Woodruff and, bringing poetry to chicagos schools. How the nations first Mexican American poet laureate is urging students to find their voice through verse. The poetry is there, rumbling in what they see day to day. We want to bring all that out. Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the Trump White House has spent this day fending off questions about ties to russia, relations with germany, and staff shakeups. All of this, as the president tries to move ahead amid the turmoil. John yang has our report. Reporter it was the first oncamera White House Briefing in more than two weeks, but topic a was still the russian connection. Press Secretary Sean Spicer brushed aside reports that president ial
Woodruff and, bringing poetry to chicagos schools. How the nations first Mexican American poet laureate is urging students to find their voice through verse. The poetry is there, rumbling in what they see day to day. We want to bring all that out. Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the Trump White House has spent this day fending off questions about ties to russia, relations with germany, and staff shakeups. All of this, as the president tries to move ahead amid the turmoil. John yang has our report. Reporter it was the first oncamera White House Briefing in more than two weeks, but topic a was still the russian connection. Press Secretary Sean Spicer brushed aside reports that president ial
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City, booktv visited the New York Public Library where we thought what the librarys president and ceo, it anthony marx about the history of the institution as well as its Current Operations and future. Host tony marx, lets start with some numbers. How big is the New York Public Library . How many employees, budget, et cetera . Guest the New York Public Library circulates the largest in america. 88 branches in every neighborhood diversely serve as well as for Important Research libraries, this one being the crown jewel at the center of the system, but also the Schaumburg Center in harlem, library for performing arts at Lincoln Center and science industry and is this library. We have about 2100 employees. We have a budget of about 280 million a year operating about half comes from the city of new york, largely to pay for the circulating Library System in all the neighborhoods. The other half comes from return on the billion dollars endowment of the private foundation that employs me, the
On a recent trip to new york city, booktv visited the New York Public Library where we spoke with the librarys president and ceo, anthony marx, but the history of the institution as well as its Current Operations and future. Lets start with some numbers. How big is the New York Public Library . How many employees, budget, et cetera . New York Public Library combines the largest circulating Branch Library system in america, 88 branches, in every neighborhood in the boroughs we serve, as well as for Important Research libraries. This one being the crown jewel at the center of the system but also the Schomburg Center and harlem, the library for performing arts, the lincoln said, science industry and Business Library. Have about 2100 employees. We have a budget of about 280 million a year operating about half comes from the city of new york. Largely to pay for the circulating Library System in all the neighborhoods. The other half comes from a return on a billion dollar endowment of the pr