carla was president of the american library association from 2003 to 2004 in the first african-american to receive the library journals i brain of the year award. she was good enough to join us for an interview for one of pew's after-the-fact podcasts. she called libraries baskin's of equal opportunity. she told us the library and is there to give you unbiased access to information, and that's an idea that all of us at pew can understand, appreciate and strive to achieve. now, it is my very great pleasure to welcome and sit down with carla hayden, librarian of congress. [applause] carla: thank you, susan for that lovely introduction. that's the introduction you want your mother to hear. [laughter] >> i hope your mother is watching. carla: i'm sure she has. at 91 she keeps up with a lot of things. >> you told me when we were chatting just before that today is a 200 23rd anniversary of the library of congress. yay for that. it's also national library week and it's also pew's anniversary, and it's also the day we are having this conversation, so that is a lovely group of events and very ap

ten of thousands library and information professionals and committed staff that make the american library association. i. it was a scholarship to attend library from l.a. that me to turn my passion for, literacy and information access into a quest that has steered my life. i forever work to pay investment in me forward. inevitably, when tell someone you are a librarian, they comment you must really love to. surely loving reading is a prerequisite. but loving reading not what makes you a librarian what makes one? a librarian is when you begin to truly understand that our democracy depends on people having the opportunity to, think and write and and share their stories openly what one a librarian is. once you witness the transformation that occurs when someone comes across a book or resource that truly flips on a switch in their lives and changes their lives after that, you want everyone have that same opportunity and you are willing to fight for it. it is a universal truth that one of the real tests liberty is the right to read. please, please stand against this effort to limit access to reading. i in

recently the foundation awarded the san francisco public library $2 million to work with the american library association to shine a light on our best practices here in san francisco, and really help our peers in the industry learn how they can replicate the service model that we are doing here in san francisco. >> that's great. well, thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming on the show, mr. lambert. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you, chris. that's it for this episode, we will be back shortly. you are watching san francisco rising. thanks for watching. okay good evening, and welcome to the may 17th 2023 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals. president rick swig will be the presiding officer tonight and he is joined by commissioner og slumber and commissioner jr. eppler vice president lopez and commissioner trasvina are absent this evening . also present is deputy city attorney gen. huber who will provide the board of any needed legal advice. at the controls of the board's legal system long way and i'm julie rosenberg, the board's executive director. we will also be joined b

depalma received a children's literature legacy award from the american library association in 2011 and postage stamp art features the cover of stranger. no doubt. and now a conversation with author and professor brooke allen, who teaches the humanities to inmates at a maximum security prison in upstate new york. she recently wrote a piece in the wall street journal about her experience and titled college should be more like prison. so brooke allen, what is the bennington college prison education initiative and how did you get involved in this? well, bard college started a prison education program. it must be close to 20 years ago now. i think quite a long time. it was very success. and my colleague at bennington, anabel davis, who's a writer and and teacher at bennington, decided that she thought this is quite fabulous and she would try to start a similar one at bennington. and so she contacted a prison, which is it's not that close. it's about an hour from bennington in comstock, new york. and after men's maximum security prison and after a lot of jumping through hoops and filling out

depalma received a children's literature legacy award from the american library association in 2011 and the new postage stamp art features the cover of stranger. no doubt. and now a conversation with author and professor brooke allen, who teaches the humanities to inmates at a maximum security prison in upstate new york. she recently wrote a piece in the wall street journal about her experience and titled college should be more like prison. so brooke allen, what is the bennington college prison education initiative and how did you get involved in this? well, bard college started a prison education program. it must be close to 20 years ago now. i think quite a long time. it was very success. and my colleague at bennington, anabel davis, who's a writer and and teacher at bennington, decided that she thought this is quite fabulous and she would try to start a similar one at bennington. and so she contacted a prison, which is it's not that close. it's about an hour from bennington in comstock, new york. and after men's maximum security prison and after a lot of jumping through hoops and fil

you know, the american library association tracks what they call book challenging, what we might call increasing at a tremendous rate in the speech -- graduation speech at yale you mentioned. i told the graduating seniors that five times as many books had been banned now compared to 2019 when they entered college in the first place. so, i mean, i think also the question for those people graduating with their education is, what does it mean if some people have access to knowledge? and it is kept from others? >> it was a different commencement address, a different ivy league school, but president eisenhower at d dartmouth said, don't join the book burners. thank you so much for being on the show. >> thank you so much. >>> daylight just breaking in guam where a typhoon is slamming that american territory with strong winds, heavy rain, mudslides, blackouts. a look at the most powerful storm to hit that island in 60 years. stay with us. that's it. miracle-gro. all yoyou need to know to grow. ♪ pets are raw. raw curiosity. raw love. raw energy. no dog ever thought, “what if someone sees me

recently the foundation awarded the san francisco public library $2 million to work with the american library association to shine a light on our best practices here in san francisco, and really help our peers in the industry learn how they can replicate the service model that we are doing here in san francisco. >> that's great. well, thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming on the show, mr. lambert. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you, chris. that's it for this episode, we will be back shortly. you are watching san francisco rising. thanks for watching. >> i think a lot of times we get in adult lives we are afraid to follow our passions and think life can't be that easy. but i truly do believe i followed my heart this time in my journal in city government i did not know that is where my passion lied. i kept following it and ltd. to great opportunity to serve the city. [music] >> i'm katy tang the executive director of the office of small business. >> small business contributes to san francisco's economy. they provide the bulk of employment in the city and employing a million people

