it may surprise a lot of people that the library of congress houses cartoons. we have 128,000 cartoons and 14,460 of those by mr. bloch. it was one of the missions of the library of congress, the document and creativity, the intelligence of the american people. finally, i think it is a mark of a free society that we can gather opinions with which we do not agree and collect them and preserve them for future generations. there are a lot of countries in the world where nobody would dare do that. it is an example of one of the artists collected. people can look at the original in our reading room. anybody can come to the herb block gallery whenever the library of congress is open to the public. >> discussing the failues or john delorian and elon musk.

of the library of congress is partnering with the imagination library and to celebrate the program and what you are doing the last friday of every month is going to be a special imagination library storytime and they will be available and so it will be live streamed to libraries throughout the country and so people can participate. we are delighted that you have agreed to kick it off and actually read right here and starts the imagination library storytime at the library of congress. guest: i can do that. you want me to read "coat of many colors"; right? are we going down? host: i think we are going down to be a little closer. guest: okay. i think they are going to have me come down there. host: we are going down. guest: you be careful. you hold onto me and i'm going to hold onto him. hello. hello, kids, do you want me to read a book to you? you do? well, i'm gunner. i have to get my book the lady glasses on, so i can see. how is that? do i look like the book lady now? okay, this is called, it says dolly parton. that's my name. what is your name? well, nice to see you, sammy. this says

the library of congress has the herblock collection. we have about 14,460 of his editorial cartoons, but we have nearly all of the work he produced for the washington post. he did give away cartoons to friends but we have the majority of his output. mr. block drew cartoons about presidents from hoover to the second george bush. and so you get to see how his career evolved, how his opinions changed, see how he drew particular presidents. obviously i've just brought out a selection of cartoons to get a sense of how he perceived different presidents and how his style evolved. the first cartoon we have is about herbert hoover who which was the first president that mr. block covered. and it shows hoover at the camp before camp david existed. hoover favored a camp further down in the shenandoah mountains in rapidan, virginia. so mr. block has depicted hoover leading a couple of capitalists so his camp and they're fishing. and then instead of getting economic benefits in the perhaps in the form of cash incentives, the capitalists get some fresh

it may surprise a lot of people that the library of congress houses cartoons. we have 128,000 cartoons and 14,060 of those by mr. block. it was one of the missions of the library of congress, the document and creativity, the intelligence of the american people. finally, i think it is a mark of a free society that we can gather opinions with which we do not agree and collect them and preserve them for future generations. there are a lot of countries in the world where nobody would dare do that. it is an example of one of the artists collected. people can look at the original in our reading room. anybody can come to the herb block gallery whenever the library of congress is open to the public. >> on c-span this week in prime time. monday at 8:00 p.m. eastern health executives and challenges facing hospitals in the state of american health care. now go foran screening more effectively when they have insurance. it has driven down the death rate in all three of those cancers because people got identified and diagnosed earlier. tuesday at 8:00 eastern. >> we are worki

feeling. >> as i said at the beginning we are so honored the 100 millionth book given to the library of congress. [applause] >> i want to say how honored i am that you have taken this to heart and now we will have this book that i can have here forever for all of the little children in the united states of america to have this and hopefully through the years we have 1 million books so far maybe he will leave feedback for the 1 billion went that be nice? [applause] >> ear is a little story this lady right here, what is your name again? [laughter] but i hope you had as much fun drawing this. >> i did it is such an honor i love getting to illustrate. >> my dad was very important but my mother wanted to make everybody feel special. . . . . is this about love and understanding. the curtains she used to make out of scraps of people that send to us. that's where she is to piece it anappeaseit and it inspired they from the bible. we had a couple of movies and it got good ratings so it does show people are about family and loved and it's gooloveand it's h and love. this day in time we don't have enough f

host: not only will the library of congress have the hundred millionth book, all of the young people here today you just heard the wonderful story, you will get your own copy of "coat of many colors". guest: yes, you are. you can read it on your own. host: you can take it away with you as you leave, and you are

