I would like to now introduce our first moderator, Tracey Edwards tracy serves as long island director of the acp. Supporting ten branches in nassau and Suffolk County focused on education, Voting Rights and civic engagement. Public safety, criminal justice and environmental justice. As an elected member of the huntington town council, she focused on providing services to unemployed and underemployed residents, including job access to Job Development of life skills and access to not for profit assistance. So please join me in welcoming the stage. Councilwoman tracy edwards. Hi. Well, dont you look marvelous. I am thrilled to call moderate event with former congressman steve israel. Representative israel served in the us congress. From 2001 to 2017, including four years as chairman of the Democratic Congressional campaign committee. He left washington unindicted. He left washington undefeated and he. He left to pursue new passions and 2021, he opened a small independent bookstore for th
Perfect. Its ideas are made up by other people. Its okay to challenge ideas. And i love you and appreciate you being here. In [applause]e] and that is such a perfect way to end this session to r. K. Russell everyone. On behalf of the library of congress thank you for calmative National Book festival. We hope to see you through the rest of the day. [applause] next more conversation for 2023 library of congress National Book festival. Host joining usfi now at the National Book festival is the cochair of this years National Book festival David Rubenstein. How did you get involved with the National Book festival and when . Guest well, i got involved with the Madison Council which is a support arm of the library of congress. The liber congress getof most of its money from the federal government but not all of its money. There are support people around the country is aboard the library of congress. T i been followed for now, check the Madison Council as its called an part of the effort is to
Booktv on cspan2. Heres some of what you can look forward to. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden will discuss the development of the obama president ial center and library. Also biologist Brent Weinstein argues theres a mismatch between our brains in the way modern society is structured. And we discussed some of the books coming out this fall seonith Tampa Bay Times book critic. You can find a full schedule of what is airing today online at booktv. Org. Starting now we bring you our coverage of the 2023 library of Congress National book festival held in washington, d. C. Weekends on cspan2 on intellectual feast. Every saturday American History tv documents americas stories, and on sundays booktv bring to the latest and Nonfiction Books and authors. Funding for cspan2 comes on the Television Companies and more including comcast. Are you thinking this is just a Community Center . Its way more than that. Comcast is partnering with 1000 Community Centers to create lift zones so students ca
Libraries became safe havens when schools were closed and local businesses were closed. Your library stayed open. You are a personal hero and he thought you were the most capable individual possible to run the library of congress, so that was a good recommendation from a missourian about what you have done. Much more thanes the title would indicate. The library of congress is our countrys oldest Cultural Institution and was created by , 200 years ago. It was created to promote scholarship, to promote creativity and the goal to become a pro class repository for a vast touch of work. Leading the library of congress requires multitasking on a scale which is rarely necessary and almost any other organization. The Worlds Largest collection of books, including the largest database anywhere of copyrighted works. The library manages more than 3000 people. The library and serves as an impartial and objective head. In the library and oversees the librarianoffice oversees the Copyright Office. Ha
Every stillness every day will make movement more tolerable. For more information on bob tvs recent visit to Santa Barbara and the many other destinations on tower cities tour go to cspan. Org citiestour. Now a panel on the life and career of recent lid retired librarian of congress, james billington. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Please take your seats. Humbled to be next to any understanding is were live on cspan, so behave yourselves. Welcome to valentines day a bit early. Im jane harmon, the president and ceo of the Wilson Center and i cant imagine what the Wilson Center would look like today if nobody had been smart enough to put Jim Billington in charge. [applause] we have no Cannon Institute no wilson quarterly, two projects at the heart of what we do. 0 who knows how many friends and how much wisdom would we would have missed out on. Jim played a special role in my own education, my russian education. We crossed paths while i was in moscow on a congressional delegat