mr. librarian, how are you? >> i'm wonderful, thank you, madam chair. >> chair fewer: yes. >> good morning, supervisors. i want to begin by thanking sev severn campbell and the board analyst, mary, for working with us. the library is in full agreement with the board analyst's recommendations. thank you for all of your support and i'm more than happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> chair fewer: thank you very much, mr. librarian, and thank you for your service. >> chair fewer, if i may make a couple comments on the public library fund report. you all should have received an updated report a few minutes ago. there are no changes that the department is not aware of. we just -- there's one recommendation that missed the cutoff, so that is included in the updated report that was sent out. and there's only one -- i just want to highlight that recommendation that was not included in the original report but was intended to and it's included in the updated is a policy recommendation. and it's recommendation

mr. librarian, we can have you come back next week after we have a discussion and also to give us a bit of time, but the rest of the recommendations, i think that -- we just received this one recommendation today. i think that it will give us some time to read it. but in the meantime i think that you are in agreement with all of the other cuts. so can the controller's office take note of the committee's intention to accept the recommendations for this department and have you come back next week. >> thank you very much. >> chair fewer: thank you for your service. and now we have the department of billin building inspections. >> good morning, supervisors, taurice madison. and thank you to the board of supervisors. and we accept the budget analyst recommendations. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. any comments or questions from my colleagues? so, mr. controller, please take note of the committee's intention to accept the recommendations for this department. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> chair fewer: thank you. rec and park is next. >> good afternoon, supervisors. or good morni

mr. librarian, do you have any comments about this (inaudible)? for the friends of the san francisco public library? >> it's an grant award. >> thank you, madam chair. supervisors, san francisco public library is extremely fortunate to have the generous support of the friends and foundation and public library. next slide, please. >> if we're working on item number 10 first. >> item number 10. ok. >> this is just i'm looking at this it looks as though what we are voting on today is just to accept a gift up to $809,000 from the san francisco public library from friends of the san francisco public library to the public library is that correct? >> yes, madam chair. >> can we open this up for public comment, please. this is for item number 10 and it's gifts from the friends of the san francisco public library. >> ok, madam chair, the library does have a presentation for the grant if you want to -- >> oh -- >> is it very long? i'm looking at this. it looks pretty self-explain tory, do you have any questions or comments it looks like an annual grant amou

we are also fortunate to have librarian of congress carla hayden hosting a conversation with mrs. obama today. nominated for this position of library of congress by president barack obama february 2016 and her nomination confirmed by the u.s. senate july 2016. sworn in as the 14th librarian of congress september 2016. carla hayden and first lady mrs. obama come together now for an in-depth conversation around her forthcoming memoir becoming and the experiences that have impacted her life, her family and her country. michelle obama. [cheers and applause] >> thank you so much there's a lot of librarians here. [laughter] you guys are looking good. [laughter] hi carla. how are you? >> there have been many thrills but to be a librarian and sitting here with you is the most. here i am the interviewer. >> just remember our days. i have known carla since i was a baby, a baby professional. you shouldn't be nervous. >> what a professional you were because the public library to come back from pittsburgh the library was part of your portfolio. >> yes it was. >> it made such a difference to hav

mrs. bush career as a teacher and librarian in particular partial to that because my wife is a teacher, her early career as librarian has helped shape her lifelong interest in letters he and education. during her tenure and white as she focused on early childhood development as an enthusiastic proponent of teacher improvement pro cam such as teach for america of the new teacher project and as first lady mrs. bush helped launch the very popular library of congress first national book festival 2001 which continues every year and attracts hundreds of thousands of people to the mall every september. in 2006 she took her passion opal to nearly 40 nations through a special summit to address the worldwide literacy crisis. for nearly three-quarters of a billion adults cannot. she's honorary ambassador for the u.n. literacy decade in the 2005 she made a historic trip to afghanistan visiting the newly opened women's teacher training institute in kabul that she helped establish. .. >> and she took friends on low-key trips to the national museum of american history and the national design museum in new

i am a librarian and of course mr. thor is very popular. just calling to let you know i'm truly enjoying the program. i have not read of your titles but i'm inspired to read them now. i basically read nonfiction, but i am going to read one of your titles. when i go to the library decided on going to pick up one. >> host: barbara come as a librarian, "spy master" comes up this week. have you already gotten requests for this book? , yes, we have. there is a waiting list. >> host: as off how does it feel? >> guest: first of all thank you for the call. libraries are such an important special people. when i look back at my summers in wisconsin at lake geneva one of my highlights you speak going to the library and checking out books that i could read for that week. librarian was my guide to another world. the books she would help you pick up. librarians are super, super important people. there are so many people have been led to my books because of wonderful librarians like barbara, and barber, but you said you are in nonfiction reader because i

mr. daniels the honoree treasure trustees of the areas truman librarian institute. you've also written a couple of books about your grandparents. book dear harry love bass. did you ever ask your grandmother about the bombing of hiroshima? >> no i did not. again, and going back to whether i ask my grandfather or grandmother. when we saw them, they were granting grappa. we saw them on family vacations. these were also vacations from school. the last thing i was looking for was another history lesson. i was out of school. my grandmother the same way. i didn't ask her about the bombings. that said, i don't think that my grandfather or my grandmother would certainly have told me anything differently than they would've told you or anyone in the audience. my father was remarkably open and consistent consistent in his views. there was nothing that family would've learned that the public would not have that either written or spoken. let me just go back for two seconds to say to joe in wilmington. it was nice to hear from someone and wilmington since i lived there for 15 year