back to the library of congress? >> we can't. >> you can't? >> we can't. let me explain what's going on. >> no, no. that's fine. that's the answer in and of itself. so the library of congress will have that as less of an expense in their budget because they won't be doing that in-house at all anymore? >> let's have this conversation. this is important to understand. just to be clear, the library's internal process does not go away. it's still available to employees. nor does the library's collective bargaining agreements that they had with their unions, there is an arbitration proceeding, that still stays in place. what the omnibus does it is brings library employees into our process for only certain types of claims. claims associated with discrimination, fairly standard act cases, and family and medical leave act cases. >> i see that. so how many people -- how many full-time equivalence is going to be doing that? >> well, the hearing officers and the media are contractors for us. we're not bringing somebody full-time

the library of congress houses the largest collection of political cartoons by herbert block, known as herblock. the cartoons are featured in the journal white house historical association. herblock's career spanned 72 years and he covered presidents from herbert hoover to george w. bush. the library's sara duke talked to us about his influence and

the library of congress has is the largest collection of political cartoons. they are featured in the journal of the white house historical association. coveredrlock presidents from herbert hoover to george w. bush. he was a midwestern born cartoonist. in 1929, sixs work months before the great depression. he was a moderate conservative. it pushed him further toward the center by the great depression and the injustice of world war ii. in 1933 he joined the newspaper enterprise association. that was situated in cleveland, ohio. 1946, he joined the washington post where he spent the rest of his career. hisied to six weeks after last cartoon appeared in the washington post. his last cartoon appeared on august 26. his 92ndust before birthday. we have about 14,000 of his editorial cartoons. he did give away cartoons to friends. we have the majority of his output. future cartoons about presidents from hoover to the second george bush. see how his career evolved, his opinions have changed. i brought out a selection of his of hows to give a sense they perceived differ

part of that process determines with research that the library needs to be more user centered. we'll have of course, congress as the library's formal user. as a result of this planning, internal units to prepare for that move forward. and i am confident that these steps will give us a robust management structure to move forward. now, the physical 2019 budget request and bills on the past two years and information technology modernization targeted work force skills and details are provided in my written testimony and highlights include ongoing investment in copyright information technology modernization. as we move to the development of a new generation of the registration system and a modern recordation system which is many people may not realize is currently paper based and manual. we'll have an investment in our crs service with more analyst and economists and attorneys and also full copyright and examine work force and additional language and expertise for the library. we are forcing investment in library services that'll speed up the process of significant collections of backlog that includes collections

it's available from the library of congress. it's online. so i would encourage everybody to see that too. >> you must have had a lot of fun looking at pictures and videos over the year. >> absolutely. >> where did you do most of your research? >> library of congress, national archives, good folks at the national park service and white house historical association for the most part. also online newspapers are absolutely wonderful source of information especially for something like the easter egg roll where you know what day easter is in any given year, it's very easy to find the news coverage. there always was plenty of news coverage. >> do you know when the earliest photographs are from? >> the earliest photographs would be from, i would say, about the 1870s and they show children of all ages and period attire and it looks much more like sunday fineries than what we would expect, you know, current children to be wearing, big gowns, suits and ties, sometimes three-piece suits and ties. >> on little children. >> on little children. >> everybody

the library of congress? ms. grundmann: we can't. >> that's the answer, in and of itself. wille library of congress have that as less of an expense in their budget because they won't we doing that in-house anymore? have thisann: let's conversation. it's important to understand. to be clear, the library's internal process does not go away. it is available to employees. nor does the library collective-bargaining agreement go away, that they have their union. what the omnibus does is bring library employees into our process for only certain types of claims, claims associated with discrimination and family and medical leave act cases. >> how many full-time equivalents is going to be doing that? ms. grundmann: they are contractors for us. we are not bringing up some but he full-time for that. but anecdote of berkeley -- but anecdotally in having a conversation with the library, they take 50 or 60 cases a year, anh five cases going to administrative hearing. we currently taken 50 or 60 cases with five cases going to

