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historians. let s give him a big hand. [ applause ] i d also like to recognize and thank three extraordinary trustees board chair, pam shafler and rick reese and susan danalo with us tonight. give them a big hand as well. [ applause ] and we also want to thank our chairman s council and frederick douglas council members who are with us tonight for all their great work and support. one more hand. thank you. so the program tonight will last an hour and include a question and answer session and q and a is conducted via note cards. you should have received a note card and pencil. if not the staff are walking up and down the aisle and have cards and pencils to hand out. let them know and later on in the program we will be answering collecting the cards and answering your questions. we are thrilled to welcome randall kennedy back to the new york historical society. he s the michael r klein professor at harvard law school where he teaches courses on contracts and criminal ....
he s the author of the forthcoming book. the new york historical society hosted this hour long event. good evening. i m dale gregory. vice president for public programs and i m thrilled to welcome you to our spectacular robert h smith auditorium. tonight s program, the first amendment, the constitution on campus is part the bernard and schwartz distinguished speaker series which is the heart of the public programs. i would like to thank mr. schwartz for his support to invite so many authors and historians. let s give him a big hand. [ applause ] i d also like to recognize and thank three extraordinary trustees board chair, pam shafler and rick reese and susan danalo with us tonight. give them a big hand as well. [ applause ] and we also want to thank our chairman s council and frederick douglas council members who are with us tonight for all their great work and support. one more hand. thank you. so the program tonight will last an hour and include a question and ....
saturday live coverage of presidential candidates at the iowa state fair continues. we will hear from chris christie at noon and bobby jindel and then on sunday wisconsin governor scott walker holds a meeting. and then we are live at the minneapolis book testival. on sunday morning at 10, author and columnist chairs her critical thoughts on the relationship with millennials. and helping improve relationships between the public after the king assassination and the riots. in his book, bibliotech john palfrey talks about some of the challenges libraries face. he is head of school at the phillips academy in massachusetts and the founding member of the digital public library. he talked at the free library in philadelphia earlier this year. good evening, everyone. i would like to remind you no flash photography is presented during the event. following the event a book signing will take place in the lobby and don t forget most of the author events are offered as pod-cast a ....
famous names together, this music was very controversial. they bought shares in time warner and showed up to shareholder meeting meetings and protested demanding the executives remove the wrappers. needless to say they refused to do so. within a couple months morris was fired. he picked himself up and he dusted himself off and he began one of the second acts of american music business. signing all those same artists and cornering the market. in 2000 he signed the largest contract anyone ever seen and he made $200 million over the next ten years. when he did that he was presiding over an empire. that was because of a third guy guy who was really the most fascinating guy of all. his name was del glover and he was a compact disc manufacturing worker at a plant here in north carolina. he worked the packaging line so all the discs would come in a state right past him every day. there were about 1 million discs in a single day. because of all the big signings that were happen ....
free library.org. to them freelibrary.org. i am a librarian here and i am excited to introduce john palfrey who is the leading scholar on issues of emerging media and authority for internet freedom, transparency and accountability. he is the head of school at phill phill phill phillips academy and the board of directors at the digital library. his latest book, bibliotech argues for the necessity of finding and using the reservoir of online systems and the adaptive roles of libraries teaching this skill. it is said he challenges us to keep the library relevant as an information resource, archive, community gathering and a cornerstone of democracy for informed citizenry. please join me in welcoming me john palfrey to the free library of philadelphia. jennifer, thank you so much for your kind introduction and thank you andy and all of these who welcomed me to the free library of philadelphia. i could not be happier to be here to talk about this book. the amazing histor ....