john zenelis, university librarian, shows us the collection entitled "beyond the book". >> the mind of brian lamb, this book is the genesis. all the "booknotes" programs on c-span -- by reading this book he decided he wanted to interview the author and that gave him the idea that -- of "booknotes". it would be worthwhile for him to read a lot of books and talk to the authors. >> host: 801 total episodes of "booknotes". this was the first official "booknotes". >> guest: exactly. dr. bzrzinsky was the chair of the institute of the council of the carter administration. >> host: john zenelis, when you pick the books to go in these, who carries this? >> several of my colleagues in the special collections and archives area. they made the collection of the works to be highlighted and the annotations accompanying each of the items and they chose a question on the "booknotes" televised program and produced the answer, the response to that question. >> host: you can see a lot of the notes taken while reading the book. when you put these books in the cases did you look for varying points of view

john zenelis, due out the books have notes? >> aviaries. i understand from brian originally he was not making annotations within the books themselves. he was making no separately. he has retained some of those notes but not all of them. but later on as the program progressed, he started making note in the books themselves. >> now, and the long-term, well that thinks they'd been opened as it is now to the air in the late? >> well, all physical materials overtime deteriorate. however, we have libraries especially in a special collections and archives, we have special environmental conditions to preserve pay per and anything that is written on paper. so under proper care, this writing should last for centuries. this particular books can only be used on site and the reading room of special collections and archives to which we will be going to later. however, we have other copies available and the general collection at the library is available for situations. >> some more notes from one of the books. why did this one get one up? what was special

. >> host: john zenelis, when you pick the books to go in these display cases, who cure rated this, by the way? >> guest: several of my colleagues in the special collections and archives area. they made the selections, showed the works to be highlighted, and they made the an annotations accompanying each of the displayed items, and they chose to select a question asked on the "book notes" televised program by brian lamb and then reproduced the answer, the response provided by the author to that question. >> host: and here again in the ben franklin book you can see a lot of notes taken while reading the book. when you put these books in the cases, did you look for varying points of view as c-span does in general? >> guest: yes, exactly so. earlier i mentioned one of the criteria was to reflect the broad perspective involved in "book notes," and that's exactly the point. there are various subjects covered in the 801 books, and secondly, many m points -- certainly, many, many points of view from a political perspective, a social perspective, humanistic perspective, all kinds of perspectiv