edison's early videos actually is of the easter egg role and it's available from the library of congress and it is online. i would tear -- i would encourage everybody. >> where did you do most of your research? >> the library of congress, the to good archives come folks of the national park service and white historical association. although online newspapers are wonderful, especially for summing like the easter egg role. it is very easy to find the news coverage. >> do you know the earliest photographs were? >> the earliest would be from around the 1870's and they show children's of all ages -- children of all ages in period attire that looks more like sunday finery's than what we would expect current children to be wearing. everybody was very formal going to the white house. >> yes, but only in their attire. it was a big deal but it was also a time to have fun. hills in rolling down the cleveland administration in addition to the easter egg role and the races, there was egg croquet, egg baseball and all manner of mass was happening on the grounds. story of egg on the carpet, upholstery.

a lot of the things they did -- these are pictures from the late 1800's from the library of congress of st. petersburg, and you can get an idea of what the architecture was like back then. they would ask the government, the russian government, if they could do places like the hermitage, which has an enormous art collection. they loved art. both luisa and john quincy were fascinated. adams himself went to a factory so he could see what russian commerce really had to offer america. hoff, whichd peter half are the fountains you see here. they also visited churches. we go to services with the emperor at the palace and to see how the peasants went to church. at one particular point he thinks the diplomats are expected to be at the saints day service led by the emperor, but it is where the peasants can, as well, the common man. he shows up and he realizes he's one of the only diplomats there. he made a faux pas. he was not supposed to show up, but the russian foreign minister sees him and comes to him and he begins to explain the liturgical nature of the service. a sweeteally opportunity fo

it turns out that these papers are at the flop library of congress -- are at the library of congress. she went and interviewed washington and he sent her to interview other people. she published this follow-up story and it is good. it says, it turns out a lot of people knew elizabeth after all. and she also says that she went to these homes and found that in the homes of african-americans in washington was so much history. there were so many stories and photos and objects. and she was taken with that. diary, she said, wrote correction. she knew it was a correction. anyway, that is what spurred washington to start researching that sent himher on a broader project that became this book. you also mentioned that randall was taking a paternalistic approach to washington's book. he said it was folklore. but washington said the content was historically true. a lot of the primary sources within the homes are one thing he relied on. he also heavily relied on oral history. oral history has long faced hurdles and acceptance. on the one hand, there are concerns about accuracy. if you do not give

lillian: a historian of the library of congress. is actually the keeper of all of george washington's manuscripts at the library of congress. brian: why did you start asking the question about, would you --e, or what would it would what would it be like to have a blind eight a president? with georgetarted washington, and it occurred to me to ask the question -- i think it was just curious what would happen, and what would be revealed in the answer. julie is a very dynamic, engaging person. but i had this fear going into the presidential podcast, i was -- ted it could to easily dense and drytoo and academic, and i wanted to make sure the historians i spoke to were bringing these figures to life. i thought, i will try it out on julie and see how it goes. i said, what would it be like on a blind date with george washington, and his first response that you did not hear, you can't, he is married. i know he is married, he is dead. [laughter] i am not going on a blind date with him, but walk me through what it would be like. brian: here is

this means creators can register their works under the library of congress so that they, and their artare protected under law. >> attaining copyright is relatively easy. all you have to do is submit a work to the copyright office for a small fee. it can be done online with an electronic form. you can submit a manuscript in a simple, digital format. it's usually easy to convert and create. >> registering is important to an artist in preventing other people from copying their work and claiming it as their own. but in our technological era, copyright infringement happens commonly in ways some people do not expect -- social media posts. >> this one guy reposted one of my pictures on his instagram page. i immediately contacted him -- "delete this, or i will sue you." he actually immediately deleted it. i was pretty glad, because i actually did not have a watermark on that picture, because he stole it straight from my instagram. >> with our spontaneous urge to show friends something funny or cool, we sometimes post another person's work without regarding their rights. >> in the past, i've ha

