At the Roosevelt Library, we completed a full redo of our permanent exhibit in 2013. And joining me today to discuss how these projects are done is clay bauske, the supervisory curator at the Harry S Truman president ial museum in missouri. Clay and his team are in the final stages of redoing their permanent exhibit. Where do things stand right now and what is your projected opening date for the new permanent exhibit . Clay we are probably within two months of having the new exhibits done and ready to open. The big question with all the libraries is when will the libraries actually open to the public. We are not really sure about that, but the work on our new permanent exhibits we are within two months of being done. Herman so the exhibits are being installed as we speak . Clay yes. Essentially all of the general construction in our museum we went in and had contractors literally rip out everything in the museum and start from scratch. That included installing all new walls in the exhi
Eberhardt from the friendly d roosevelt president ial library and clay bauske of the president truman president ial library talk about the factors that led to the remaking of their museums and the thought that goes into overhauling their exhibits. The two discuss what their job as curators entail. The fdr president ial library hosted the conversation and provided video. The am Herman Eberhardt at franklin was of a president ial library and museum and i want to welcome you to a new series of programs featuring conversations between me and curators at other president ial libraries. In this series we will explore the various jobs and roles of museum curators. Today we will be talking about one of the most important and complicated jobs of a curator, developing new Museum Exhibits. Curators are responsible for providing new changing exhibits on special topics on a regular basis in their museums. They also make periodic alterations to the museums larger permanent exhibits to reflect changin
Now,s we have a rather large crowd this morning for this particular session. And thats why im very thrilled to introduce the next program. For the past year at the library of congress you may sit down because i have a few more things im going to say. The past years the library of congress, we have been celebrating changemakers, and i can think of few people who fit the description in the United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. [applause] at 4 a. M. This morning, students from American University camp out in front of this facility and they are here. To talk about the graduation from Columbia Law School and spent most of your career advocatingfo all of these things and youve been called recently the beyonce of jurisprudence. She said i would rather you say jlo. [laughter] without further ado shes joined by the coauthors of her bestselling memoir, coauthors mary come adjunct professor at georgetown law Professor Emeritus at georgetown law and her interviewer today and the
I said for 28 years for the Library Congress and retired a couple years ago. He told me that the National Book festival was something he needed help with and had been started in 2001 as an idea that came from laura bush, laura bush asked Jim Billington around the time of the inauguration in 2001 whether not there was a National Book festival comparable to the one she started in the texas, the texas book festival he said there is not yet but there will be. He came up with the idea of how to put together National Book festival, the idea was to do it in the mall in a series of tents that were set up for the first year end then it turned out getting sponsorships were more difficult than they thought it would be. So he asked me if i get involved and i told him i would do so and i began to be a sponsor and a cochair of the event, ive done that for ten years or so. It is very important to me that the festival goes well and i enjoyed a great deal is a great gift for the country to have a natio
At the library in time for the 250th anniversary of the declaration of independence in 2026. She also responded to questions about how the u. S. Copyright office, which is housed under the library of congress, will be used to protect copyrighted works amid growing use of Artificial Intelligence. The Senate Hearing is about an hour. A number of senators mentioned that they were fans of you and your work, including people from both sides of the aisle. Putting that out there first. Chair klobuchar i think i mentioned this before. Maybe senator phish doesnt know, my dream growing up was to be a librarian. I had a dewy decimal system set up with the books i read in the recipe box. Instead, we are here. We are here, in fact, to discuss the Largest Library in the world and the oldest federal Cultural Institution in the United States. The library of congress. Two weeks ago the library celebrated its 223rd birthday. As we know the library holds over 175 million books, manuscripts, and other mat