again for coming and enjoy the rest of your day. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. I really im carla hayden and im very pleased to welcome you to the law library of congress, 190th anniversary celebrate nation. It was on this day in 1832 that the law Library Congress was created as a depart of the library of congress by statute. Since that time, the law library has grown to be the largest law library in, the world featuring an unparalleled collection of domestic, foreign, international and comparative legal materials. This collection so large that the sub basement stacks of the madison building, which contains most of law librarys collection, is an incredible one and a half football in length. But of course, the impressive are only half the story. The law librarys de
Books and books and Miami Book Fair presented an evening with Cory Doctorow discussing choke point capitalism. How big tech and big content captured creative labor markets, and how well win them back. Choke point capitalism is a call action for the Creative Class and labor Labor Movement to rally against the power of big tech in big media. Cory doctorow is a best selling Science Fiction writer and activist. He is special advisor to the electronic frontier, with whom hes worked for 20 years. He is also a visiting professor of computer science, the open university and a Library Science at the university of North Carolina. He is also an Mit Media Lab researcher. Brilliant. He cofounded the cofounding uk open rights group and coowns the website boing boing. He is the author than 20 books, including novels for young adults, graphic novels for middle grade readers, picture books and nonfiction, books on technology politics. You can follow him twitter at doctorow. And before i think of any mo
americas diplomatic personne from the u.s. embassy in the capital city of khartoum there are still thousands of private american citizens stuc amid the fighting. we re following the stor closely. going to bring in the latest throughout the next two hours. mike pence is finally come out strongly against donald trum on one key issue, not the on you think. we ll get the latest from iowa where they both spoke to conservative evangelicals last night. for today s meeting of the velshi banned book club, we re paying tribute to the public library. once a community fixture, safe haven to explore differen worlds and learn new ideas, it has become the battleground fo the ideological fight over books. nowhere are libraries unde greater threat than in texas that s where we re heading t talk to shirley robinson executive director of the texa library association about th fight for the freedom to redeveloped she starts now it is sunday april 23rd, i m ali velshi we begin with the republican
Minute, see you at 19 00. Just 6 minutes a day reduces stress levels by almost 70 . Moreover, it has been scientifically proven that this process helps, at an elegant age, to reduce the likelihood of developing alzheimers disease by two and a half times. Im now talking about reading another scientific fact not a single electronic version can replace a traditional paper book. But today its not about books, but about what, according to the outstanding advice the scientist konstantin rubinskys development of even science itself is unthinkable. Our focus for the next half hour will be on libraries. My name is ekaterina beretskaya. Hello and dont miss out on the program. The first woman librarian in russia was belarus, who will tell the history of the issue in our column. Lets figure out how it works. The largest Scientific Library today, we have a center for the study of early printed publications, it was created at the beginning of this year, it has two departments, lets take a look at th