Inspire us to investigate and archivesur nations that among the holdings are documents going back to 1775. We have been handing out raffle tickets. That some books. Please welcome hello, im going to introduce myself. Randy will be giving most of the presentation. A little background about myself , i volunteered. After i got my ba in history in 2010 i began volunteering at the National Archives at riverside and then in 2012 i became a student archives technician at the National Archives at riverside and then i got my masters degree in library and Information Science at that same time from san jose state university. And then in 2014, i moved to st. Louis and worked at the National Archives at st. Louis as a preservation technician and then in 2016 i moved back to california and then in my current role as an archives specialist. Im going to turn it over to randy here and he can give you his bio. Thank you, james. Welcome, everybody. I want to thank mr. Garza for his wonderful introduction
Because after the q a well be giving away what the friends of the library love to give away more than anything else and thats some books to some lucky winners so please join us at this point in welcoming from the National Archives at riverside. Randy thompson and james artoon. \[applause] hi, im going to introduce myself. Randy will be giving most of the presentation. Ill be here for questions and answer. Just a little background about myself. I volunteered after i got my b. A. In history from cal state San Bernardino in 2010, i began volunteering at the National Archives at riverside and then in 2012 i became a student archives technician at the National Archives at riverside and then i got my masters degree in library and Information Science at that same time from san jose state university. And then in 2014, i moved to st. Louis and worked at the National Archives at st. Louis as a preservation technician and then in 2016 i moved back to california and then in my current role as an a
Now,. Host so in a sense is it like a library . Guest what we are really focused on something that we dont think others are which is recreating that great corner bookstore and bringing it to mobile devices which we believe is the most common way that people read. We do that with an emphasis on the beautiful design, easy and intuitive user experience, great book recommendations from dedicated editorials and our design team. Spee1 where did this idea for oyster come from . Spee2 it was was formed in the summer of 2012 we introduced our first Consumer Product which is our iphone app and the summer of 2013. It was founded by three guys, i think there are two things going through their mind, number one they didnt see any reading experience that they thought was a great mobile reading experience. Phones, tablets, devices, tablets, devices that people have with them all the time are very natural platform for reading and they didnt think there was a reading space theyre happy with. In addition
The role of kansas. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] we continue with d. W. Carter, author of mayday over wichita the worst military aviation disaster in kansas history. It is about the 1965 crash ofan air force tanker into an africanamerican neighborhood in wichita. The crash killed the planes seven crew members and 23 people on the ground. All of a sudden the house was shaking and i looked out the window and the house was on fire and i raced downstairs to get my sisters and brothers. I came down to get them. I couldnt get here fast enough. It looked like everything was getting in my way and i couldnt realize what was going on. I started running up and down the street until i got here. Until i get in the house. E crash occurs 9 30 a. M. The plane went down at 20th and piatt street in wichita. Ofcrash landed in a section wichi
Here are a few of the book festivals we will be covering this spring on cspans booktv. We will visit maryland for live coverage of the gaithersburg full book festival with congressman tom davis as well as former Senior Adviser to president Obama David Axelrod and we will close out me at book expo america new york city where the Publishing Industry showcases their upcoming books. On the first week in june we are live for the Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest including three and our live in Depth Program with pulitzer prize, on booktv. Welcome to topeka on booktv located in the northeast region of kansas, topeka is its capital city with a round 127,000 residents. Leading into the civil war this region was the site of many border clashes will screen pro and anti Slavery Forces earning it the nickname breeding the the leading kansas. It became known as the site of the landmark 1957 Supreme Court case brown vs. The board of education which declared racial segregation in Public Schools u