to the man who has taken the redeye flight from california and taken a taxi directly to the library of congress. we are grateful there is as yet no 12-step program took your walter star of his research addiction. rs,aking about lincoln's ma edwin stanton, please join me in welcoming walter star. thank you for that kind introduction. start on april 14, right here in ford's theater , but listening to some of the earlier speakers i thought i should go back before april 14. let's start on april 3, 1865. a telegram arrives in the war department, a much smaller, more modest building. after four years, the union army has finally entered richmond. war flashes around the department building and the clarks run out into the streets shouting. inarge crowd has gathered front of the war department demanding a speech from stanton, the secretary of war. he stepped out overcome by emotion and he says friends and this greatzens, at --r of triumph, my heart is to almighty god for his deliverance of this nation. our thanks is due to the president, the army and navy, the gallant men who have risked their lives on t

now, historian james hudson at the library of congress has described the essential connections among religion, virtue and republican self-government that refined in the political thought of the founding, he describes this as the founders -- the founding generation's -- and it goes like this. again, he hudson is suggesting that this was a common view in the american founding. virtue and morality are necessary for free republican government. religion is necessary for virtue and morality. therefore religion is necessary for republican government. the political discourse of the founding era is replete with expressions of religion's vital contributions to a republican regime. this idea is espoused from diverse intellectual and traditional positions. david ramsey, the first major historian of the american revolution. in his book on the american revolution, he says this -- he says, remember that there can be no political happiness without liberty. there can be no liberty without morality and there can be no morality without religion, end quote. or listen to the words of benjamin rush, a sign

it turns out that these papers are at the library of congress. i was able to go and find out her side of the story. she found this out. it seemed like she was a bit abashed about this. she went and interviewed washington, and he sent her to interview other people. she published this follow-up story, and it is good. it says, it turns out a lot of people knew elizabeth after all. and also she says something i quoted in the introduction. she went to the zones and found that in the homes of african-americans in washington was so much history. there were so many stories and photos and objects. and she was taken with that. and i was interested in the fact that in her little journal, like a daily diary, she said, wrote correction. she knew it was a correction. it appeared to be just a follow-up story, but in her personal diary she said i correct. anyway, that is what spurred washington to start researching elizabeth further that sent him on a broader project that became this book. >> you also mentioned that randall was taking a bit of a paternalistic app

created the library of congress in d.c. $5,000 in funds to buy the first books. but during the war of 1812, british forces burned the capitol. including that library. thomas jefferson who was at that point a former president offered to sell his own personal collection to help rebuild it now, the library of congress is america's oldest federal cultural institution after a president took the first step to supply its books 218 years ago today. the news continues now on "your world." ♪ ♪ >> you are not going to be restarting anything. they restart it, they will have big problems. bigger than they have ever had before. and you can mark it down. they restart their nuclear program, they will have bigger problems than they have ever had before. >> the war of words in washington and new worries on wall street. president trump threatening that iran will pay the price if it restarts its nuclear program. meanwhile, investors are certainly paying the price here today as interest rates begin moving higher. hello, everyone i'm trish regan

walls from an artist who collected cartoons and donated his 30,000 cartoon collection to the library of congress. he made an arrangement with the hotel to loan them a bunch of classic caricatures from this collection. since then, i got involved in 2008 thanks to my buddy, richard thompson, when they wanted to update the caricatures to stuff that was more current. the collection mostly went back to the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's. and then there was a big gap. people were coming to the bar and the newer clients did not recognize the people from the nixon and reagan administration. they wanted people from the clinton and obama administration. that is when richard thompson, who unfortunately passed away a couple of years ago, was brought in. richard was just an astounding caricaturist. he was the top caricaturist at the time. he did a lot of stuff for new report" and world "the new yorker." richard came in with a portfolio. i came in with a pile and i got to fill in the most recent political figures. i work as a caricaturist and a political cartoonist. there is a difference. political cartoonists use

