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CSPAN2 Book TV August 24, 2009

.. is about 50 minutes. i want to start by thanking the library of congress. it really is an exceptional library in the world. access to all people, whatever their nationality, free, at no charge, extended hours in the evenings and on saturdays. even formally sunday afternoons so perfect for people who are working at other jobs. it provides shelves for researchers, study desks. and no charge for reproducing images. this is really quite amazing and this is true for everyone so thank you to the library of congress. now, for my particular work the library has also been exceptionally helpful because there are very few libraries in the united states whose collections go back as far as the first half of the century. if you used the national union catalog and looking for books on sciences coming out of the europe and britain, you see dlc which is the abbreviation for the library of congress. the holdings are here and they re access enjoyable all. accessible to all. anoth ....

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CSPAN2 Book TV August 24, 2009

bicentennials. er books include the red notebook of the charles darwin s and charles darwin s notebooks 1836 to 1844. for more, visit umbc.edu and search her name. i m constance carter, head of the science and technology division of the library of congress and today we re here in the theater of the library of congress madison building. on this side of the table, we have the correspondence of charles darwin. he was born in 1809 and died in 1882. and here we have the first 16 volumes of his correspondence going up to 1868. we expect the volumes to end at probably 36. and i have some selected correspondence such as this charles darwin s letters edited by fred burkhart and i like this particular volume because it s dedicated to me here and inscribed to me. and it says for connie, for whom so many of us thank god. and my brother, who thinks i m lower than dirt, saw this and has treated me like a queen ever since. and here we have a piece from 1873. when i worked on the co ....

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