that is in contradiction of the best practice guidelines the american library association and othershould follow. where if there is an objection, books should remain on the shelves while the objections are adjudicative. there are more than 10 books that have been banned entirely. this effort disproportionately targets books by and about authors of color, lgbtq narratives. we are bringing a challenge under the boat the first amendment and 40 commitment. the first amendment because these bans and removals violate children's right to read in the 14th amendment because they raised equality concerns. when books are targeted based on the stories told, who is telling the stories, what is the color or sexual orientation of the characters, that violates our protections for equality and education. we are asking the school board to put these books back on the shelves and the courts vindicate the children's right to read. amy: can you explain what this stop woke act says and how it allows for banned books? how specific is it or is it the vagueness is what is so threatening? >> it is really the v

i also think that pan-america and the american library association are full of propaganda about the useanned books. books are not routinely banned in america. if you're talking about taking a book off of a shelf rightly or wrongly at a library, that is not like banned in boston. that's like not available for kids through third grade is not the same thing as a ban. that said, there is this atmosphere out there -- i credit target when they're saying that they were doing things about keeping their employees safe. but obviously the experience of bud light, which you mentioned, is looming over a lot of this. bud light has lost massive sales. and everybody is so terrified to get caught up cross-wise in a controversy that they actually just get pulled into them. >> yeah. we should talk more about this, and we will. nair and jonah, thanks so much. really appreciate your time. >> thank you. >>> look out for two new cnn republican presidential town halls. i'm going to moderate one. a discussion with former u.s. ambassador nikki haley. i'll be facilitating her talking to i iowans. sunday june 4th

people that there are organizations that can join or support, not just the big ones like american library associationica, the comic book legal defense fund. there's all kinds of groups that are out there, and it's really important. i was looking at this, this is the ninth anniversary, may of 1933 when they burned 20,000 books at a plaza in berlin. we knew even then, and later of course it became horribly true, they weren't just trying to burn ideas. they were going to come for the alters of those ideas and the people represented in those books. that's exactly what the nazi state. so this is not just a cultural preference or we don't want to hear about lgbtq in this town, this is really a lot at stake and people should make sure that they understand that and get involved in the fight. >> and the horrific quote that came out of that time, that is proof tragically true, the place where they burn books they will certainly burn people. >> one thing internally about that was in tennessee where the superintendent basically told the librarian she couldn't read these two books, one that was about a little gir

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their hollywood walk of dolls will be hosted by the american black beauty doll association of fundraising event is at the african american museum and librarynclusivity in the dull industry. i'd say on the counters are in the stores the last five years we have seen an increase and then the different tones of brown. so just like coffee. some people want a little cream in there. still you know their coffee, so it's just all of the shades that are represented, and it's really wonderful to see. they have a variety of collectible dolls, many of which were donated and are limited editions. the show will run from 11 this morning to five, and it includes an auction in a silent auction, and by the way, admission is free and once again at oakland's african american museum and library today. well as police expected, several slide shows went down in the bay area last night. a closer look that one in one that turned into a two car fire that's after the break. also ahead. history bathed this morning king charles, the third officially crowned the new king this morning. when we come back, we'll take you live to london with the biggest moments of today's bi

libraries, they are jewels in the crown of american letters. so many lessons come from the files and we are proud to be associated with them at the hauenstein center and the ford foundation have always had a great relationship, the fact that the two men, brian knows the story well, they met each other on the gridiron when playing high school football and they were lifelong friends. president ford's vision with ralph hauenstein is to have a great presidential study center and presidential foundation in concert. that imparts leadership lessons in the 21st century. >> one of the fallacies, people have taken on a presidential primary, what you are learning his leadership. you are learning that things make a difference in this country. how things get done is an extraordinary service. i'm not surprised that they were friends. not surprised at all. that ralph hauenstein's service in world war ii as a testimony to that. >> we only have time for one more. you are addressing a west michigan audience, you have any observations, comparisons, of dwight eisenhower and gerald ford? >> there's always a strong comparison. i've been around politicians a lot. ford i

library. that was my ad lib. where she now serves on the is aa gubernatorial appointment even. she was the first woman and the first african-american to serve as president of the abraham lincoln association. and that is in honor of which i am very proud. [applause] and i and i served as presim 2016-2018, and lo and behold i still and keeping up my membership. okay. our first presenter this afternoon is someone we've seen a lot, some going to tell you a little bit about him. jonathan white, vice chairman of the lincoln forum, is professor of american studies at christopher newport university. he is the author or editor of 13 books, the latest of which the revelatory volumes, house built by slaves. i have a friend in springfield, michael burlingame, who says you don't have to read the book but you do have to buy it. [laughing] >> hear, hear. [laughing] >> a house built by slaves,, african-american visitors to the lincoln white house which is published in 2002 and to address you as my friend, abraham lincoln african-americans letters to abraham lincoln which is published in 2021. among his other works of the award-winning emancipation the union army and the reelection of a vamp lincoln in 2

library. that was my ad lib where she now serves on the board, which is a gubernatorial appointment even. she was the first woman and and the first african-american to as president of the abraham association. and that is honor of which i am very proud. if and i served as president from 2016 to 2018, and lo and behold i still keeping up my membership. okay. our first presenter or this afternoon is someone we we've seen a lot. so i'm going to tell you a little bit about him. jonathan white vice chairman the lincoln forum is professor of american studies at christopher university. he is the author or editor of 30 books, the latest of which are the revelatory volumes. a house built by slaves. i have a friend in springfield, michael burlingame, who says, you don't have to read the book, but you do have to buy your. a house built by slaves, african-american visitors to the lincoln white house, which was published in 22. and to address you as friend. abraham lincoln african-americans letters to abraham lincoln, which was published in 2021. among his other works are the award winning emancipation. the union army and the reelection of abraham lincoln. in 2014, midnight, america, darkness, sleep an