classification rules, and in part, the work of the national archives in digitizing materials, and the library of congress as well. yes, there is a lot more available and it is not just that it is available, it is how you can search it. when something is available digitally, you could search in ways you never could before. susan: are you seeing from your vantage point, a greater interest in understanding history with the combustible politics we have been going through for the past x years? james: i think you see this comfortably now. we see more historians being interviewed by media. the washington post has a new feature called "retropolis." tuesday's washington post our , conference was on the front page as part of the series this reporter has. the debate over confederate monuments brought news all to communities around the country the importance of history. you have a confederate monument, what do you do with it? you call an expert. who? a historian. i think what people realize that everything has a history. you need to bring a historian into the house. we have a session this afternoon in about an hour

are they -- are the historic records, they're now being index by a library of congress that seems kindof important. someone just went -- oh, they are. some twitter accounts not all twitter accounts not all twitters. but some are indexed. so i think the best answer is, if you want to do this job, you have to go wherever english is going. and maybe that means you study emoji because -- i'm that person who is right on the cusp there's some emoji i know with what they mean and others i don't. i'll text my kids and they'll say never text what to me ever again. i don't know. that's a long answer it a question that i -- by the book word by word, secret life of dictionaries. actually -- we'll start with the -- the man in blue and move forward. >> so i was curious about how many people do this for any one dictionary you said 45 was the biggest do people mostly go to an office now and all work in a cube call or a lot of it done remotely now? ifnlgt a lot is done remotely so industry is shrinking i think at this point there are -- maybe 30 full-time this in the country across all companies. there

. >> reporter: he's not alone in his remembrance, david johnson owes his place in the library of congress to images he shot that dr. king inspired during the civil rights movement. >> if it's had known then that i was making history. >> reporter: most of david johnson's work is color blind and very human. as dr. king went to washington, d.c. and delivered his "i have a dream" speech. david johnson was on assignment to document it. >> i was just making images that attracted me. >> reporter: some photos became iconic. this young man in abraham lincoln's lap. >> that was my lucky day. >> reporter: as for the back story. >> he was resting. he was resting. >> reporter: did he see the symbolism of where he was resting? >> i don't think so. >> reporter: as if that matters through the filter of history. >> a pastor who knew dr. king well remembers his early activism here in the bay area. reverend amos brown leads the third baptist church in san francisco, as you may know. he recalls 1958 dr. king delivering a service to the con greg gra greg -- congregation. >> it was not enough for him to stand

the wallace was from -- walls was from art wood, who ended up donating his llection to the library of congress. since then i got involved in 2018 thanks to my buddy, richard thompson when they wanted to update the caricatures to stuff that was more current. the wood collection went back to the 60's, 70's and 80's, and then there was a big gap. the thing happening in the bar was the newer clients didn't recognize the people from the nixon and reagan add strayings. so they wanted people from the clinton and obama administrations. that is when richard tom, who passed away a couple of years ago was brought information he was an astounding caricaturist. he was the top flight at the time. he did a lot of stuff for u.s. news and world report and the new yorker. so richard came in with portfolio drawings, and they got some of those, and they wanted more. my friend heck out matt, and so i got to fill in the more recent figures. i travel both words. i work in caricatures and a political cartoonist. when i am wearing my political cartoonist hat, i am really a political commentator, just like somebody who

of libraries. mr. speaker, libraries have always been a great equalizer in our society. our libraries promote knowledge is power and every american regardless of their personal life circumstances. from the magnificent of the library of congress to smalltown libraries, i wish everyone a happy national library week. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back the balance of my time. . the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from california, ms. barragan, for fife minutes. ms. barragan: i rise today in recognition of dr. willie j. hagan who is retiring after a storied career as an educator and most recently served as president of the california state university in domingo hills. i'm also proud that he's able to join us today in this chamber. he began his career at university of connecticut where he earned a ph.d. in psychology before moving to california where he became vice president of administration in cal state fullerton. during his time there he found time to earn a master of fine arts in screen writing from ucla and also write a screen play. during his tenure at cal state-dominguez hill he is worked tirelessly to advance the goals of the university by providing quality education, scholarship opportunities a

in 1945, berryman gave a large collection to the library of congress about 1,200 cartoons. and that was the largest berryman collection up until the 1990s and our collection came to us in early 1990s when clifford berryman's daughter, florence berryman, who lives in the family home in northwest washington, she passed away. and when they were cleaning out her house and preparing her possessions for auction they discovered thousands of these original pen and ink drawings in the basement in garbage bags. they almost were thrown out as trash. luckily the auction house realized their value and were going to put them up for auction and the charles inglehard foundation got wind of the sale, and a lot of the cartoons deal with congress, so they decided to purchase the collection and donate them to the u.s. senate on behalf of former majority leader mike mansfield. the idea was they would become senate records and then they would come to the national archives in the center for legislative archives and become part of the official senate collection. which they are today. the collectio

what was interesting to me i got the actual chill when i saw that in one of the notes at the library of congress that his papers because his beginnings. up the ladder began with sound and he would ultimately fund this building which is known for its sound so. attitudes forged in scotland but basically made in the united states would not occur in terms of the opportunity he was able to create for themselves i mean you could see it in the beginnings there is father was a bit of a rabble rouser you know during the beginnings of the industrial revolution and he was working with the bobbins and they were going to mechanized and he thought there's no future here for me and. there was a relative of his mother's living in pittsburgh and as so many people did my parents included after the war came to the m eighty you know and. they just happened to take the long way took ten weeks when you think about it it's extraordinary they went across the atlantic. up the hudson river across the erie canal across the great lakes and then down into pittsburgh it's extraordinary when you think about that voyage you kn

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the library of congress is cataloging tweets as not edited prose. so widespread use not just geographically, but also toneally widespread. i want to see something on the ab club and in the advocate, and i also want to see it in "the new york times" and the times literary supplement and the "wall street journal", right? so that gives me kind of a broad spread of english. sustained use. so when words come into english, they often -- and particularly when they show up in writing -- it's not like it's a straight lineup of use. it usually takes a really, really, really, really, really, really long time for those words to catch on. or the words catch on like that and then drop out of use in a couple of years. so the examples i like to point to are the indian dish corma, does everyone know what that is? you're all in portland, you have great indian food here. so it was entered into merriam-webster's collegiate dictionary in 2009, i think, but the word goes back to the 1830s. it just didn't have very much use until the really kind of the 1990s and 2000s. an

published a first edition of his narrative, first autobiography first published in 1945, the library of congress named as one of the 48 books that shaped america. when he started to teach himself to read and write he started to break free from mental bondage and unfit to be enslaved and started to ask critical questions about enslavement and asked, god, are you ready for me to be a slave the rest of my life jnkts my master goes to church every morning and cherry picks versus that justice exploiting, rape and pillage and plunder his property and i can't wrap my mind around what it know is a peaceable clinthristianity christ. why am i a slave? why do you own me? he is unfitting himself to be a slave. in the autobiography of frederick douglass into the hands of 1 million students, our plan by the end of the year, to distribute this book we want to inspire the next generation of leaders with the words of frederick douglass. being his descendants our whole life we had people of all ages and races come up to us many times with tears in their eyes because they were introduced to frederick douglass' wor

. >> the rare san francisco effort quake will end up in the library of congress. you get to see it first. >> i knew this was going to be special. >> david keane threads the projector. >> this is the way they've done it since the 1890's really. and he restores the films. the theater was built in 1913. charlie chaplain used to watch movies here. this premier is of a film nearly lost to history. >> this is the missing niles brothers film. it's been missing for over a hundred years. we know about its existence but until now we've not known where it was. >> they shot the trip down market street in the days before the fire and earthquake. >> they shot almost two hours of the film after the earthquake and none of it survives. i think this is one of the longest surviving pieces. >> the lost footage was discovered last year at a flea market in fragile condition. >> i set up a 2kib8 camera that will a single frame for each frame of the film. so 8,655 frames of film later i was able to put it on the commuter. >> decent ends are seeing its day blew. >> it's blowing my mind. i